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- 20 Nov 2017
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How Independent Bookstores Have Thrived in Spite of Amazon.com
- 02 Mar 2016
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Coveted Job Title for M.B.A.s: Product Manager
- 08 Nov 2017
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China's Tencent buys about 12% of Snapchat maker Snap
- 25 Aug 2018
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'Amazon effect' could have impact on inflation dynamics: paper
- 10 Oct 2018
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Amazon’s $15 Minimum Wage Might Cost Some Workers
- 29 Dec 2021
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Should Retailers Split E-Commerce From Stores? A High-Level Debate
- 07 May 2021
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A Best Buy CEO on What It Takes to Fix a Struggling Retailer
- 01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
credit cards, online shopping, banking, and the Rakuten Golden Eagles baseball team. With 10,000 employees worldwide, Rakuten currently has a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion. It is the number one e-commerce company in Japan and competes globally with...
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- 01 Feb 2002
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Top Ten Cases: Research from Around The World
publication date) sold between twenty and thirty thousand copies in fiscal year 2001. “Leadership Online: Barnes & Noble vs. Amazon.com (A),” by P. Ghemawat and B. Baird (9-798-063), 2000 “Dell Online,” by V.K. Rangan and M. Bell...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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What’s On?
KILAR After working at Amazon.com for nine years, in 2007 Jason Kilar (MBA ’97) became CEO of Hulu, the service that brings popular television programming and movies to computers via high-quality streaming video. Hulu, free and...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Empowering Japan through e-commerce
he developed a web-based shopping mall—Rakuten, which roughly means “optimism”—often called the Amazon.com of Japan. “We created an online marketplace where customers can interact with shop owners, and we empower our merchants to build...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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A World of Reading
two and a former Amazon.com executive. When he went on a world tour with his family, he saw a padlock on an unused library at an orphanage in Ecuador. “It was my ah-ha! moment, when I realized we really can change the world,” says Risher....
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- 01 Apr 2000
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At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
Unable to attend this year's Cyberposium because of the impending birth of his first child, Amazon.com founder and CEO Jeff Bezos delivered the February event's keynote address from Seattle. Appearing on a large video screen in Burden...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Learning to Speak the Language of Business
companies with a commanding presence in their home markets. But to call Mikitani’s company, Rakuten, the Amazon.com of Japan would overlook fundamental differences for customers and merchants alike. “We created a real online marketplace...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Notebook
Amazon.com of telecom, but we hadn’t raised enough money to build such a big brand. We decided instead to license our software applications — made to process digital-service transactions — to retailers like Best Buy, Circuit City, and...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Mobile robots revolutionize order fulfillment
launch Kiva Systems in 2003. “We decided products that could walk and talk on their own would be the best way to solve the problem,” says Mountz, who continues as CEO of the company he sold to Amazon.com in 2012. (Published April 2014)
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- 01 Sep 2013
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The New Rules of E-Commerce
customers. The third largest e-commerce marketplace in the world, behind Amazon.com and eBay, Rakuten businesses also include financial services, e-books, travel, and a professional baseball team. As Mikitani details in his recent book,...
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- 22 Nov 2011
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A Storybook Beginning
the marketing visionary who helped Amazon.com expand its horizons beyond books, Risher is now putting his imagination to work on finding better ways to bring books to children worldwide. As cofounder of the nonprofit Worldreader, the...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
presentations. Kawasaki's wry observations of the current business scene were relayed with self-deprecating humor and great panache. His list of the "Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs" included: In year three, we're going to do $75 million ("No one ever believes that");...
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