Amazon links
January 11th, 2010
Not really HBS related, but I found myself sending this list of links again and again for the past few weeks, so decided to put it here instead.
Other than that, all is well. Cheers from sunny (!) Seattle.
- Web Worker Daily » Archive Amazon Quietly Launches Software Downloads «
- Amazon Web Services Blog: AWS For Facebook Applications
- Amazon Web Services, Products, Tools, and Developer Information…
- Amazon Strengthens Its Digital Hand With $300 Million Purchase of Audible
- Amazon is betting big on digital media. This morning it announced the $300 million acquisition of Audible (a 7 percent premium to Audible’s …
- The Associated Press: Amazon’s Hot New Item: Its Data Center
- Amazon profit up, but margins squeezed | Reuters
- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc <AMZN.O> on Wednesday issued quarterly earnings and full-year sales forecasts ahead of Wall Street targets, but profit margins declined in what one analyst
- Jeff Bezos’ Risky Bet – BusinessWeek
- Amazon’s CEO wants to run your business with the technology behind his Web site. But Wall street wants him to mind the store
- Amazon: We Want Sellers. An Interview with Matt Williams
- Amazon.com is creating soup-to-nuts solutions for sellers of all sizes, from individuals selling one-off items, to multi-billion-dollar enterprises. But is Amazon looking for sellers of more eclectic inventory, such as antiques and collectibles? AuctionBytes sat down with Amazon.com Director of Business Solutions Matt Williams, who explains Amazon’s philosophy regarding sellers on its site.
- An Interview with Amazon.com’s Matt Williams (Part 2)
- In an interview last week with Amazon.com’s Director of Business Solutions Matt Williams, he talked about options for third-party sellers on Amazon. Part 1 of the interview, which discussed the Selling on Amazon program, was published in the February 17th issue of the AuctionBytes-Update newsletter. Part 2 of the interview follows and covers Webstore by Amazon, a solution that lets sellers create their own branded ecommerce sites, and Amazon’s latest offering, Product Ads.
- Howstuffworks “Amazon E-commerce”
- Amazon started out as a bookseller and now serves as a sales platform. Find out about Amazon’s expansion and the sales integration that makes it so profitable.
- Sold on eBay, Shipped by Amazon.com – New York Times
- Amazon.com is expanding a program to allow independent sellers — even vendors who sell through eBay — to use its shipping services.
- Ten things Amazon can do better online | Internet Marketing News and Blog | E-consultancy.com
- Amazon is one of the great e-commerce success stories and we often use the site as an example of best practice. But what can it improve The site s usability isn t perfect but users have become famili…
- Howstuffworks “How Amazon Works”
- Amazon.com’s story is an e-commerce dream. Find out what makes Amazon different and how its technology infrastructure supports its sales approach.
- Amazon isn’t `leading indicator’ of economy, chief Bezos says | TheNewsTribune.com | Tacoma, WA
- TheNewsTribune.com is the South Puget Sound’s premier news and information source with local, national and regional news, the best sports section in the Pacific Northwest and a daily updated classified ad section.
- Bezos On Innovation
- Amazon.com’s founder discusses his approach to innovation—both how to do it and how to stay focused when critics question high-risk projects.
- Amid the Gloom, an E-Commerce War – NYTimes.com
- Seven years ago, eBay was an online juggernaut and Amazon.com its weaker rival. How times have changed.
- Jeff Bezos on Amazon Kindle and Digital Media – US News and World Report
- Amazon founder describes forays into electronic books, music, and video.
- Is Amazon Ready For The Enterprise? – NYTimes.com
- With a flurry of announcements in recent weeks, Amazon has extended its cloud computing lead. The beta label s gone. It can run
- Chief Of The Year: Amazon CTO Werner Vogels — IT Management — InformationWeek
- Amazon’s external-facing CTO is helping to devise a cloud computing architecture with customer requirements built-in.
- Q&A: Amazon’s Andrew Jassy on web services and buffalo wings – TechFlash: Seattle’s Technology News Source
- Seattle’s Technology News Source
- How Amazon Aims to Keep You Clicking – BusinessWeek
- Maintaining good customer “experience” is key, even when it’s an outside merchant making the sale.
