Strategic Management
This case write-up assignment is based on the “Amazon.com, Inc.” case. To complete this assignment, you need to purchase the case book from Harvard Business School Publishing.
Your paper should focus on addressing the following questions: 1. Describe Amazon.com as of the end of the case. What kind of company is Amazon.com? 2. Assess Amazon’s resources and capabilities using the VRIO framework. Can Amazon gain and sustain a competitive advantage? Why or why not? What is Amazon’s core competency?
- How is Amazon using its core competency in its diversification efforts? Amazon continues to spend billions on seemingly unrelated diversification efforts? Do you believe these efforts contribute to Amazon gaining and sustaining a competitive advantage? Why or why not?
- Is AWS related to Amazon’s core business? Why or why not? Some investors are pressuring Jeff Bezos to spin out AWS as a standalone company? Do you agree with this recommendation? Why or why not?
- Which of its competitors does Bezos need to pay most attention to, and why? And how should he deal with them in terms of devising Amazon’s business strategy? What recommendations can he you make to Bezos?
Sample Solution
n small before it became small. Moreover, if things only became smaller, and not larger, eventually everything would be miniscule. And if it was the other way around, where everything only became larger, and not smaller, everything would eventually be one thing, because everything would have joined together. If this were the case then we would notice that things only become smaller, shorter, or uglier, and never their opposites, or vice versa. Socrates shows that things do transition from two opposites, by referencing to observable examples. He contrasts this to death, and claims that there has to be a cycle of becoming alive and becoming dead, or else everything would become dead, or vice versa. The analogies that Socrates uses are applicable to every corporeal thing in the universe. Everything is either large or small, tall or short, etcetera. He claims that there is a process of becoming from its opposite (e.g. something becoming larger from being small), and that this process is cyclical. For if everythi>
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