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Automated Hiring at Amazon
Wicks, Andrew C.; Budd, Linnea P.; Moorthi, Ryan A.; Botha, Helet; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0470-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn this fictionalized case, the protagonist is the director of talent and recruitment at Amazon and had been in charge of developing an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tool that could shape the future of recruiting practices throughout the world. However, she begins to question the ethical implications of this tool. While the employees hired via this AI tool were performing exceptionally well, almost all of them were male, and she wonders how...Starting at €8.20
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Rekindling the Online Grocery Market (Spanish version)
McDonald, Rory; Christensen, Clayton M.; Yang, Robin; Hollingsworth, TyCase HBS-617S07StrategyMore than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery-delivery service, AmazonFresh, in Seattle, in 2007; five years later, the company has made significant progress. The case traces the evolution of AmazonFresh's business model and describes the operating capabilities necessar...Starting at €8.20
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AmazonFresh: Rekindling the Online Grocery Market
McDonald, Rory; Christensen, Clayton M.; Yang, Robin; Hollingsworth, TyCase HBS-615013-EStrategyMore than a decade after the high-profile failures of several early online grocers, grocery remains the largest single U.S. retail category and one of the few that has not yet migrated online. Amazon began testing its grocery-delivery service, AmazonFresh, in Seattle, in 2007; five years later, the company has made significant progress. The case traces the evolution of AmazonFresh's business model and describes the operating capabilities necessar...Starting at €8.20
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Discovery Skill #5: Experimenting-How Your Willingness to Try New Things, Take Something Apart, or Build a Prototype Boosts Your Power to Innovate
Dyer, Jeffrey H.; Gregersen, Hal B.; Christensen, Clayton M.Book Chapter HBS-8378BC-EForget the lab coat, the Petri dish, and all those hazardous chemicals. Innovators can experiment everywhere, everyday, with whatever materials they have at hand. In this chapter, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregerson, and Clayton Christensen discuss the many forms experimenting can take, from hands-on tinkering to hypothetical musings, and narrow them down to three styles for approaching the process yourself. The best part of this discovery skill is ...Starting at €8.20
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Putting the Innovator's DNA into Practice: Processes-How Innovative Leaders Institute Processes That Encourage the Discovery Skills of Disruptive Innovation
Dyer, Jeffrey H.; Gregersen, Hal B.; Christensen, Clayton M.Book Chapter HBS-8385BC-EIn the free market, some companies inevitably forge ahead, leaving their competition in the dust. What's more surprising is that once on top, many of them stay there. How do these winners in the race for success continue to outrun the pack? In this chapter, authors Jeff Dyer, Hal Gregerson, and Clayton Christensen share an easy-to-follow recipe for innovation: incorporate processes that encourage discovery and the exchange of ideas. They discuss ...Starting at €8.20