Note that the first of these hires was made in 1999. The three people hired by Amazon were interesting in a number of ways.They all had “old-economy” backgrounds, meaning that that they had not worked for an internet based company, but rather in traditional manufacturing companies.Joseph G...
Today this quote is in danger of becoming a cliché, however if you apply the conceptual framework in figure 1, you will gain insight into the quote’s intended original meaning.That is, understanding a business starts with understanding a firm’s business model and then learning how to identi...