Georgetown University Center for Public & Nonprofit Leadership Marketing & Communications in Nonprofit Organizations David Williamson Essays on Excellence Lessons from the Georgetown Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program © 2009 Center for Public and Nonprofit Leadership Georgetown University Georgetown Public Policy Institute Essays on Excellence Lessons from the Georgetown Nonprofit Management Executive Certificate Program Advocacy in the Public Interest
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1. How does Alibaba create a competitive advantage? Is this advantage sustainable? a) Alibaba hoped to pool enough stable transaction volume to negotiate bulk discounts from service providers and capture part of that discount for itself. As Ma put it‚ “If one million users are transacting daily‚ Citibank and UPS will come to me. We can offer a discount to customers in exchange for a commission. b) It also helped that Alibaba Group offered a host of services promoting online trade including:
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and leadership. MaYun‚ born in poverty but full of foresight and ambition‚ has led his team to generate billions of annual profits and demonstrated a credible example of how a small start-up company can eventually make it big in the global economy through the internet. This article mainly aims at exploring the leadership of MaYun and drawing lessons from it. Background Ma was born in September 10‚ 1964 up in Hangzhou‚ China. He was 12 years old when he became interested in learning English. The
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Introduction In 1999 Jack Ma was living in a small apartment with his wife in Hangzhou‚ China‚ when he came up with the idea for Alibaba. That little idea‚ of course‚ evolved into one of the biggest tech companies on the planet and made Ma a billionaire many times over. Just like the garages where Hewlett-Packard‚ Apple and Google were started‚ the apartment in Hangzhou is now a shrine—another sacred spot in the tech world. Alibaba.com is the flagship company of Alibaba Group‚ is the world’s
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brought in to save MAS‚ he did what any simple minded businessman would do as a simple way out; sell its assets to get the balance sheet in order. Never in MAS history have it ever tried to improve its business dealings and activities. The Malaysia Airline System (MAS) reported a loss of over RM1.3 billion for the Financial Year 2005. It was unacceptable to many parties such as the stakeholders and the government especially the announcement was made at the same time as some of MAS regional competitors
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1. About non-profits: Briefly describe what type of organization qualifies as a “non-profit” or community benefit organization. An organization that will qualifies as a non-profit organization would be an organization serving homeless individuals with healthcare‚ meals‚ shelter and social services. An example of a non-profit organization in Fresno‚ CA is the Poverello House which offers all the services said above. How does society benefit from having a healthy community of CBO’s? Society
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The Pink Door Non Profit Organization that tries to create financial relief for women battling any type of cancer. The organization became a nationally classified non profit in October of 2007. The 990 form is a public document that discloses a company policies and financial stability. Many stake holder look to evaluate this form to develop interest in getting involved financially with a company. It is important that a non profit organization is operating in the most efficient way in order to gain
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Budgeting is the systematic method of allocating financial‚ physical‚ and human resources to achieve an organization ’s strategic goals. Budgets are utilized by for-profit and non-profit organizations to monitor the progress towards the goals‚ assist in the control of spending‚ and help predict cash flow for the organization. The central challenge that budget developers encounter is predicting what the future holds for the internal business and external factors. Reading the future is something
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Target clients and strategic objective 9 D. Establishment course 10 E. Opportunities and Challenges 11 F. Evaluate 12 G. Conclusion: 13 Section C: Reference 13 Section A: Alibaba A. Introduction Alibaba Group was founded by Ma Yun (Jack Ma) and other 17 people in 1999 in Hangzhou. It is the first electronic commerce company in china‚ which provides a platform for small and medium-sized manufacturers to trade products both in domestic and foreign market. It is generally recognized
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Nonprofit and For-Profit Organizations? Submitted By: Dietrice Watkins Strayer University For: Professor Gerry Patnode Date June 21‚ 2008 Abstract Academic researchers have not found it important to attempt to complete studies based on leadership in non-profit organizations. A main problem that arises is that people tend to confuse the terms leadership and management with each other. Also leadership researchers tend to associate leadership in non-profit organizations with
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