# Professor and Vice Dean of MBA Programs JP Eggers notes how firms should manage Amazon’s decreased innovation approach on its platform

1 Faculty News January 28, 2019 ![Forbes logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_030508.jpg?itok=SId6k3bx)>

Excerpt from [Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/washingtonbytes/2019/01/28/how-to-stop-amazon-from-swallowing-the-internet/#398ab21d3664)-- "As noted by Professor [J.P. Eggers](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/jp-eggers) of NYU's Stern School of Business, the 'effect of Amazon imitation should be to decrease innovation in categories sold on Amazon, as firms recognize imitation risk.'"

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