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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Microfinance Enters the Marketplace by Elisabeth Rhyne and Robert Peck Christen ABSTRACT The past few years have seen an acceleration in the creation of commercial microfinance programs. The demonstration effect of profitable microfinance institutions (MFIs)‚ combined with market forces in newly-liberalized financial markets‚ created the conditions for this rapid expansion. Bolivia‚ Chile‚ Paraguay‚ Uganda and Bangladesh are the focus countries for this paper‚ although the authors draw examples
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Table of Contents Introduction: 2 PART A: Chapter Summary 3 PART B: Background and Case summary 5 EBay’s Background 5 Case Summary: Making eBay work 6 PART C: Case Questions 7 Case Question #1: 7 Case Question #2: 10 Case Question #3 10 PART D: Implications and Recommendation 12 Implications 12 Recommendations 13 Introduction: Strategic capabilities have become a source of competitive advantage for both small and large organization. Organizations that wish to survive
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Yes‚ there is an auction website that is combatant to eBay. The web site uBid.com is just that‚ a formidable contender. These two auction based websites are leaders in the world in the effect of bid vending. The function of the websites are comparable‚ yet distinguish themselves accordingly to give themselves a branded feeling. The feel of the site is crucial to its success overall. So much can be said regarding comfortable site navigation and user friendliness. And because of the convenience
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EBay Case Analysis Step One: Read. Step 2: Dupont Ratio and Financial Analysis o Two year Financial Ratio o Short Term o Current Ratio 2002: 1‚468‚458/386‚224= 3.8 2001= 4.9 o Long Term o Total Debt Ratio Total ass. Total equity/ Total ass. 2002= .1377 2001= .1485771 o Asset Utilization‚ or turnover ratios o Total Asset Turnover Sales/ total assets 2002= .29 2001= o Profitability o Return on assets= net income/ total assets o 2002= .0117 o 2001= .053885
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between eBay and Taobao in Chinese Online Auction Market BSAD 415:66 Electronic Business Prof. G. Trites Jie Yue (Kathy) 200706289 June 10‚ 2008 1 Introduction Being the largest online trading company‚ eBay has launched websites across the world‚ including thirty other countries in addition to its original U.S. website. China‚ with its large online market‚ is one of these countries. In 2003‚ after its cooperation with Eachnet‚ the first C2C online company in China‚ eBay became
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answer the following questions: 1.Till 2005‚ eBay EachNet was the leader in the Chinese e-commerce market‚ controlling more than half of it. But eBay EachNet soon lost its market leadership position to Taobao.com (Taobao). In this context‚ analyze the reasons that can be attributed to Taobao’s edge over eBay. 2.a. To enable people to trade with each other‚ Pierre Omidyar created a marketplace in September 1995 which was later called eBay. By mid 1997‚ eBay received one million page hits per week with
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e-commere with Amazon‚ eBay has to determine whether it should maintain the existing business model or transform its model and expand into new areas. eBay and Amazon have different kinds of business models and strategies. eBay’s business model was based on creating and maintaining a person-to-person trading community. Being the world’s largest online auction company‚ eBay offers e-commerce platforms and online payment solutions to a critical mass of sellers and buys. eBay makes money by charging
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force about Ebay The risk of entry by potential competitors is relatively high due to low barriers to entry. New competitors can launch new sites at a nominal cost using commercially available software. This low barrier to entry will cause competition to intensify in the future. Also due to the broad range of products sold at eBay there is many more opportunities for new competitors to enter in more specific market segments. The degree of rivalry among established companies within eBay抯 industry
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eBay’s Strategy in China Defining the Business Model 1) Customer Value Proposition (CVP) eBay’s customer value proposition consists on three main ideas. The main one‚ their target market‚ is all Chinese customer with the willingness to buy and trade through an online platform. eBay tried to fulfill this necessity by opening an online trading “auction house” for Chinese customers. The company provided a service where an item would be listed in their webpage with the ability to bid on it. The
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