successful online business empire. Initially an auction based marketplace for the sale of goods and services for individuals‚ eBay is now all about e-commerce‚ that is about buying and selling products and services on the Internet via electronic methods (using the World Wide Web). It is classified as business-to-business‚ business to consumer and consumer-to-consumer. eBay has successfully implemented all these three categories in its business. An overwhelming amount of eBay’s success is directly
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contrast the competitive advantages between a material processing operation and a customer processing operation‚ namely Dell and Tesco through the Neely criteria (2008). Both of these companies use a mix of customer (CPO)‚ materials (MPO) and information (IPO) processing. The transformation of all of these resources is considered‚ usually with one holding quintessential importance in the entire operations (Slack et al.‚ 2010). COMPANY PROFILES 2.1 Dell Dell currently is the fourth largest PC vendor in
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Heinz? American Greetings Case 1.The shares of American Greetings are currently trading at an EBITDA multiple that is at the bottom of its peer group. Do you think a 3.5-times multiple is appropriate for American Greetings? If not‚ what multiple of EBITDA do you think is justified? What is the implied share price that corresponds to that multiple? 2. Please model cash flows for American Greetings for fiscal years 2012 through 2015 based on the two sets of ratios in case Exhibit 8. Based on the discounted
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rollercoaster year. The one-millionth item was sold‚ and AuctionWeb officially changed its name to eBay (short for Echo Bay Technology Group‚ Omidyar’s consulting firm). eBay went public on September 21‚ 1998‚ and Omidyar became an instant billionaire. Currently‚ eBay comprises for three main businesses‚ or as the previous CEO Whitman calls ’the power of three’ strategy:1.The eBay Marketplace: eBay describes this as "online platform for the sale of goods and services by a passionate community of
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PART III: COMPREHENSIVE CASES ICMR ISS Cenler for Management Research www.lcmrlndlo.oig Case 5 Alibaba in 2011: Competing in China & Beyond "Alibaba has a first-mover advantage that makes it very hard for competitors to chip away at their lead in the rnarket."i -DICK WEI‚ Analyst‚ J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.‚ 1 in 2007. "For LIS‚ the goal has been to build a company that lasts 102 years and a company that changes China. We ’re only six years old‚ so while other people may call us a success‚ we
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Analysis of eBay China’s Failure and Suggestions to eBay’s Return Strategy from the Perspective of Cross-cultural Conflicts 1. Introduction Along with the development of global economy‚ no one is unfamiliar with the word of globalization‚ and the world is filled with multinational-corporations. In such circumstances‚ those companies have realized that the necessary way to survive in the global market and maintain the competitive advantages is to
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Long Case Study – Case #12 Google’s Strategy in 2010 Google’s mission statement is: “Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” The biggest management issues that we could see in this case were that Google’s management was pushing too hard its employees to keep its huge growth rates and forgot a little bit about its initial motto‚ which was “make money without doing evil”. Also‚ it was proved that Google helped the Chinese government
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time is the primary task of a search engine and it is not an easy task. Google did well in this and it becomes one of the key competitive advantages of Google products. Google ‘s diverse businesses contribute to its success significantly. “Since its IPO‚ Google had launched a flurry of products that expanded its domain beyond web search.” After 2000‚ the IT market is growing at a very fast speed and lots of fields are untouched. Google provide its products to an immature market so that it can capture
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LinkedIn Case Analysis Executive Summary LinkedIn Corporation went public on the New York Stock Exchange on May 18th‚ 2011. The Initial Public Offering documents listed the stock at $45 per share. It started trading the next day at an opening price of $83.20‚ peaked at $122.70‚ and closed at $94.25. This was an increase of 109.44% over the IPO price. Almost two years later‚ the stock has had its low points‚ but still its market price remains well above the value calculated by many analysts
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Case 17 Teaching Note Ebay: Facing the Challenge of Global Growth Overview This version of the eBay case has been substantially revised and extensively updated from the version that appeared in the 14th edition. While some of the fundamental material remains the same‚ the case includes new data and strategic issues that eBay’s managers must address as the company moves beyond the traditional auction niche that it now dominates largely unchallenged and as the company drives to continue
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