HULT INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS SCHOOL Google Inc. Strategic Case Analysis Fenway Cohort Team 3 Nasrat Dernaika Nikhil Srivastava Kiet Long Viktor Elkin Jorge Vilaplana March 28‚ 2012 Table of Contents 1.Google’s Early Key Success Factors 2 1.1 Innovated and Differentiated Search Engine 2 1.2 Innovated Advertising Ranking 2 1.3Expansion of Search-Related Advertising 2 2.Is Search A Winner-Take-All Business? 3 2.1 Multi homing costs 3 2.2 Strong network
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Introduction and Key Points [pic] Google is a multinational internet and software corporation that specializes in internet search‚ cloud computing‚ and advertising technologies. It hosts and develops a number of internet-based services and products‚ and generates profit primarily from advertising through its AdWords program. Its mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. Some of its many successful products are Gmail‚ Google Chrome‚ Google Docs‚ Google
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* Introduced AdWords‚ advertising program * Enabled Google to make money * 2001- Google is profitable * 2002- Generated $440 million in revenue * 2005- Share price at $414 * Giving Google $123 billion equity market value * 2004-2005- Google grows though innovations and additions to company: * Google Book Search‚ Google Finance‚ Gmail‚ Google Calendar‚ Google Docs‚ Google Maps‚ Google Mobile * 2007- Attracting 587.8 million users/month
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simple idea proposed in a dorm room by Larry Page and Sergey Brin grow into this huge giant of the business world? The purpose of this case study is to examine the reasons as well as possible scenarios that will help Google lead the charge throughout the new millennium. 1) Evaluate Google using the competitive forces and value chain models. There are several information systems that companies may apply their business strategy to‚ in hopes‚ of achieving a competitive advantage. Two of these models that
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KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY “KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT – GOOGLE INC.” Santiago Loyola One of the leading global corporations that incorporate KM within their company is Google Inc. The corporation has been dominating as the world’s most valuable brand for the last four years‚ until Apple Inc. overtook them in May 2011. Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin‚ Ph.D. students at Stanford‚ working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP’s goal was “to
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13 7. Sources 14 1. Introduction By looking at today’s market it is noticeable that innovation and fast reaction on the market changes is one of the key-components for success. During our research we have realized that even the fastest-growing company in the world – Google – is having difficulities‚ therefore we decided to look into the problems of the organization and propose some changes that would protect the company to be “too big and too slow”. As our
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Google Case What were the key factors behind Google’s early success? The main key factor for Google’s early success was the creation of PageRank algorithm. Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page transformed the spam problem of all search engines into an opportunity by creating an algorithm that favored pages that were referenced by other pages rather than simply counting key words. The page’s importance was determined by counting its inbound links‚ weighting the links more heavily
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Stakeholders can be defined as all entities that are impacted through a business running its operations and conducting other activities related to its existence. The impact can be direct in the case of the business’s customers and suppliers or indirect in the case of the communities in which the business chooses to place its locations. Businesses must consider the needs and expectations of its stakeholders‚ though it need not consider them to be of equal importance. Certain stakeholders such as owners
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The Shareholders vs. Stakeholders Debate T he stakeholder theorists smell blood. Scandals at Enron‚ Global Crossing‚ ImClone‚ Tyco International and WorldCom‚ concerns about the independence of accountants who are charged with auditing financial statements‚ and questions about the incentive schema and investor recommendations at Credit Suisse First Boston and iMerrill Lynch have all provided rich fodder for those who question the premise of shareholder supremacy. Many observers have claimed that
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HR PRACTICES IN GOOGLE 1. Building innovation into job descriptions: ’20 percent time ’ Technical employees are required to spend 80% of their time on the core search and advertising businesses‚ and 20% on technical projects of their own choosing." "Employees ’ work structure follows a ’70/20/10 ’ model‚ 2. Eliminating friction at every turn: ensuring change can happen quickly and efficiently Google’s approach to innovation is highly improvisational. Any engineer in the company has a
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