CASE 1 - AMAZON .COM: THE BRINK OF BANKRUPTCY Summary: Amazon.com is a global leader in online-retail. The company was born out of the tech boom of the 1990’s and founded by Jeff Bezos. Since its founding as an online bookseller‚ Amazon.com and drastically grown to expand its product offerings‚ fulfillment‚ and customer service. This growth required huge investments in technology and processes to support the complex business. Today‚ Amazon .com sells‚ or auctions‚ books‚ music‚ videos‚ toys
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the most successful indirect sales channel strategy at that time. In later 1990s‚ Cisco had ever been the world’s most valuable company‚ its market capitalization exceeded $500 billion in 2000‚ and sales reached $18 billion. With the telecom and dot-com crash in 2001‚ Cisco’s business was hugely affected; $1 billion loss was reported in 2001. The shrunken market made Cisco’s management completely review and revamp its go-to market strategy. Market and Products: Cisco’s major products are switches
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Services marketing Sucessful e com website- Myntra.com ------------------------------------------------- About myntra: Myntra was established by Mukesh Bansal‚ Ashutosh Lawania‚ and Vineet Saxena in February 2007. All three are IIT alumni‚ and have worked for several start-ups. Myntra is headquartered in Bangalore and has been funded by Venture Capital funds like IndoUS‚ IDG & Accel Partners.[6] The company started off in the business of personalization of products‚ and soon expanded to
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traditional retailers who have extensive logistics and supply chains. Part of the reason for its success is that it is far easier for a traditional retailer to establish an online presence than it is for a start-up company to employ a successful pure "dot com" strategy‚ or for an online retailer to establish a traditional presence (including a strong brand). The success of the model in many sectors has destroyed the credibility of analysts who argued that the Internet would render traditional retailers
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13 Dec. 2012. "Definition: Speculative Bubble." Investopedia. Investopedia‚ n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2012. DeGrace‚ Tom. "The Dot Com Bubble Burst That Caused The 2000 Stock Market Crash." Stock Picks System. Stock System Inc‚ 11 Apr. 2011. Web. 12 Dec. 2012. "Going Public." Introduction to Stock Market Investment. University of Illinois‚ n.d. Web. 11 Dec. 2012. "Here ’s Why The Dot Com Bubble Began And Why It Popped." Business Insider. Business Insider‚ 15 Dec. 2010. Web. 11 Dec. 2012. Madslien‚ Jorn. "Dotcom
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1) Factors influence the organisation of Amazon.com Every organisation is constantly influenced by economic and social factors such as change in competition‚ customer confidence‚ religious‚ education and the business law. Amazon.com‚ as an organisation has always been facing these influences in business environment. However‚ there are some major factors‚ which significantly influence Amazon.com‚ lead the company to success. Obviously‚ technology has been the most important factor that influences
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side of the table? Who should be brought into the negotiation. At first‚ the Chipotle didn’t think about bringing McD to the table. They want Venture Capital firms because they just want the money. However in the year of 1997‚ the beginning of Dot-com Bubble‚ venture capital firms were more interested in the high-flying tech world‚ so they refused to infuse Chipotle. After being rejected by the VCs‚ they found out that McD might be a much better candidate for the negotiation. Why? Because McDonald
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every business now must be built to transform. Consider Amazon (AMZN)‚ which emerged from the dot-com bubble one of the few winners and continued to blaze a trail of impressive growth (from about $4 billion in 2002 to nearly $20 billion in 2008). One of the most unexamine facets of Amazon’s high-profile success is its unabashed embrace of transformational growth in its white space. Amazon survived the dot-com bust because it had a viable and innovative business model built around a market-changing customer
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and Mary Meeker of Morgan Stanley have indicated the Internet Sector to hold promising investment opportunities‚ therefore Creative Computers and its subsidiary Ubid present potential prospects for investment. Analysis: Internet Sector: Dot-com Bubble The dot-com bubble has enabled the Internet sector and its related fields to yield earnings at an above-average rate relative to the market. Hence the expected return on these growth stocks is great (see figure below). However these investments involve
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on January 22‚ 2013 964 Downloaded from abs.sagepub.com at University of Waikato Library on January 22‚ 2013 Aspray 965 United States in 2002 after the dot-com crash but that the numbers of jobs had returned by 2005 to a point that there were more IT jobs in the United States by the spring of 2005 than there were at the highest point in the dot-com boom era (1999) Downloaded from abs.sagepub.com at University of Waikato Library on January 22‚ 2013 966 National Differences in Types of Offshoring Providers
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