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- 26 Oct 2015
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Ron Johnson’s Post-Penney’s Rebirth
customer experience," Johnson tells the magazine. "It’s better than a store, it’s the same price as online, and it’s faster than even Amazon Prime." Johnson also recounts the story behind his 2013 exit from JC Penney: The changes,...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Action Plan: Whole Sale
of Walmart’s beauty business. Balbale was a vice president at the Vitamin Shoppe in the mid-2010s when he saw Amazon and startup e-tailers moving into the wellness category. The competition inspired him to transition into the e-commerce...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Monaco's Digital Transformation
launch 5G, and it recently introduced Monaco Cloud, the software, services, and security systems that power the country’s computers and facilitate data storage. While it was created in partnership with Amazon and Dell, Monaco Cloud is...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies
machine-learning algorithms running on massive on-demand cloud-computing platforms like Amazon Web Services. At the same time, a trifecta of trends—namely, the widespread reliance on just-in-time inventory management; the ongoing...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart
was, what do we know something about?” The former executive at Amazon and Microsoft knew plenty about tech and business. Risher’s abundant experience and knowledge helped him build out the foundational Worldreader app. He also had...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Alumni Excursions Bhutan Oct 2004 South Africa and Namibia Dec 2004 Swiss Alps Feb 2005 Costa Rica April 2005 Galapagos and Amazon August 2005 New Zealand Dec 2005 For more information, contact alumni_travel@hbs.edu. View the HBS Alumni...
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- 15 Aug 2021
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You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America
spend money in a particular area (travel, tech, health) and guide them to their purchases, while taking a cut.” The Times piece argues that the Red Ventures’ success represents “a challenge to the oligopolistic dominance of Amazon over...
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- 01 Sep 2018
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Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
to last-mile business from FedEx, UPS, and Amazon. Unfortunately, the online retailer is piloting its own delivery service that would put it in direct competition with the Postal Service. And Amazon isn’t alone in the search for last-mile...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Two years later, Lightning Systems was a leader in electric buses and trucks, with fleet orders for companies such as Amazon and DHL “That is what patient investing and close work with companies allows,” Fenwick-Smith says of Aravaipa’s...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2018
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Case Study: Tip the Scale
find another way to scale an assembly-line process? The Answers: Has Walden considered an Amazon approach, with additional procedures for a customer’s second and possibly third choices, in case inventory does not match a customer’s first...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
movie theaters did with the advent of television. Myth #2: There are no barriers to entry on the Internet. What about the huge sums, asked Bezos, that Amazon and other e-commerce companies invest in their businesses? Barriers to entry are...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth
introduction of Amazon Web Services in early 2006. This was the defining moment when the cost of starting consumer internet businesses really plummeted. That fact was very useful in rationalizing other things we saw happening: VC...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Case Study: Welcome Aboard
—Shereen Shermak, HBS Rock Center Entrepreneur-in Residence and CEO of cryptography company Nth Party Remote-first labor is the greatest boon to software startups since Amazon Web Services. No role in a SaaS startup, from engineering to...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
stick needs to be emphasized a little bit more. Unilever announced that they're going to spend a billion euros attempting to align their products with their customer's values. They're spending that money on ways to cut fossil fuels from their detergents. In response to...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Case Study: Glass Half Full
Amazon and relying instead on Shopify as an online storefront and on ShipBob for fulfillment. Then came the cold shower of reality: Customer acquisition beyond Amazon can prove very expensive. He decided to...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Pricing Paradise
time to complete it, according to an audit). “We can never fully value natural capital,” she adds, citing the Amazon rain forest’s “carbon sink” role as an example. Still she hopes that providing a wider lens for viewing the parks’ total...
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Julia Hanna
- 18 Apr 2011
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Capitalism Meets Conservation
Adams: A market-based solution to conservation. Warren Adams (MBA ’95) is making conservation a profitable business in Patagonia. Adams, who sold his pioneering social networking startup PlanetAll to Amazon for $100 million in stock in...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Screen Grab
(Tambor) coming out to his family as transgender, was only available via streaming to members of Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The show also took home the award for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, marking the first time an...
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