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Nemus: Can Non-Fungible Tokens Save the Amazon Rainforest?
Ning Su; Labiba IslamCase IVEY-W34483-EInformation Technologies, StrategyIn March 2022, Nemus, an environmental planning, development, and sustainability consultancy based in Lisbon, Portugal, released a series of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) through its Nemus Earth initiative with the goal of supporting reforestation in the Amazon rainforest. The company purchased at-risk land in rainforests, created collectible NFTs, and used proceeds from the NFT sales to support reforestation and economic and social development in t...Starting at €8.20
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Nemus: Can Non-Fungible Tokens Save the Amazon Rainforest? - Teaching Note
Ning Su; Labiba IslamTeaching Note IVEY-W34484-EInformation Technologies, StrategyTeaching note for product W34483.Starting at €0.00
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The Entrepreneur's Dilemma: Alibaba, Tencent and Amazon as e-Commerce Platforms
Ning Su; Yulin Fang; Haibin Yang; Yukun Yang; Xin QiuCase IVEY-9B15E015-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyA nascent women’s apparel online store on Tmall, China's largest business-to-consumer retail platform operated by Alibaba Group, was just beginning to establish itself on the online market utilizing the tools and services provided by Tmall to develop and operate its business. Within four months after the business was launched, Tmall unexpectedly released a new policy which significantly increased the annual service fee and cash deposit for indivi...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon.com, Inc: The AI Transformation
Samila, Sampsa; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1724-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyThis case describes the development and application of AI at Amazon. This case has been used to discuss in class the wide range of AI applications at Amazon, the competitive effects of those AI applications, the process to develop those AI applications, and the current state of Amazon organization.Starting at €8.20
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Amazon.com: Supply Chain Management
P. Fraser Johnson; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B18D017-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Marketing, Service and Operations ManagementBy early 2018, Seattle-based Amazon.com Inc. (Amazon), one of the world’s most valuable companies and the largest online retailer in the world, had grown dramatically since its beginnings in 1994. The company that had started as an online bookseller now sStarting at €8.20
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The Impact Of Digital Technologies On The Paid Content Market: Examining The Netflix Paradigm
Sood, Sanjay; Corredoira, Loreto; Urgellés, Alicia Mª; Villanueva, JulianTechnical Note MN-384-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and Communication, MarketingThe arrival of digital distributors such as Hulu, Netflix and iTunes to the digital media landscape has brought about substantial changes to the television and movie industry. While the observed growth of the new streaming models is definitely encouraging, the question remains as to whether the new media companies will be able to deliver a significant return on investment. This technical note attempts to summarize the advances of the television a...Starting at €8.20
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How to Win with Machine Learning
Agrawal, Ajay; Gans, Joshua; Goldfarb, AviArticle HBS-R2005L-EInformation TechnologiesMany companies can dramatically improve their products and services by using machine learning--an application of artificial intelligence that involves generating predictions from data inputs. Amazon, Google, and other tech giants are already experts at taStarting at €8.20
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Olapic on Amazon.com's Cloud
Sieber, Sandra; Zamora, Javier; Sek, Tomasz; Goetschi, BeatCase SI-182-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeOn the morning of April 21, 2011, Alex Dantart, CTO of Olapic, was about to run the final testing of his New York-based IT start-up company's new service, uPhoto. The launch date of this innovative photo crowdsourcing service commissioned by Olapic's first corporate client, the newspaper the New York Daily News (NYDN), was slated for the end of April. Although it seemed that the Internet connection was working, Dantart was puzzled when he realize...Starting at €8.20
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Netflix: from DVD-by-mail to streaming
Lago, Alejandro; Moscoso, Philip; Sastre Boquet, IsaacExercise PE-84-EInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementSince its foundation in 1997 Netflix has been a major success story. For the year 2020 the company expected to achieve revenues of around 25 billion dollars and 200 million customers in 190 countries. This exercise provides information on how Netflix's business models has developed over the years. The objective is to analyze the digital transformation of the streaming model and its sustainability going forward, as it faces competitors like Disney...Starting at €8.20
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Mafiaboy
Derrick NeufeldCase IVEY-9B10E020-EInformation TechnologiesThis case opens with a fictitious yet common situation of a corporate executive who is uncertain how to respond to a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack. It provides some anecdotes and statistics relating to DDoS attacks, and then briefly tells the story of Michael Calce, nicknamed Mafiaboy, who as a young teen effectively launched attacks that shut down companies such as Amazon, CNN, Dell, eBay and Yahoo! The basic DDoS process is explai...Starting at €8.20