3/20/2014 How eBay Uses Data and Analytics to Get Closer to Its (Massive) Customer Base | MIT Sloan Management Review How eBay Uses Data and Analytics to Get Closer to Its (Massive) Customer Base Big Idea: Data & Analytics • Interview • June 25‚ 2013 • Reading Time: 11 min Neel Sundaresan (eBay)‚ Interviewed by Renee Boucher Ferguson Online auction site eBay uses data about the behavior of its millions of customers to drive analytics at every level of the organization‚ and get closer
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Why Did Texas Almost Fail as a Spanish Colony? Why do the ventures of man fail? The ventures of men fail primarily due to a lack of planning. In the case of Spanish colonies in Texas this holds true. The Spanish first set eyes on the Texas coast in 1519 and in 1821 they lowered their flag for the final time in Texas. The Spanish had about 300 years to try and colonize Texas and the attempt to colonize and settle Texas was not very successful. The initial boats that came to Texas were shipwrecked
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United States and China has never been smooth sailing. The relationship started off rocky with events such as the Peoples Republic and Tiananmen Square massacre and evolved into China being our biggest creditor and largest holder of U.S. debt (Alessi‚ Carin‚ and Zissis Pg. 1). Even though the United States aims for a strong‚ mutually enabling relationship with China‚ we are more realistically faced with a parasitic relationship‚ with China as the host. The United States and China have a very rocky
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Why did Prohibition fail? Prohibition took place in January 1920 with the 18th amendment and ended in December 1933 with the 21st amendment. Prohibition was the period of time in the USA where making‚ transporting‚ distributing or selling alcohol was illegal. Prohibition failed because the crime rates went up‚ the authorities were corrupted‚ there was a lack of public support‚ there was problems with enforcing it‚ big businesses started booming when bootleggers came in and the profits that the
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succeeded but some failed. What makes this difference? Failed organizations have a lack of leadership skills which corporate vision and establish strategy to achieve their aims. It is needed that the leader of organizations presents very clear vision to their members and set up specific strategies with their members to realize the vision. The members will conduct their particular task with detailed strategies and evaluate their performance. According to Irving L. Janis (What is group think‚ 22)‚ organization
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Imagine that we never lived in a place filled with racism. Why would anyone wanted to treat anybody different because of the color of their skin or because they are different? Well‚ some brave African Americans finally stood up for themselves but first they had to make some sacrifices such as Rosa Parks being arrested. Another thing that caused the boycott to succeed was that the entire Negro states hat stuck together and really stuck it out through the whole boycott‚ and one of the last things that
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Roiphe‚ Why Marriages Fail “Happily ever after” and “Till death do us part”‚ expressions such as these are losing their meaning due to increasing divorce rates. Close to one-half of all marriages are destined for divorce‚ which is the cause of 42 percent of children growing up in single parent homes. In every failed marriage or relationship‚ there are common causes for its failure. These causes will include lack of change in intimacy‚ test of endurance‚ as well as outside pressures‚ which could have
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Why did Nationalism Fail! In 1815‚ at the end of the Napoleonic wars the Deutscher Bund was created which include all 39 German states‚ but this was not a united Germany. By 1850‚ there had been several attempts to united Germany but all failed and Germany remained divided. WHY DID THEY FAIL- LINE OF ARGUMENT – FACTORS Austria opposition Prince Metternich (Austrian Minister) was strongly opposed to German nationalism and was a major obstacle to the unification of Germany‚ as Austria was one
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After winning the Spanish-American War in 1898‚ the United States gained control of three colonies and one of those colonies was the Philippines (42). Americans were split on their ideas of what to do with the Philippines. Some believed that the Philippines rightfully belonged to the U.S. so therefore the U.S. should retain the colony and govern it however they wish (42). One man who felt this way was Albert J. Beveridge‚ a U.S. Senator that opposed the anti-imperialist movement (42). Senator Beveridge
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that the most important thing to do is set the layers of love; loyalty‚ trust‚ respect‚ communication‚ and fidelity and a strong‚ solid foundation for a genuine friendship. As a result‚ mutual trust and respect will surely make a relationship last. Why is love important in a relationship? Love plays an important role in our lives‚ in our relationships and just anywhere. When I say love‚ I mean‚ you care for this person more than anyone else. You can see yourself with this person for a long time. If
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