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GameStop, Robinhood, & Reddit

CaseInterview.com

In US business news, the story of the week is day traders on the Robinhood stock trading app organizing stock trades via Reddit, a social media platform, to buy shares in the public company GameStop, all to make money while taking down Wall Street billionaires and their hedge funds. This is what happened with GameStop.

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GameStop, Robinhood, & Reddit

CaseInterview.com

business news, the story of the week is day traders on the Robinhood stock trading app organizing stock trades via Reddit, a social media platform, to buy shares in the public company GameStop, all to make money while taking down Wall Street billionaires and their hedge funds. In short, the GameStop business model as it is today is obsolete.

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Bonus Episode: GameStop Traders Rock the Financial Industry

Harvard Business

Youngme, Mihir, and Rawi share their thoughts on how a group of individual investors pushed up GameStop’s stock price, raising questions for the entire financial industry.

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Online Platforms Have Become Chaos Machines. Can We Rein Them In?

Harvard Business

An interview with MIT Sloan’s Sinan Aral about the GameStop frenzy — and where we go from here.

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The 5 Greatest Servant Leaders of All-Time

Rick Conlow

Leaders like this include Lampert of Sears, Raines of GameStop, Jeffries of Abercrombie and Fitch, and Menard of Menards. This non-leadership also applies to the businesspeople who rule their companies or teams like dictators. Or use the company as a playground for their ego or for personal profit. The 5 Greatest Servant Leaders.

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Weak Holiday Hiring Coming Up?

MishTalk

Seasonal Hiring Expectations Amazon 100,000 a 25% increase Macy's 85,000 no increase Wal-Mart 60,000 no increase JC Penney 30,000 down 5,000 Nordstrom 11,800 up 1,000 Toys R Us 40,000 down 5,000 Kohl's 69,000 up 2,000 Target 70,000 no increase Burlington 10,800 up 19% Sports Authority 3,500 no change GameStop 28,000 up 12% Belk 5,800 no increase Bon-Ton (..)

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