UVA-F-1357 EBAY INC. (A) Gary Bengier‚ Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Operations at eBay‚ clicked on the send button as he emailed the week’s financial update to Pierre Omidyar‚ the company’s 31-year old chairman. It was September 15‚ 1998 and Wall Street was still reeling from a summer of severe market volatility. Much of the market’s instability could be traced to bearish worries over a deepening and continuing economic crisis in Asia and other developing markets. Many investors
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Introduction EBay was founded in 1995 in San Jose by Pierre Omidyar a computer programmer. It is originally called Auction Web and is divided in three segments: marketplaces or platforms‚ payment (PayPal)‚ and the communication segment (Skype). EBay Inc. is available in 28 languages over 225 countries. It has no clear or fixed Vision and Mission statements‚ but you can find a yearly vision in the financial statements. Main issues for eBay Inc. There is no clear issue‚ but we think that eBay Inc. faces
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Consequently a company must plan strategies that address any changes in the market. ebay Inc. is the world’s largest and most popular person-to-person trading community on the internet (Bradley‚ 2001‚ p. 1). From its inception eBay was unchallenged however with amazon.com’s (Amazon) entrance into the online person-to-person auction arena and other competition from Yahoo! Auctions‚ Auction Universe‚ and OnSale‚ eBay was faced with the issue of how to separate themselves from competitors and maintain
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Journal of Financial Stability 3 (2007) 85–131 A market-based framework for bankruptcy prediction Alexander S. Reisz a‚∗ ‚ Claudia Perlich b‚1 a U.S. Treasury Department‚ Office of the Comptroller of the Currency‚ 250 E Street SW‚ Mail Stop 2-1‚ Washington‚ DC 20219‚ United States b Data Analytics Research Group‚ IBM T.J. Watson Research Center‚ 1101 Kitchawan Road‚ Route 134‚ P.O. Box 218‚ Yorktown Heights‚ NY 10598‚ United States Received 12 October 2006; received in revised form 16
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TIFFANY INC. v. eBAY‚ INC. Facts: Tiffany Inc. authorized eBay Inc. to list its trademark on the e-market website. Many of these listings are authentic but a large number are also counterfeit. Ebay makes substantial investments in anti counterfeiting initiatives. It has developed and uses a fraud engine that finds listings containing obvious indicia of infringing activity. It also has established its Verified Rights Owner (VeRO) program that utilizes a notice-and-takedown system under which trademark
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(SPACE) Matrix 23 Appendix 3: Boston Consulting Group (BCG) Matrix 24 Appendix 4: Internal – External (IE) Matrix 25 Appendix 5: Grand Strategy Matrix 26 Appendix 6: Quantitative Strategic Planning Matrix (QSPM) 27 1.0 Company Profile Ebay Inc is the world’s online marketplace which enabling trade on a local‚ national and international basis. Ebay offers an online platform where millions of items are traded each day with a diverse fashion‚ home and garden‚ electronics and technology‚ sports and
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eBay Case Threshold resources • Offices and facilities • IT server platforms and appropriate software • Personnel with in-depth IT knowledge • All other appropriate personnel • Sufficient customers and suppliers Threshold competences Unique resources • Being the first • Web 2.0 management skills • Electronic platform management skills • Leading technology expert • Active community of users • eBay brand • Partnering on the internet • Biggest electronic exchange platform SWOT analyse:
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CASE 26 1. The ethical pressure and dilemmas of the BP Oil spill stem from the severity of the situation and long term impact of this disaster. From a society aspect to the environmental hazards‚ everybody has been‚ and will be affected long term. The ethical issues in this case is the compensation to people who have suffered mental illness problems i.e. PTSD due to this spill. The determination of such claims‚ bogus or not have to be judged accordingly. The ideology of this being a long term
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Case 2 : Bob’s Boat Rentals Submitted By Group 26 : Ajay Kumar Anshuman Sachan Chitra Chakravarty Harpreet Kaur Padda Prasanth John Abraham Rajiv Ranjan Saurav Kumar Smit Patel Problems with current operations Revenue received for the boat rental service for year 1988 was almost half the expected revenue. Dip in revenue mainly cause of bad weather conditions in one week. Advertising needs to be increased to increase customer base. Action Plan for next season Increase the number
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1. What are the greatest opportunities and threats existing in eBay’s current external environment? In the current external environment the online sales are still a growth industry there are some opportunities for ebay‚ the actual global economic crisis it could be an opportunity due the unemployment and the decrease in the power purchasing parity and mortgage crisis generates two effects‚ first the buyers are look for discounts‚ and second the sellers by this channel could increases. The importance
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