“Flooding the zone” to land the best & brightest.
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Now that Amazon has staked out territory the grocery business, it’s time for them to move on to another front.
According to the WSJ: “Another Thing Amazon Is Disrupting: Business-School Recruiting”
Let’s put that in perspective:
In the past year, Amazon has hired some 1,000 newly minted M.B.A.s in the past year
Amazon is now the top MBA recruiter at Carnegie Mellon, Duke and Cal-Berkeley.
It hires the most first-year M.B.A.s at Michigan, MIT, Dartmouth College and Duke.
Last year, Amazon took in more interns from the University of Chicago than either Bain or McKinsey & Co., which were until recently the school’s top hirers of interns.
How do they do it?
The Homa Files 