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  • 24 Sep 2018
  • News

Why Bad “Plot Twists” Ruin Brand Stories

  • 05 Jul 2018
  • News

Independent Streak: Against the odds, small book stores are on the rise

  • 31 Oct 2018
  • News

Decline of Book is a Fake News

  • 16 Oct 2018
  • News

Why Is Amazon Going Crazy with Brick-and-Mortar?

  • 21 Jun 2018
  • News

Six Books Worth Reading This Summer

  • 09 Mar 2018
  • News

Why Is A Harvard Business Professor Is Studying Independent Bookstores?

  • March 1997 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

Amazon.com (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport
Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, an Internet-based bookseller, has created one of the most successful ventures for electronic commerce on the Web. With revenue growing at a pace of 30% per month, Bezos attributes the success of Amazon.com to its value... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Retail Industry
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Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Dickson Louie. "Amazon.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 897-128, March 1997. (Revised April 1998.)
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • News

Harvard Historian Nancy Koehn on Amazon's Tentacular Reach

  • 16 Apr 2020
  • News

Is This the End of the Indie Bookstore?

  • 12 Aug 2018
  • News

As Barnes & Noble Struggles to Find Footing, Founder Takes Heat

  • 23 Jul 2019
  • News

Barnes & Noble Sold. Now what?

  • 13 Mar 2018
  • News

Shakespeare and Company is Coming Back to the West Side and the Village

  • 07 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Vishal Gaur, Johnson, Cornell University

  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

Even as academic journals and business sections of bookstores fill up with titles devoted to teams, teamwork, and team players, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson wonders if many might be barking up the wrong tree. "I've... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

slickness. Simple and clear go a long way." On Jack Welch: "His is the most astonishing story of a business leader. It's unbelievable." Photo courtesy of HBS Communications A stroll through the business section of any large bookstore... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Every Trick in the Book

smell, would go. Behind the brown paper that covered the store’s windows for several months that year, Brody was building a new kind of brick-and-mortar bookstore for the age of Amazon. When BookHampton opened its doors in 1971, it wasn’t... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 06 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Mechanisms of Technology Re-Emergence and Identity Change in a Mature Field: Swiss Watchmaking, 1970-2008

Keywords: by Ryan Raffaelli; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 22 Feb 2024
  • News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

nearby Borders bookstore revealed a three-year life expectancy with no available treatment options. And trying to navigate the complexities of the American health care system—bouncing from pathologist to a medical oncologist to... View Details
  • 11 Jul 2019
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

With the help of LEGO bricks, business executives discover how design principles can serve as building blocks to create a great customer experience. How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.comIndy booksellers have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

Works on the subject of leadership weigh down bookstore shelves the world over. Tomes tell you how to be a 30-second manager, how to inspire your employees like Churchill, and the three keys to "strength-based leadership."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
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