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Amazon: Cult or Culture
Groysberg, Boris; Abbott, Sarah L.; Gregg, TriciaCase HBS-421008-ELeadership and People ManagementAmazon was one of the first entrants in e-commerce. Under the leadership of founder Jeff Bezos, Amazon had expanded beyond books to manufacturing and selling a wide range of products and services globally. Bezos had built a customer-centric culture that permeated all aspects of the company. As Amazon continued to grow and expand into new business areas, would it be able to maintain its culture and practices? How much of Amazon's success depended ...Starting at €8.20
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Amazon as an Employer
Jyotsna Bhatnagar; Shweta Jaiswal ThakurCase IVEY-9B16C006-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People ManagementAmazon was the biggest Internet-based retailer in the United States and had frequently been featured on lists of the most admired companies. In 2015, The New York Times published an article that portrayed Amazon as a ruthless employer with brutal human resource management practices and a toxic work atmosphere. Employees were divided in their opinions: some found the culture invigorating and others found it hard to survive in. Leaders in the indus...Starting at €8.20
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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 as an Employer - Teaching Note
Jyotsna Bhatnagar; Shweta Jaiswal ThakurTeaching Note IVEY-8B16C006-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B16C006.Starting at €0.00
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Amazon: Legal Woes, Crisis, and Resilience - Teaching Note
Parul Gupta; Jyotsna BhatnagarTeaching Note IVEY-8B21C003-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B21C003.Starting at €0.00
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Amazon.com, Inc: la transformación mediante IA
Samila, Sampsa; Sastre Boquet, IsaacCase SM-1724Information Technologies, Innovation and Change, Leadership and People Management, StrategyEste caso describe el desarrollo y utilización de la IA en Amazon. Este caso ha sido usado en clase para discutir el amplio abanico de aplicaciones de IA en Amazon, los efectos competitivos de estas aplicaciones, el proceso para desarrollar estas aplicaciones, y el estado actual de la organización de Amazon.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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El sí institucional: la entrevista HBR a Jeff Bezos
Bezos, Jeff; Kirby, Julia; Stewart, Thomas A.Article HBS-R0710CLeadership and People ManagementDesde su fundación, en 1995, de Amazon.com audaces a menudo han dejado observadores rascándose la cabeza, si no es la predicción de la desaparición de la empresa. ¿Por qué abrir una plataforma minorista propietaria efectiva a la competencia de los vendedores de terceros? ¿Por qué herramientas de maquillaje que Amazon desarrollados para su propio uso a disposición de otros desarrolladores de sitios web? (¿Por qué, para el caso, colocar comentarios...Starting at €8.20
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Institutional Yes: The HBR Interview with Jeff Bezos
Bezos, Jeff; Kirby, Julia; Stewart, Thomas A.Article HBS-R0710C-ELeadership and People ManagementSince its founding, in 1995, Amazon.com's bold moves have often left observers scratching their heads, if not predicting the company's demise. Why open up an effective proprietary retail platform to competition from third-party sellers? Why make tools that Amazon developed for its own use available to other website developers? (Why, for that matter, post negative reviews of your products?) Two HBR editors interviewed Bezos, the founder and CEO, t...Starting at €8.20
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Talent Management and the Future of Work
Kerr, William R.; Ng, GorickCase HBS-820084-ELeadership and People ManagementThe nature of work is changing-and it is changing rapidly. Few days go by without industry giants such as Amazon and AT&T announcing plans to invest billions of dollars towards retraining nearly half of their respective workforces for jobs of the future. What changes lurking around the corner are Amazon and AT&T seeing? What tools do managers have to confront the accelerating change? How should talent management and workplace design evolve for th...Starting at €8.20