Digital Winners and Losers

February 11, 2020

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Digital technologies are upending many industries and companies. Think about Uber’s impact on the taxi business or Amazon’s impact on retail stores.

For this assignment, we would like you to identify companies/organizations that you think are winning or losing. Just work on either winners or losers. Please focus on just one organization. Tell us why they are a winner or loser. Discuss elements of how they create and/or capture value that is leading you to call them a winner or loser.

Create an approximately 750-word post to make your contribution on digit.hbs.org by 6pm on Feb 11. Please create appropriate tags for your post including if it is a “winner” or “loser.” Please also respond to and comment on three other posts. Feel free to use graphics, data, videos and links to other sites to corroborate your points.

Selected posts will be discussed in class.

Submitted (79)

Introducing a digital winner Wattpad! “A place where stories live and discovered”.
Viria Vichit-Vadakan
Last modified on February 11, 2020 at 5:50 pm
Wattpad! "A place where stories live and discovered”. A new destination for writers.
EverlyWell: A digital health platform for user-driven lab testing
Matt B
Last modified on February 11, 2020 at 5:22 pm
In healthcare, digital disruption often occurs via strategic business model innovation as opposed to radical technological transformation. EverlyWell is winning in the lab testing space using exactly that approach.
Uber vs. Taxi
Carla SanchezArmas
Posted on March 31, 2020 at 9:21 pm
Previous to entrance of Uber in public transportation market (in 2009) the service provided by taxis, in general, was very deficient and expensive. Uber’s entrance broke the monopoly that taxi drivers had in each city, particularly in airports. Uber’s unique [...]
FedEx: Navigating disruption storms with no clear skies ahead
Leonardo Hugo Lujan
Posted on February 11, 2020 at 1:24 am
FedEx is facing the threat of two of the most severe digital disruptors: Amazon and Uber. As e-commerce operations gain more relevance in supply chain distribution networks, the tech giant is aggressively increasing the vertical integration of its distribution network. [...]
AWS: Cloudy With a Chance of World Domination
Jon Snow
Posted on February 11, 2020 at 6:07 pm
AWS led the cloud revolution, now they continue to dominate the landscape through rapid innovation and a top-notch services ecosystem.
MarketAxess: Winning via bond disruption
Sky Deck
Posted on February 11, 2020 at 5:43 pm
Cross the widely known benefits of electronic platforms with the massive but unfamiliar-to-most world of bond trading, and you get MarketAxess (Nasdaq: MKTX). The question isn’t if their fixed income marketplace will win or even when, but just by how [...]
Nubank: a fintech that finally nudges Brazil’s banking oligopoly
Fernanda Pedreira
Posted on February 11, 2020 at 6:10 pm
  Nubank is a fintech that was founded in 2013 and entered the Brazilian market to compete with traditional financial services providers. From its inception, it offered consumer credit cards that slashed annual fees and that were entirely managed by [...]
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