Harvard Business

JUNE 19, 2017

The move raised the question faced first by booksellers, then the rest of retail, and now seemingly everyone: How can you compete with the retail giant? Amazon’s grand ambition was on display last week with the news that it will acquire Whole Foods for $13.7 billion dollars.

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MishTalk

JULY 10, 2014

online retailer. The new law, which went into effect Thursday morning, essentially forbids online booksellers from applying government-regulated discounts to the cover prices of books. We have repeatedly denounced the ''dumping'' and unfair competition by online retailers, particularly Amazon." Amazon.com Inc.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2016

Fast-forward more than a century to Amazon, founded as an online bookseller, in 1994. For example, IKEA, the now-ubiquitous flat-pack furniture retailer, faced a choice to smother or fuel a platform when IKEAhackers.net went mainstream. Insight Center. The Platform Economy. Sponsored by Accenture.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Consider the steady strategic morphing of Amazon from online bookseller to global retail powerhouse. Companies that fuse strategy and execution, continually making adjustments and periodic dramatic pivots, demonstrate what strategy as learning can look like in action.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 3, 2013

France’s parliament has passed a law preventing internet booksellers from offering free delivery to customers, in an attempt to protect the country’s struggling bookshops from the growing dominance of US online retailer Amazon. In yet another act of economic stupidity, France targets Amazon to protect bookshops.

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