CASE: IB-88 DATE: 01/04/10 TAOBAO VS. EBAY CHINA Ten to 15 years from now‚ I think China can be eBay ’s largest market on a global basis…. We think China has tremendous long-term potential and we want to do everything we can to maintain 1 our No. 1 position. — Meg Whitman‚ eBay CEO‚ 2004 By 2008‚ Jack Ma‚ CEO of Alibaba.com Inc.‚ was in a position to consider how to fortify Taobao’s dominant position in China’s online consumer-to-consumer (C2C) market. Ma and his company had come a long way
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Harvard Business Review Case Study : The Customers’ Revenge by Dan Ariely (December 2007) As an introduction of this case‚ a little recall of the facts may not harm anyone. Atida is a 70 year old motor company‚ producing and selling stylish and innovative cars and they have just launched a new one on the market : the Andromeda XL. The brand has many loyal customers and devoted fans among various clubs and communities. Jim MacIntire and his colleagues from the customer service department have
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ABSTRACT In this globalization era‚ Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) has come to the surface of business life as a solution. When Multi-national companies decided to outsource its Human Resources Operations‚ they had only one major goal in mind and that is cutting costs. They have decided to outsource end-to-end human resource operations to third party and today it has become the greatest of exposures. This interesting solution is the main reason why this paper was being written. This paper will
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Management – Offshore Outsourcing It is now widely accepted that outsourcing is not just a cheap labor tactic‚ but also a strategic business decision. However‚ ethics and outsourcing continue to be burning issues for many businesses who want to make the move to outsourcing. Quality‚ control and cultural differences are a few concerns that keep coming up when one talks about the risks of outsourcing. For more than a decade‚ Outsource2india has worked with customers across the globe. One of our primary
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that she is concerned with the timeframe in which actions were taken on her child support case. She stated DHR finally provided her with an explanation as to why things took so long. She stated that back in 2013 she filed for DHR to enforce the child support payments from her ex-husband. She stated she had a child support worker (CSW)‚ then she got another CSW‚ they changed her worker several times‚ process the case for a court date; took a while for the court date to go through. She stated she
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Echo Bay Technologies – eBay International business June 2nd 2010 Outline I. Overview II. Echo Bay Technologies Market Entry Strategies III. Columns for 2007 and 2010: Internet Penetration in Latin America IV. Market features/characteristics of Latin America that must be understood by eBay V. A characteristic of eBay’s ideal or perfect strategic position after 2005 VI. Ebay’s Marketing Strategy for Latin America for 2001 to 2005 VII. Conclusion and Recommendation Echo Bay
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A Case analysis On MacDonald’s Sadikchya Acharya International American University Kings College Babarmahal‚ Kathmandu MBA Capstone Prof. Dr. Raj Kumar Sharma Kings College Babarmahal‚ Kathmandu Nepal History of McDonald’s They have amazing story of their own organization relative with the organizational learning they have really gained insight from their history which later on made a lot of contribution for what now is MacDonald’s I would like to elaborate their story with two divisions and
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global markets due to outsourcing white collar jobs. Workers in other countries like India do many different things such as tutoring‚ checking baggage‚ and x-rays for cheaper prices than here in the US‚ often with better results. Over half of the US jobs are going to India because of insourcing and outsourcing of companies. Majority of our customer service calls are being answered by foreign countries. Rwanda is one of the fastest growing places‚ due to outsourcing and have grown to 1.6
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I shared the outcome of usual error messages to my team. This is helpful in cases when the HCM‚ PM or CA does not understand the problem or unsure how to fix the issue. When working with a HCM/ PM who is not familiar with the decision support process‚ I provide them with Lumin articles that will help them gain a better understanding of our requirements and procedures. In some cases‚ I ask additional questions to gain a better understanding from the ADP team. It is helpful in situations where
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pros and cons of eBay’s playbook strategy. Pros of eBay’s playbook strategy are: • Develops suggestions as to how to drive traffic to the local eBay site through ads at a country’s most popular Web sites and search engines (as stated) • Dictates that products‚ info‚ and chat groups be created by buyers and sellers in that country (as stated) • eBay becomes part of the country’s internet because of the playbook • avoids problems associated with a cookie-cutter approach (as stated) - (avoids
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