By BRAD STONE WHEN the e-commerce giant eBay emerged from the last recession seven years ago with an aura of invincibility, its chief executive, Meg Whitman, boasted that “eBay is to some extent recession-proof.” As the online auctioneer’s revenues and stock price kept climbing, one of its primary rivals, Amazon.com, just limped along. How times have changed. Ms. Whitman, now co-chair of Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign, retired from eBay earlier this year as the company struggled with
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6 SWOT Analysis…………………….……………..….…..….Page 7 Working at eBay......................….............Page 9 International Locations……………………………..….Page 10 Company Overview EBay is the largest online marketplace in the world. EBay has became one of the most popular auction sites we know of today. One can find more than 18,000 categories of merchandise on eBay, including big-ticket items such as cars and real estate. EBay is not so much an e-commerce site as it is a trading community, where
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The 5th March 2012 000316596 Case study 3 : Ebay’s strategy in China : Alliance or acquisition ? 1. Ebay acquired EachNet in order to expand itself in the Chinese market. The acquisition proved to be a success and the market share increased a lot. In order to capture users, the company formed alliances with the top 3 Chinese internet portals (Sina, Sohu and NetEase). However, eBay EachNet soon faced the obstacle of increasing competition from local market rivals. The company did not escape
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eBay Structures Its Bid For Change Kendra L. Brown Webster University eBay Structures Its Bid For Change Problem Statement Adoption of an improper organizational structure design that is not flexible enough to the unstable and the rapidly changing external environment in eBay’s domestic and international markets. Analysis and Evaluation A functional organizational structure with various operational areas, such as finance, operations, human resources, and legal
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----------------------- eCommerce Case Studies Case Study 1: Amazon Amazon, originally called Cadabra, was launched by Jeff Bezos in 1995. It was set up during the dotcom boom of the 1990s with an unusual business model - it did not expect to make a profit until after at least four years of business. While other dotcom businesses grew rapidly, Amazon slowly built strong foundations. Finally, at the end of its fourth year, it made a $2.5 million profit. In 2005, it made a profit of $359 million and in
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1. A business model is a revenue generating partnership of the business and its customers. The business model activates the business plan. There are several questions that formulate the business model. Such as • What is our relationship with our customer? What are they offering the business? • Will this customer be in relationship for the short term or long term? • Is there one customer that controls our business? • What marketing or other strategies guarantee new long-term customers? • How
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up getting a quarter of a million dollars of funding. That’s worth it!” – Todd C. Tablegate Click here to save 50% off the first month of LivePlan! Cover Page [pic] This sample business plan has been made available to users of Business Plan Pro®, business planning software published by Palo Alto Software. Names, locations and numbers may have been changed, and substantial portions of the original plan text may have been omitted to preserve confidentiality and proprietary
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Running Head: StubHub Stub Hub was started by Jeff Fluhr and Eric Baker. They found a niche market for their business idea relating to tickets. In early 2004, consumer’s mainstream channel for purchasing tickets was from either a primary ticket seller (venue organizer) or a primary authorized ticket seller like Ticketmaster. If the ticket holder wished to resell their tickets, there was no proper devoted channel to allow this type of transaction in a safe, secure and swift manner. Major ticket
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percent stated that they have used or will use the Internet at work to shop for gifts online. While that creates a problem for productivity in the workplace, online retailers are redefining their business models to take advantage of Cyber Monday. Ice.com, an online jewelry retailer, sees this as a new business dimension, so much so that it’s offering free shipping and a gift-with-purchase promotion for everyone ordering products on Cyber Monday. According to Pinny Ginwisch, Ice.com founder and executive
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“Open Sesame” The Legend of Alibaba.com Nov. 11, 2012 Jia Chen Kang He Yiyi Wang Jingyan Wu Liang Xue Qiaolan Zhuo Executive Summary “To make it easy to do business anywhere” is the core value proposition of Alibaba.com, a leading B2B online market place in China with 53.8% market share. Founded in Dec. 1999, Alibaba provides both suppliers and buyers an easy to use online interface where they can match their needs. The report team considered this as an innovation because other
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