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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
downgraded its sales forecast for the coming year, suggesting sales would now be flat. Meanwhile, online retailer Amazon was growing rapidly and, despite being less than one-quarter of the size of Walmart, now boasted a higher market...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2019
- News
The 19 Musts of 2019
“After 66 countries, I’m a firm believer in the Visited app, which allows you to easily plot and plan the expansion of your horizons.” Courtesy source Courtesy source —Kwame Jackson (MBA 2000), speaker, entrepreneur, and consultant MUST DOWNLOAD View Details
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
become the Amazon of freelance labor, and transforming its business model from a marketplace to software-as-a-service (SaaS). Each of the three paths was risky and required financial and human resource investment. Could and should the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
they experience the cultural, sexual, and student revolutions and the music of the age. The Inner Lives of Markets: How People Shape Them—And They Shape Us by Ray Fisman (PhDBE 1998) and Tim Sullivan (PublicAffairs) Breakthrough companies like View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Faculty Spotlight: Professor Jurgen Weiss
potentially make electric cars more common and faster than we thought. Can you walk me through it? Jurgen Weiss: Companies like Amazon or FedEx or UPS that own all the delivery trucks look much more closely at the total cost of ownership....
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Amazon books on its site. The affiliate then receives a commission for books Amazon sells through these links. Barter exchanges, also called link exchanges, entail the trading (with no money exchanged) of...
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Susan Young
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
structures in the European Union and Japan. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707471 McDonald's Corp.: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain Harvard Business School Case 907-414 McDonald's seeks to learn from a successful...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
accuracy.) The researchers also hired a team of workers through the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a popular source of data processing assistance. The workers examined the property photos on each listing and rated...
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- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
ASOS was large by online standards, traditional fashion retailers were building their own online sales capabilities, and Amazon was expanding its apparel offering. Meanwhile, new online competitors were emerging at a rapid rate. After...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
consumer demand across the world. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/619008-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 619-029 Amazon Acquires Whole Foods (B) This short case, meant for pairing with HBS No. 615-013,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Online AI Course | HBS Online
President and General Manager of Machine Learning Services, Amazon AI Dr. Gina Neff, Professor of Technology and Society, Oxford Internet Institute and the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Professor of...
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- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
discounts and Amazon encouraged consumers to compare prices using smart phones, Best Buy was becoming a showroom for lower cost retail models. International expansion was struggling and domestic sales of digital televisions were cooling....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
risk-adjusted outcomes? Morrell: Look, it’s easy to understand why the Valley model is viewed as the ideal. Facebook is worth some $720 billion. Amazon is worth $1.6 trillion. Those are gaudy, attractive destinations for any startup....
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Commencement 2013 Address | About
existed. The people leading these firms are HBS alumni who literally created the field. That may sound astonishing today, but it’s not that unusual. If you look at some of the most popular employers today, you’ll see names like Google and View Details
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
corporate explorer. Differentiate between three innovation phases—ideate, incubate, and scale—and what constitutes the successful execution of each. Highlights Dr. Yoshinori Hirai, current CEO and former CTO, AGC Show Hide Details Concepts Building an Explore Function...
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- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
were preparing to go back to school after COVID lockdowns, they made a decision as a family that Toedebusch would leave his job as a marketing director at Amazon and spend time as a stay-at-home parent so Bond could focus more intently on...
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- 28 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #4: Erika Myers, World Resources Institute Ross Center for Sustainable Cities
Likewise, major fleet operators, like Amazon, Fedex and UPS, offer the perfect scenario for EVs. As Erika noted, “They typically have fixed and shorter routes that work well with battery life.” Indeed, in 2019, Amazon pledged to be carbon...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
what the consumer wants at the end of the day. If I can order bird seed with three clicks because I just feel like it and my mobile app on Amazon allows me to do that and my card's connected, why can't you do that in sports? So those are...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
by Alex Sherman and Mike Sherman (MBA 1986) Amazon Digital Services LLC This book provides 52 real-life anecdotes that illustrate important learnings about customer analytics. It draws from the worlds of big data and customer insights to...
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- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
come from discovering a new market, finding a new need, and meeting that for the first time. That's what Amazon did, that's what eBay did, and I think that's what we've done. Sahlman: So there are big payoffs, and there are little...
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