eBay: “The world’s largest online marketplace”- A Case Study J.Gopalkrishnan* V.K Gupta** Abstract eBay‚ Inc. is the largest and most popular marketplace on the Internet‚ allowing members to buy and sell almost anything. Launched in 1995‚ about 147 million people now use eBay. An estimated 430‚000 people in the United States make all or most of their living by selling on eBay. eBay’s online payment service‚ called PayPal‚ enables transactions nearly anywhere in the world. eBay proclaims “trust” between
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4.2 Managing Risk Risk analysis and management comprises a series of measures that must be employed to avoid the occurrence or even allow the elimination of these risks. This risk management is nothing more than a set of specific and defined processes in order to do everything so that the risks pointed out do not occur. 4.2.1 Category I: Preventable risks Analyst should also pay attention to other circumstantial factors that can contribute to the quality of the analysis result. Succession problems
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fume | Conduct tool box talkProper housekeepingSimultaneous operations | | Mechanical (crush points) | x | Ignition Sources | x | Other Trades | | x | Manual Handling | x | Ground Condition | x | Wind | | Steps | Task/Activity | Hazard | Risk Consequence | Solution/Control MeasureMitigation | Responsible Person | 1 | Structural steel erection‚ lifting operation for steel structures using crane. | Falling from heights ‚ slips‚ trips‚ wind velocity | Serious incident‚ fatality‚
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Risk 1: Global warming -- our technology is killing our environment. 2: Possible network-wide failure because of a computer virus or malfuntion (like Y2K‚ except real). 3: Nuclear warfare and fallout -- our technology would‚ in theory‚ allow us to destroy the world as we know it. This is not a good thing‚ even if it helps us win wars. Also in that category: weapons of mass destruction‚ bioweapons‚ and so on (the fact that there is a "so on" is scary in and of itself). 4: Religious conflicts
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Product and Services Ebay was Founded in September 1995 by Pierre Omidyar in his San Jose living room (Bjornsson 2001)‚ he created a flea market in cyberspace when launched online auction service Auction Web. Making a name for itself largely through word of mouth‚ the company incorporated in 1996‚ the same year it began to charge a fee to auction items online.The company changed the name to eBay in 1997 and began promoting itself through advertising. By the middle of that year‚ eBay was boasting nearly
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Weighing the Risks of Medications There are remedies for any symptoms nowadays. Patients can be prescribed a variety of medications to cure or treat any given illness. Although many great results stem from ground-breaking innovations in the pharmaceutical industry; those innovations often come with harmful side-effects. Many people have stated that some prescription medications are unsafe and need more stringent regulations. They claim that some drugs are highly addictive and potentially deadly.
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short positions in equity stakes in 3 Japanese companies. The third one is that GM has a financing exposure‚ which includes a completion of $500 million Yen-dominated bonds issuing. The three kinds of exposures above make GM face a foreign currency risk and can influence the GM’s cash flow in the future. 2. How important is GM’s competitive exposure to the Yen? GM’s competitive exposure to the Yen is very significant because of the reasons below: As we have read from the case‚ we know that
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Why does Ebay have problems in Asian Markets? This is the question to be answered in the first Case assignment of Business 401. In order to answer this question there must be discussion about Global marketing concepts‚ such as product‚ place‚ promotion‚ and pricing (the 4 p’s)‚ method of entry‚ and entry decision. Then it is important to apply those concepts to the Asian Market. In the pages that follow I will discuss the marketing decisions of Ebay in their mission to expand into Asian markets
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For example‚ Odell and Commander identify some risk factors for homelessness among people with psychotic disorders as they recruited them from mental services. According to their research about psychotic disorders‚ the data from interviews and medical records showed High rates of severe mental illness amongst single homeless populations have been consistently reported in the literature. The reasons for this disturbing finding arise‚ at least in part‚ from structural features in our society are
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1. Comparative analysis of the impact of mergers and acquisitions on financial efficiency of banks in Nigeria In Nigerian‚ mergers and acquisitions in the banking sector decided to reform the tactics and change the position of banking sector. Okpanachi Joshua (2011) write this paper use many ratios such as gross earnings‚ profit after tax and net assets of the selected banks to compare the pre-mergers and acquisitions’ index number with the post-mergers and acquisitions’ index number during the
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