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13 Aug 2018
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Under CEO Hubert Joly, Best Buy Moving Forward In The Age Of Amazon

04 Apr 2018
News

Why Big Business Isn't Defending Amazon Against Trump

29 Jan 2020
Podcast

Beyond tax breaks and subsidies: Virginia’s Amazon gambit

HBS alum Stephen Moret led Virginia’s winning proposal for Amazon’s 2019 HQ2 expansion. A crucial factor in the Commonwealth’s success was its billion-dollar commitment to developing talent, particularly in computer science and engineering. In beating out states that... View Details

10 Oct 2019
News

Amazon wants the public to know its warehouses are fun enough for the Girl Scouts

28 Oct 2024
News

Why Some Retail Has Been Resilient Against Amazon

10 Aug 2016
News

The Man Who Put Amazon on Cloud Nine

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

with Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf of MIT Sloan School of Management. The researchers focus on one of the most important technological shifts in recent years—the introduction of Amazon... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

2024
Case

EPCorp: Sell on Amazon or Invest in Our Data?

By: Jacob M. Cook

Amidst a history of exponential growth, Electronic Products Company (EPCorp) finds itself at a crossroads as its once thriving retail presence faces a downturn, despite hefty investments into a promising new direct-to-consumer e-commerce platform. Shivani, EPCorp s... View Details

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18 Sep 2017
News

Best Buy’s Secrets for Thriving in the Amazon Age

31 Jan 2018
Blog Post

Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

At Amazon, Tiffany Nida (HBS MBA 2012) leads a fifteen-person team in her current role as Senior Manager, Product Management, in one of the company’s frontier business segments, Amazon Transportation. Her five-and-a-half year tenure... View Details

Keywords: Technology

31 Jul 2023
News

Why Better Pay Didn’t Stop Amazon Employees from Trying to Unionize

February 2024
Supplement

Enhancing the Amazon Alexa Conversation with Ads: PR/FAQ Exercise

By: Sara McKinley Torti

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16 May 2012
News

Are Amazon Reviewers Usurping the Role of 'Professional' Critics?

09 Apr 2013
News

Pourquoi Amazon a réussi là où Sony a échoué

28 Apr 2019
News

How One Independent Bookstore Succeeds in the Amazon Age

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

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Retail

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

the visitor commended class members for the depth of their analysis—then chided them for their limited vision. Of course, the company was Amazon and the visitor was Jeff Bezos. And his own view for the company was nothing less than “sell... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

21 Jan 2018
News

How to Run a Bookstore in the Amazon Era

08 Dec 2017
News

Why Independent Bookstores Work in the Age of Amazon

21 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

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