political and economic environment described in the House of Cards video is characterized by events leading up to the financial crisis the United States experienced in in the early 2000s. The crisis is credited to events such as, the burst of the Dot Com Bubble, which lead to a market crash that put the American economy in a recession; and the controversy that surrounded Government Sponsored Enterprises, which lead the American people to lose trust in it’s government’s financial institutes. However
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1. Review of Amazon’s strategy between 2007 and 2009 Strategic analysis Profiling the business: ➢ Mission: Amazon’s mission is to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, where customers can find and discover anything they might want to buy online, and endeavors to offer its customers the lowest possible price[1]. ➢ Product/service analysis: Since the establishment of Amazon, new products has been kept adding into the original book category and Amazon has moved further to provide service
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August 2013 When people hurt themselves lifting heavy things, it's usually because they try to lift with their back. The right way to lift heavy things is to let your legs do the work. Inexperienced founders make the same mistake when trying to convince investors. They try to convince with their pitch. Most would be better off if they let their startup do the work—if they started by understanding why their startup is worth investing in, then simply explained this well to investors. Investors
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The Lean Startup The Lean Startup is a methodology published by Eric Ries in 2011 intended to reinvent how we build businesses today. Since publishing the book The Lean Startup, the fundamentals behind the book have become a widely used process for many technology startups and has since progressed into curriculum of renowned universities and established businesses. The comprehensive idea behind The Lean Startup is to hypothesize, test, and refine your product or service as you build your business
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The movie I selected is called the Wolf of Wall Street, and took place during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Jordan Belford is a young man from Queens who is first hired as a sales consultant, and forced to call over 500 business men a day. Soon after the crash, Belford is forced to leave, he continues his career selling penny stocks, or pink sheets. Belford does very well here, and soon is able to found their own brokerage firm, with his good friend Danny Porush, which they call Stratton Oakmont
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Mackenzie Kretz SCM 465W Alibaba Vs Amazon Supply Chain Alibaba’s (BABA) is a Global e-commerce platform that was founded by Jack Ma in 1999. Alibaba’s original customer base was rural China but now BABA’s is expanding globally. Alibaba’s has now received the highest Initial Public Offering (IPO) the United States has ever seen. One of the positives of Alibaba’s is that it is already bigger than Amazon. Alibaba’s is the world’s fastest growing e-commerce market. Another positive
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Case Study: Strategic IT Transformation at Accenture An introduction to Accenture • Accenture today is a multinational management consulting, technology services, and outsourcing company. • Headquarters in Dublin, Ireland • World’s Largest IT Consulting firm by revenue • In 2014, reported net revenue of 30 billion • 305,000 employees world wide • Servicing clients in more than 200 cities and 56 countries History of Accenture • Started out as Andersen Consulting a division of the accounting firm
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Facebook is an online social networking site, which is headquartered California. Facebook inception was by Mark Z, who launed it on February 2004. The founders had initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to high-school students. Since 2006, anyone who is at least 13 years old was allowed to become
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