HKU701 JIANGYONG LU ZHIGANG TAO EBAY’S STRATEGY IN CHINA: ALLIANCE OR ACQUISITION In December 2006, eBay Inc., a US company that offered e-commerce, e-payments and internet communication services globally, announced its plan to form a joint venture with China-based online portal and wireless operator, TOM Online, in which eBay would have 49% ownership.1 The move reflected the increasing difficulties foreign internet companies were facing in their attempts to snatch a share of the Chinese market
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INFO 410 Case Studies 1-2 Handout General Instructions Case studies are to be performed as described in the syllabus and in the Chapter 1 lecture notes. The questions provided here are NOT designed to be comprehensive steps, just some of the points I’d expect you to address while doing the case studies. So please go beyond the issues identified here; these are just help to get you started. 1. Case Study I-1 IBM’s Decade of Transformation: Turnaround to Growth (starts on page 5)
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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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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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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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The Intern yep April 9, 2012 yep The Internet The internet has changed the world as we knew it. The world no longer communicates, does business, or perches commodities in the same a traditional way. E-mail, instant massager and chat rooms were the first innovations to be used by the public. As time went on more and more people depended on the internet to communicate with each other. It did not take long for the U.S. Postal service to see the decline in mailed letters. With the internet being
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History of the Web The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW and also known as The Web. With a web browser, you can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by using hyperlinks. Invented by Tim Berners-Lee software engineer at CERN, realized there was a need because many scientists participated in experiments at CERN for extended periods of time, then returned to their laboratories around the world. These scientists were eager to exchange
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GDP experienced a huge amount of growth each year for four consecuvtive years. This growth was during the internet stock bubble. There were many new internet startups during these years and many people investing into them. Also, because of such high GDP these years, there was a government surplus, but only for this four year period. However, when the internet stock bubble burst in 2001, the GDP did not increase nearly as much as it had the four prior years. However, throughout the rest of the early
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The United States housing bubble was an economic bubble affecting many parts of the United States housing market in over half of American states. Housing prices peaked in early 2006, started to decline in 2006 and 2007, and reached new lows in 2012. On December 30, 2008, the Case-Shiller home price index reported its largest price drop in its history. The credit crisis resulting from the bursting of the housing bubble is the primary cause of the 2007–2009 recession in the United States. Increased
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Enron – “The Smartest Guys in the Room” Who were the smartest guys in the room? Kenneth Lay, the founder of ENRON. Louis Borget, the CEO who diverted company money to offshore accounts. Jeffrey Skilling, the CEO who implemented the mark-to market accounting. J. Clifford Baxter and Lou Pai, the executives who Skilling hired. Andrew Fastow, the CFO who created companies solely to do business with Enron. The auditors, who turned the head when the money came rolling in. Are these the
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