- The World’s Best Retailer – Barrons.com
- Jeff Bezos’ Amazon.com is winning customers with competitive prices, wide selection, reliability — and Kindle. It’s winning shareholders, too. (Video)
Done. Or am I?
May 10th, 2009
Last Tuesday I uploaded my last exam (yes, we’re very high tech at HBS) and thus concluded my two years of HBS MBA. My exams still need to be checked and graduation is still a month from now, but for all intents and purposes I’m done.
Happy Birthday 2.0
April 18th, 2009
Wow, it is almost the second birthday of the blog. I don’t remember doing anything voluntarily for such a long time (well, perhaps sticking with the same guy).
I got a nice birthday present: “2008-9 Best of Blogging” nomination from ClearAdmit. ClearAdmit is an admissions consulting company that runs an MBA blog which is an excellent resource for MBA applicants (I used to read it when I was applying). So the nomination, as they say at HBS, is an honor, a privilege and a humbling experience. I also got a cool icon:
The birthday and the nomination motivated me to update many parts of the blog – the pages that appear at the header (best posts, blogroll) have been updated, as well as other things.
Forget about my HBS Essay Analysis or the books HBS students read, or my other best posts. In what promises to be the ultimate post of all times, here are…
Some good things
April 4th, 2009
After my last post created some interesting controversy, this time I want to share with you the other side of the coin. It’s not just fun and games (and travel) that we do here at HBS. In short, it’s also a lot of hard work and and doing good.
Here’s what I mean:
“Travel”
February 25th, 2009
These are very turbulent times we’re living in – one of the world’s deepest recessions, elections in Israel, etc. But this time, I want to write about something much more important.
-12*
January 28th, 2009
First semester ended and we had our winter break. I went to NYC for a week:
Then I came home to Israel for the rest of the break. Spent some quality time in Eilat with my family, some time with friends in Tel Aviv (though as always, I left feeling I didn’t do that enough) and also tagged along with the HBS Israel Immersion.
The immersion was awesome – a group of ~40 HBS students, led by Prof. Dan Isenberg, came to Israel for a week titled “The Israeli Entrepreneurship Miracle and High Tech Industry” (or something like that). They visited Israeli start ups, met successful entrepreneurs, VCs, multinationals like Google and Microsoft and of course did the required touristy things – Jerusalem, Masada and the Dead Sea. You can read about the immersion in this beautiful Harbus article.
The immersion took place at the same time of the mess in Gaza strip. I’m so happy the school decided not to cancel it, and only 5 (out of 49) students canceled their participation. Since the immersion took place around Tel Aviv, participants had a safe experience and I’m so glad they got to see the Real Israel firsthand.
Some photos from Eilat are here.
Me pedaling in Timna Park near Eilat
Job Update
First Snow
December 8th, 2008
HBSpeak
October 21st, 2008
HBS is full of euphemisms and politically correctness. So this time, when HBSers say X, they actually mean Y:
Recruiting
| They say… | They Mean… |
| The recruiting process was a humbling experience | The recruiting process was a humiliating experience |
| There wasn’t a cultural fit | I didn’t get an offer |
| I wouldn’t have gone back anyway | I didn’t get an offer |
| How’s the lifestyle at your company? | Will I have a life or will I work 19 hours a day? |
| I had a great summer at Lehman and plan on going back | I’ve been smoking something really strong in the last few weeks |
| It’s a competitive offer | I’m getting tons of money! |
| I’m trying for consulting, I think it’s a good fit for me | Finance is gone and I have no idea what I wanna do with my life |
| I applied to all strategic corporate rotational leadership development programs | I have no freaking idea what I wanna do with my life |
| I’m considering canceling my hell week interviews and accepting the McKinsey offer | There are awesome deals to the Bahamas |
| Dedicated Interview Period | Hell Week |
Ahead of the Curve?
September 20th, 2008
I originally planned to write this post about “Ahead of the Curve”, the new “Sensational” book about HBS
Many students at HBS are stressed and waiting to see how things unfold. I think that in our narrow world of MBAs, we still need to wait and see, but no doubt everyone acknowledges that this crisis will have a profound impact on Wall Street in particular and the US economy in general. In this context, the title of the book – and the post – seems quite ironic now.
But anyway, to the book…
