McDonough School of Business

Higher prices are impacting two of the largest streaming video sites. Will Hulu be next? Earlier this spring Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) announced that it would raise the price of its streaming video and two-day shipping service, Amazon Prime, from $79 to $99 per year. That price increase has now gone...

Netflix (NASDAQ: NFLX) CEO Reed Hastings was in hot water when his company decided to increase its monthly service fee in 2011. Hastings also attempted to split his company in two by launching a new DVD service, Qwikster. After hearing what consumers thought of the idea, Netflix canceled those...

Black Friday, as the official start of the holiday shopping season, is over. Thanks to a shortened holiday calendar with only four weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas (not to mention the fact Hanukkah begins November 27), many retailers had already planned an early start to this important...