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Amazon: Combatting Antitrust Litigations
Arpita Agnihotri; Saurabh BhattacharyaCase IVEY-9B20M219-EStrategyOn July 29, 2020, Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon), testified before a United States House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial, and Administrative Law that was investigating the company for engagiStarting at €8.20
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Fastenal: Losing its Fast Growth to Amazon Business
Arpita Agnihotri; Saurabh BhattacharyaCase IVEY-9B17M170-EStrategyFastenal was one of the largest U.S. industrial supply companies, with the highest operating margin among its competitors. It was known and awarded for its innovative industrial vending solutions. With the launch of Amazon Business in the industrial distribution space in 2012, Fastenal’s performance began to decline. In 2017, Amazon Business obtained patents for a drone-based delivery system. This, combined with Amazon’s power of low cost, raised...Starting at €8.20
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Sizmek Chapter 11: Surviving Walled Gardens in Their Ad Tech Empire
Israeli, Ayelet; Tauro, Danilo; Gulick, SarahCase HBS-520087-EMarketingThis case provides a post-mortem of the advertising technology (adtech) company Sizmek. Sizmek grew via multiple acquisitions, with the vision of becoming an integrated adtech company that could leverage AI to buy digital media, while creating and serving display and video content. At its peak, one of its acquisitions had an IPO valuation of almost 1 billion dollars. However, Sizmek struggled with an integration that was taking longer than expect...Starting at €8.20