ALI FARHOOMAND rP os t HKU776 ALIBABA.COM op yo China is a place where miracles are made. - Jack Ma‚ founder and chairman of Alibaba Group1 tC On 6 November 2007‚ Alibaba.com debuted on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange‚ raising US$1.5 billion to become the world’s biggest internet offering since Google’s initial public offering (“IPO”) in 2004. A frenzied purchase of the stock pushed prices up by 193% on the first trading day‚ making it the fourth-largest first-day gain in Hong Kong’s stock exchange
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1) Is current immigration policy seriously treated as a national security issue? How was it treated prior to September 11th? 2) Was lax border enforcement the only factor that caused the September 11‚ 2001‚ attack? 3) What does open‚ but closed borders mean? After reading the assigned material‚ I have come to some pretty harsh realizations concerning immigration policy and how it relates to national security both pre and post 9/11. Up until taking this course‚ I paid only a passing interest
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Week 1 DQ 1 Joseph McCarthy held congressional hearings in which he often used affiliation and hearsay to accuse people of being communists and a threat to the United States. What was unknown at the time was that while his methods were often distasteful and abusive—and possibly illegal—he did successfully identify some dangerous communists. Do you think he should be considered a patriot or not? Why? When looking at this question‚ the first thing we need to know is what a patriot is. The dictionary
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Case Study: Alibaba 1. Identify a product you would like to import. Visit www.alibaba.com‚ go to the advanced search field‚ and enter it. Select required criteria and click on “Search.” Review the list of companies that qualify. Find a suitable seller. Analyze this process for ease‚ usefulness‚ and potential value. I was looking into importing Football jerseys for semi-pro football teams here in the United States. During the search process of the entire venture was very simple it is all
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DQ 1 Anita Sabillo ECO 561 September 29‚ 2014 Dr. King DQ 1 Explain how the market economic system works to answer the fundamental economic questions. Explain how this may differ from a command economic system. Historically‚ which has worked best and why? There are three basic questions of economy and they are as follows: what to produce‚ how to produce it and who to produce it for. In a market economy‚ the organization is geared around producing or making the product and deciding what and
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What is the quality of the study abstract for any of the studies and provide a rationale for your answer? The quality of the abstract for Imes‚ Dougherty‚ Pyper and Sullivan (2011) is poor. According to Groves‚ Burns and Gray (2013) an abstract should be a clear and concise summary of the study. This abstract contains less than 100 words and lacks recommended information by Groves et al. for quantitative studies to appropriately fulfill the clarity for a quality abstract. The intro does not have
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The U.S. school shootings The school shooting in Blacksburg‚ Virginia on the 16th of April 2007 was deadliest in American history. Twenty-three year old Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 people before taking his own life. He carried a 9mm semiautomatic and a .22-caliber handgun‚ both with the serial numbers obliterated‚ federal law enforcement officials said. No matter what kind of perspective one uses there is not just one event that occurs before a person chooses to become a mass murderer and the motivation
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Alibaba had several Internet businesses focused on various e-commerce business models. Being one of the first companies to enter the Chinese Internet industry‚ Alibaba played a major role in bringing about an Internet revolution in China. It was launched with the vision of serving the small and medium enterprises in China and across the world. Alibaba also participate in search engine market and social-networking product. Jack Ma is founder of Alibaba. In 1995‚ he went to America and it was then
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Respond to ONE of the following: Question A Tell us about yourself so you can meet and greet other fellow Grantham University students within your course. Include what you believe to be your current knowledge level of this course topic and what you hope to learn before the course is over. Question B Discuss which function of a business’s operations you think is the most important. Why? Tell us about yourself so you can meet and greet other fellow Grantham University students within your
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TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG Alibaba: Competing in China and Beyond Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights IBDEM Prof. Dr. Johannes Stephan By Lu Hui Chin (57963) Yang Limeng (57938) 05.05.2014 Freiberg‚ Germany 2 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ……………………………………………………………………… 3 2. History and Development of Alibaba ……………………………………………. 3 3. Alibaba’s Competition Advantages ……………………………………………… 4 3.1 Biggest market share of E-commerce in China …………………………….. 4 3.2
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