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Amazon: Legal Woes, Crisis, and Resilience
Jyotsna Bhatnagar; Parul GuptaCase IVEY-9B21C003-ELeadership and People ManagementDuring the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeff Bezos, the chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon), became the world’s richest person by adding US$6 billion to his net worth by the end of March 2020. While the worth of other billionaires was decreasing because of the unprecedented market volatility created by the pandemic, retail sales surged to a record level for Amazon. To meet the additional workforce requirements created by the sudden rise in ...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon vs. Walmart: Using Financial Ratios to Compare Companies
Mitchell Stein; Vaughan S. Radcliffe; Vineet YagnikCase IVEY-W36678-EAccounting and Control, FinanceIn 2021, an investment management firm analyst needed to convince his portfolio manager that technology companies such as Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon) could have a strong investment thesis since they improved upon existing business models. To make his argument, he used financial ratio analysis to compare one of the portfolio manager's favourite companies, Walmart Inc. (Walmart), with a more technologically focused competitor in the retail space, Amaz...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon Shopper Panel: Paying Customers for Their Data
Ascarza, Eva; Israeli, AyeletCase HBS-521058-EMarketingThis case introduces a new Amazon program that has consumers upload their receipts from transactions outside of Amazon, in exchange for money. Through the discussion, the case aims to explore issues in customers' privacy in the digital age, the value of customers' own data, and the change in regulations aimed to protect consumers that move companies from using third party data to first party data. In addition, the case offers an opportunity to di...Starting 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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Amazon, Google, and Apple: Smart Speakers and the Battle for the Connected Home
Lal, Rajiv; Johnson, ScottCase HBS-518035-EMarketingAmazon, Google, and Apple all offer their own smart speaker. The devices represent the each firm's entry point into the connected home market. All three companies come into the space with their own strenghs and weaknesses. Who will win?Starting at €8.20
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Amazon: The Brink of Bankruptcy
Applegate, Lynda M.Case HBS-809014-EEntrepreneurshipEnables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company poised on the brink of bankruptcy, and enables discussion of how to turnaround the company and leverage proprietary assets.Starting at €8.20
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Amazon Acquires Whole Foods (B)
McDonald, Rory; Mehta, Sarah; Roseman, ShayeCase HBS-619029-EStrategyThis short case, meant for pairing with HBS case 615-013 "AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market," explores Amazon's rationale for acquiring Whole Foods.Starting at €5.74
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Amazon: Customers and Climate Change
Veena Keshav PailwarCase IVEY-9B20M164-EStrategyOn September 9, 2019, thousands of Amazon.com Inc. employees threatened to join the global climate strikes planned for the week of September 20–27, 2019. Employees were protesting the e-commerce giant's customer-centric approach and its lack of transparenStarting at €8.20
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McDonald's Corporation: Managing a Sustainable Supply Chain-From Amazon Soya to Cage Free Eggs, Teaching Note
Toffel, Michael W.Teaching Note HBS-616021-EService and Operations ManagementThis case provides an opportunity for students to consider how large, multinational corporations should respond when targeted by activists regarding environmental and social concerns in their supply chains. Greenpeace targeted McDonald's because its chicken supplier was purchasing soya (soybeans for chicken feed) that were grown on recently deforested land in the Amazon rainforest. Although its supply chain purchased a very small amount of this c...Starting at €0.00
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Amazon.com: Evolving Into Offline Retail
Won-Yong OhCase IVEY-9B18M026-EStrategyIn late 2015, Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon) opened its first brick-and-mortar Amazon Books store in the United States. Amazon had invested heavily in expanding in the United States through new projects, from establishing Amazon Prime Now to setting up Amazon Books and Amazon Go locations. By 2017, a rumour suggested that Amazon might acquire Whole Foods Market Inc., a natural and organic foods supermarket. Could Amazon be as successful in offline ret...Starting at €8.20