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- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
Amazon.com: The Brink of Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 809-014 Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
Much has been written about the long tail phenomenon in the entertainment industries. Long-tail enthusiasts claim that low-selling books, CDs, and movies, which are not available in brick-and-mortar stores, will collectively take up a majority share of the market over... View Details
- 21 Jun 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Merchant or Two-Sided Platform?
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212070-PDF-ENG eBay, Inc. and Amazon.com (A) Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Anant ThakerHarvard Business School Case 712-405 This case has been designed to explore strategic interactions among... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jun 2021
- Interview
Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ron Lovett
Our guest is Amy Edmondson - Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School. Amy has authored multiple books, including her most recent, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation and... View Details
"Harvard Business School: How to Build Fearless Organizations." No. 51. Scaling Culture (podcast), June 16, 2021.
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2532613 Competing with Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com By: Zhu, Feng, and Qihong Liu Abstract—Platform owners sometimes enter complementors' product spaces to compete against them directly. Prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
PublicationsIndispensable: When Leaders Really Matter Author:Gautam Mukunda Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2012 Abstract Will your next leader be insignificant-or indispensable? The importance of leadership and the impact of individual leaders has long... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
of Enron's conduct and performance, is the missing link in a full understanding of Enron's collapse and its lessons for the leaders of 21st-century business enterprise. Innovation Corrupted at Harvard University Press: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/SALINN.html... View Details
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
category levels, which over time would destroy the economics of the entire store. Amazon.com and other e-commerce players did a tremendous job focusing on goods and categories that shoppers were now willing to buy via the Internet, such... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
online shoppers, fulfilling Hagiu and Wright's definition. Amazon's e-commerce website encompasses multiple models, which place it somewhere along the MSP-reseller continuum. Amazon.com is a pure MSP when it offers products that are sold... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?
iPhoto Jeff Bezos, visiting a Harvard Business School classroom 21 years ago, told skeptical students his goal with Amazon.com was to "sell everything to everyone everywhere." Even dog food? students wondered, which would... View Details
- 01 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil
building a better car. When Amazon.com bested Barnes & Noble on the Internet, among B&N's responses was to sue Amazon, alleging fraudulent advertising. Then the laggard company enters phase three: Cosmetic change. Executives... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
Amazon.com is taking an interesting approach to its birthday this year. The company is throwing itself a party where all its Prime customers get the gifts. Amazon Prime Day is slated for July 15th, "a one-day shopping event with more... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
commoditization continue to drive shifts in the value chain. The case examines the commoditization cycle and contrasts integrated solutions such as the iPod-iTunes software-iTunes Music Store with emerging competition from other MP3 players and the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2015
- Research Event
When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms
Complementors: An Empirical Look at Amazon.com,” co-written with Qihong Liu, an associate professor of economics at the University of Oklahoma. In June 2013, Zhu and Liu identified 163,853 products for sale by third-party retailers via Amazon’s Marketplace that were... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Delivering Information Services: A 30-Year Perspective
don't "get." They put up a web site that anyone can access, but it's hollow; there is nothing there other than some financials and a picture of the company's headquarters. They haven't understood how to create the store like View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
As big box bookstores Barnes & Noble and Borders spread across the landscape in the 1990s, retail observers sounded the death knell for small, independent booksellers. But they had no idea of the onslaught that was coming. Amazon.com... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
Walmart, to Google, and to Amazon.com is the use of information," Cutler said. "They incentivize to use good services and not just more services." He added that hospitals in general need to take much more advantage of... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
environmental service provider goes through major changes to offer integrated solutions and reach out to new countries. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/717505-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 718-481 Walmart Inc. takes on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
sustainable business model. Q: Who are some current business leaders you see that could be strong role models for the airlines? A: Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com has been a maverick in the online retailing industry for a number of years. Amazon... View Details