HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL CASE: Google Inc. (Abridged) 2nd case report Fall Semester 2013 Seoul‚ 10th September 2013 submitted by: Karl Rempel Asternweg 5 67551 Worms +49 160 990 100 78 karl.rempel@fh-worms.de student-id: 9100420130 Summary The Harvard Business Case “Google Inc. (Abridged)” from December 14 th 2010‚ written by Benjamin Edelman and Thomas R. Eisenmann‚ describes Google’s history‚ business model‚ governance structure‚ corporate culture‚ and processes for managing
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12 Google Inc. (2010): The Future of the Internet Search Engine Patricia A. Ryan Google began with a mission: to create the ultimate search engine to help users tame the unruly and exponentially growing repository of information that is the Internet. And most would agree that when the word “Google” became a verb‚ that mission was largely accomplished.1 IT HAD BEEN NEARLY SIX YEARS SINCE GOOGLE’S ATTENTION-grabbing initial public offering and‚ despite overall stock market weakness‚ Google remained
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technology that provided access to 1 billion web pages using an algorithmic search technology. Google’s business model included paid listings and related paid listings‚ which gave Google an advantage in selling advertising. Sergey Brin‚ Larry Page‚ and Eric Schmidt were the management triangle that brought Google to the lead of the web search industry. Their powerful business sense‚ groundbreaking ideas‚ and engineering and business experience have made Google the dominant company that it is today. They were
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external factors that are influencing Google and will force it to adapt in order to continue its success and market edge. Although all of these changes can be a threat for Google‚ and they also represent an excellent chance for Google to improve their company and products offered. One of the biggest external factors that influence Google is the constantly changing Mobile technology and communication market. Phone technology is constantly changing and Google must be able to change alongside it to
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creativity. Among those tech giants‚ Google has distanced itself by offering spectacular and unique on-site employee benefits. Those remarkable benefits have pushed Google to the top of Fortune’s 100 “best companies to work for list” for the last 4 years. (money.cnn.com‚ 2013) Google incorporated as a private US company in 1998 (Google Milestones‚ 2012) and is a perfect example of modern employee-centric policies and benefits. In an employee-centric culture‚ a free flow of communication‚ ideas
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Google has a unique approach to everything that it does and its approach to Human Resources Management is no exception. “Ranked by Fortune Magazine as the best of the 100 best companies to work for‚” (Book 712) Google seems to be excelling at Human Resources by taking an unconventional route to getting the job done just like their business decisions. One of Google’s methods is to correlate personal traits from employees’ survey answers to actual performance and then using the collected data to
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Google Inc. Study Questions 1. What were the key factors behind Google’s early success? 1. Better search algorithm (PageRank). 2. More indexed web pages (over one billion in the first year) 3. Fast‚ and user-friendly interface and search experience. 4. Effectively being able to monetize searches 2. Do you expect the search business to become more concentrated (i.e.‚ dominated by fewer firms)? Is search a winner-take-all business? I do expect that the search business will become
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Company Overview History Google Inc. is an Internet/computer software company which hosts many internet based and software services and products. At its core is google.com –the world’s top search engine. Google’s stated mission is “to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful”. Google was founded by two PhD candidates at Stanford University –Larry Page and Sergey Brin. It was incorporated on Sept. 4‚ 1998 and went public on Aug. 19‚ 2004. The company’s
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Google Inc. began in 1996 as the brainchild of two bright computer science grad students‚ Sergey Brin and Larry Page. These two intellectually gifted men met in 1995 at Stanford University where they were doing their PhDs. During their time together at Stanford‚ both came up with creative ways of finding and organizing large amounts of data. After that‚ Brin and Page developed a technology called PageRank that enabled them to analyze a particular website’s significance. The idea of a search engine
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Google Case 1. Discuss competition in the search industry. Which of the five competitive forces seem strongest? weakest? What is your assessment of overall industry attractiveness? Competition in the search industry is high. There are several search engines available‚ albeit Google holds the top percentage. Some of Google’s opposing forces are Yahoo!‚ Bing‚ and MSN search. The strongest is competitive rivalry and the weakest is buyer power. There is a big rivalry amongst search engines
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