Limited | | Type | Public Company | Traded as | NYSE: BABA | Founded | 4 April 1999; 17 years ago Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | Headquarters | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China | Area served | Worldwide | Founder(s) | Jack Ma | Key people | * Jack Ma (Chairman) * Daniel Zhang (CEO) * Joseph Tsai (Executive vice-chairman) | Industry | Internet | Products | E-commerce, Online auction hosting, Online money transfers, mobile commerce | Services | Online shopping | Revenue | CN¥76
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classes or the probability of events by availability, i.e. by the ease with which relevant instances come to mind.’ The reliance on the availability heuristic leads to systematic biases. 1 In 1974, two brilliant psychologists, Amos Tversky and Daniel
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Jeremy Daniel Managing Change May 2, 2008 Case Write-Up Final – GE’s Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welsh’s Leadership 1.) How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he deal with it? What major lesson can we learn from his “first stage” that should be incorporated into our general “planned change” framework? Jack Welch faced several difficult challenges when he came into office in 1981. One of his primary areas of concern had to be replacing the retiring CEO
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Alibaba Goes Public I. Executive Summary Alibaba competes in the e-commerce industry with a focus in China. The main service offering in the e-commerce industry is to provide an online marketplace that links buyers and sellers across a wide breadth of product lines. The ability to connect buyers and sellers on an accessible platform allows market constituents to engage in trade opportunities to which they previously would not have access. II. Key Factors Alibaba Group had the pioneer advantage
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Jeremy Daniel Managing Change May 2, 2008 Case Write-Up Final – GE’s Two-Decade Transformation: Jack Welsh’s Leadership 1.) How difficult a challenge did Welch face in 1981? How effectively did he deal with it? What major lesson can we learn from his “first stage” that should be incorporated into our general “planned change” framework? Jack Welch faced several difficult challenges when he came into office in 1981. One of his primary areas of concern had to be replacing the retiring CEO
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COMPANY NOTE Initiating Coverage 27 October 2014 CHN | Technology | Internet BUY Price target $118.00 Price $95.76 The Powerful E-Commerce Ecosystem Connecting Half of China; Initiate at Buy Key Takeaway China's changing Internet user demographics and mobile development support our favorable view on e-Commerce for the next decade. Alibaba is the largest Chinese ecommerce player, with 80%+ GMV market share, but is only selling to less than 25% of the population now. We estimate
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these confusing times. The book follows two, at first, seemingly unrelated storylines. The first is the building of the World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893, the other about a serial killer known as H.H. Holmes. The book begins with a prologue of a Mr. Daniel H. Burnham aboard a ship, the Olympic, with his wife, Margaret in 1912. As Burnham looks back, remembering sad accounts of friends who helped him in the great accomplishment of building the fair, we as readers sense that something bad happened earlier
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THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LVI, NO. 4 • AUGUST 2001 Investor Psychology and Asset Pricing DAVID HIRSHLEIFER* ABSTRACT The basic paradigm of asset pricing is in vibrant f lux. The purely rational approach is being subsumed by a broader approach based upon the psychology of investors. In this approach, security expected returns are determined by both risk and misvaluation. This survey sketches a framework for understanding decision biases, evaluates the a priori arguments and the capital
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the general guide to controlled assessment available on the WJEC website. Topic Area 1: Political, social and economic developments in Wales and England in the nineteenth century and the twentieth centuries Exemplar Tasks 1. The Rebecca Riots 2. Jack the Ripper’s London 3. The Depression of the 1930s 4. Quarrying in North Wales 5. Life in the 1960s Introduction Controlled Assessment is a compulsory unit for GCSE History. Please note the following advice: These exemplars are written in a consistent
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Entr 301 Fangyi Liu Governor Jack Markell During this weekend I have interviewed Governor Jack Markell, I was trying to interview Professor Mark Bambach, but I couldn’t get an appointment with him, so I have no choice to go for my back up plan: Mr. Governor. Governor Markell grew up in Newark, Delaware, and graduated from Newark High School and Brown University major in economics and development studies and received an MBA degree from the University of Chicago. After he graduated from university
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