Case study Alibaba.com International Business Alibaba.com case study I. Case Background Alibaba.com is the flagship company of Alibaba Group, is the world’s largest online business-to-business trading platform for small-and-medium size businesses. Founded in 1999 by Jacky Ma in Hangzhou at eastern China, Alibaba.com has three major marketplaces. The company’s English language international marketplace Alibaba international (www.alibaba.com) serves to bring together importers and exporters
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CASE SYNOPSIS Business 478 Prepared by: Aswin Kumar Candice Woods Giorgio Budolig Lucas Segars Qasim Nathoo Prepared for: Jerry Sheppard March 20, 2013 Blackberry, Then And Now Research In Motion (RIM) entered the mobile communications industry in 1984. The Waterloo, Ontario, company founded by Mike Laziridis, penetrated the market with two-way paging technology; developed as a substitute product for Motorola’s SkyTel. Following a series of financing in 1998, and a Co-CEO partnership
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| |Course ID |MGT405080 | |Course Name |Strategic Management | | | |Type |core
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E-Business Roadmap Attend the Getting started Webinar Part A Develop an online business expansion Proposal 1. Viability of product or service a. What is the business’s case? b. Why does it make sense to go online and be successful? c. Pro’s and Challenges of going online 2. Current Online Competitor Assessment a. What are the ramifications of not having that component? b. What’s going on in the market place? i. Trends ii. Concepts c
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introduction of DANG and YOUKU 3 2.1 Introduction of DANG 3 2.2 Introduction of YOUKU 3 3. SWOT ANALYSIS 4 3.1 SWOT analysis for DANG 4 3.2 SWOT analysis for YOUKU 4 4. RULE 1: FINANCIAL HEALTH 5 5. PROFITABILITY 5 5. 1 Rule 2: Management Assessment 5 5.1.1 Market Capitalization 5 5.1.1.1 Market Capitalization of DANG 5 5.1.1.2 Market Capitalization of YOUKU 6 5.1.2 Benchmark of Lincoln Indicators 6 5.1.3 Calculation of four ratios for DANG 6 5.1.3.1 ROA 6 5
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Money and Currency Market Assessment Working Capital Management Report #3 Faculty of Business Field of Study: Money and Currency Market Kozminski University, Warsaw Handed in by: Ewa Dembska, Jennifer March, Sarah Steinberger Course: WIB-bi 13 Academic tutor: Prof. Dr. Mieczysław Grudziński Warsaw, 25th March 2015 | Introduction to the problem You are the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of BP. This afternoon you played golf with a member of the company’s board of directors. Somewhere during
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Platform………………………………………………………………………………7 4.12 Database…………………………………………………………………………….7 4.13 Security………………………………………………………………………………7 4.14 Site Hosting………………………………………………………………………….8 4.15 Major Pages, Functions, Features and Use Cases……………………………..8 4.16.1 Home Page…………………………………………………………………9 4.16.2 Search……………………………………………………………………....9 4.16.3 Search Result Page(s)…………………………………………………….9 4.16.4 Shopping Cart………………………………………………………….......9
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C H A P T E R T W O Communicating Strategically In the first chapter, we examined the changing environment for business over the last half century. In this chapter, we explore how these changes have affected corporate communication and why it has become imperative for modern companies to communicate strategically. Strategic communication can be defined as “communication aligned with the company’s overall strategy, [intended] to enhance its strategic positioning.”1 An effective strategy
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commercial value but they do not have any particular protection under the law, except in the case of contracts between parties that specifically refer to such intellectual property. The Internet has completely reshaped customer relationships. The transformation began with the dot-com boom, which spawned a new type of company whose entire business model was predicated on Web acceptance and usage. These companies -- Yahoo, Amazon, eBay and Google -- took advantage of the Web in all aspects of their business
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improving internet delivery option; maintaining mutually beneficial relationships with entertainment providers; and to increase its catalogue number and decrease its new releases aspect (Netflix Corporate Fact Sheet) Management Style Founder and CEO Reed Hastings has created a unique management style. Netflix has a laid-back structure that allows employees to make their own decisions, but greatly encourages that smart decisions are made. Some of the perks include allowing employees to structure their
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