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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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SAP 2014: Reaching for the Cloud
Lakhani, Karim R.; Iansiti, Marco; Fisher, NoahCase HBS-614052-EService and Operations ManagementIn May 2014, Bill McDermott will become the sole CEO of SAP AG, the world leader in the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) field. The case occurs in January 2014 at SAP's investors meeting, at a time when the company's stock is near record high. A 2010 strategy committed the company to a transition to cloud computing. The main driver behind this transition was the development of SAP HANA, an in-memory computing technology that combined database, ...Starting at €8.20
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Managing Our Hub Economy
Iansiti, Marco; Lakhani, Karim R.Article HBS-R1705F-EInformation TechnologiesA small number of digital superpowers--Alibaba, Amazon, Microsoft, and others--have become "hub firms" because they control access to billions of mobile customers coveted by all kinds of product and service providers. These hubs drive increasing returns to scale and claim a disproportionate share of the value being created in the global economy. The authors argue that the hub economy will continue to spread across more industries, concentrating m...Starting at €8.20