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- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
tremendous things,” Iansiti says. “If you go after a static, traditional environment and drive a new model of competition, you’re going to do really well. Take Google and advertising, or take Amazon and retail, and you can see...
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- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
knowledgeable salespeople with "deep expertise in the categories they served." Against Amazon and other online retailers, these advantages fade. Online retailers have appropriated the strengths of category killers, and can offer wider...
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- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
plans to colonize Mars. Would Musk be able to realize his ambitious goals or was he taking too many risks with his investors’ money? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/717431-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-046 X Fire Paintball &...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
held online retailer of shoes, clothing, and other soft-line retail categories, learned that Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its Board of Directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies. Amazon had...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
are driving the shift from bricks (“atoms”) to clicks (“bits”), the economics of “free, perfect, and instant,” and the development of platforms (think “digital environments” such as Amazon Web Services) based on such economics. Further,...
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by James Heskett
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
I wanted to know why. When colleague Axel Ockenfels and I started to look into this, we noticed that there was much less late bidding in Amazon auctions than in eBay auctions. And, at the time we compared them, those auctions had only one...
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- 06 May 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?
companies like Amazon have been contemplating. For years, logistics have been managed by principles such as that of "postponement and speculation." The idea is that to approach the best match between supply and demand at a...
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by James Heskett
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
compete against the customer's manifest priorities. Instead, he said, facilitate them. In the electronic learning industry, for example, textbook publishers have invested great sums into creating elaborate products with Web links that add to the student's knowledge of,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
hedge fund, an Amazon employee focused on retail data, and a forecaster at General Electric," says HBS David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Marco Iansiti, who serves as faculty chair of the initiative and head of the...
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- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing field is wide open, with...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
You want people to touch your product and actually get the brand experience. You could get to a point where stores like Best Buy become just showrooms and fulfillment is done by Amazon because they are much more efficient at it. I could...
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- 07 Nov 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Less Becoming More?
Amazon stimulates sales by its listing of thousands of books that would otherwise be out of print, given their meager sales through traditional channels. Internet technology and supply chain efficiencies have made this possible. The...
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- 17 Nov 2020
- In Practice
How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other
downturn will mean lower overall demand. And increased constrained access to physical stores will lead to fewer, shorter visits. Shopping volumes will continue to shift to e-commerce, to the benefit of Amazon and Walmart.com. While I...
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- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
affected by COVID positively—namely, Walmart and Amazon. "I know those are not always companies that people view favorably in terms of work, but in the last 10 years, Walmart has been an amazing innovator in the space in terms of skills development and upskilling its...
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- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413120-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-025 Amazon No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/514025-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 513-053 Eko: Mobile Banking...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 118-074 Whole Foods Under Amazon In August 2017, Amazon acquired Whole Foods Market for $13.7 billion. Whole Foods was...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
says. “We wanted to see if just making the notion salient that your donation could be better would be sufficient to trigger an excuse not to give at all.” Using the online marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk, Exley and Kessler set up an...
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by Michael Blanding
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
that enable them to predict new patterns for the future. ”We are in a new industrial revolution led by algorithms” We have all seen the process in action, whether it’s Amazon telling us we “may also like” to buy an Instant Pot...
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- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
online from folks like Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime, which have all left commercials behind in favor of a subscription model. "The whole issue of cutting the cord is a huge risk for them," says Teixeira. It's likely a sign of things to...
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by Michael Blanding
- 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