46 The McKinsey Quarterly 2005 Number 1 David Williams E xtreme competition Extreme competition The forces of globalization‚ technology‚ and economic liberalization are combining to make life harder than ever for established companies. William I. Huyett and S. Patrick Viguerie Jack Welch once said that the 1980s would be a “white-knuckle” decade of intensifying industrial competition—and that the 1990s would be tougher still. Despite history’s greatest bull market‚ rising
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INTRODUCTION eBay Incorporated‚ a US company headquartered in San Jose‚ California‚ provides online marketplaces for the sale of goods and services‚ online payments services‚ and online communication offerings to individuals and business in the United States and internationally. With more than 90 million active users globally‚ their collective impact on e-commerce is staggering: In 2009‚ the total worth of goods sold on eBay was $60 billion — $2‚000 every second. The business strategy of eBay is exemplified
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December 2010 Submitted by: Atika Imtiaz (7184)‚Hira Sarwar (7208)‚ Khadija Tahir (7554)‚ M. Waqas Moghul (7727)‚ Natasha Akber (7546)‚Shayan Rasool(8093) Submitted to: Mr. AbdulQadir Molvi | Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENT 3 eBay 4 INTRODUCTION TO eBAY : 5 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS OF THE CASE: 7 PORTER’S FIVE – FORCES MODEL: 11 RIVALRY AMONGST COMPETING SELLERS: 12 SUPPLIERS 13 THREAT OF SUBSTITUTES 14 BUYERS 14 THREAT OF NEW ENTRANTS 15 INTERNAL AUDIT: 17 EXTERNAL AUDIT 19
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Competitive Strategic Management (QGM6163) | eBay Inc.: Bidding for the Future | | | | | | Introduction Founded on 1995 by Pierre Omidyar‚ eBay was considered a pioneer in the online auction industry whereby people are brought together on a local‚ national and international basis to serve the purpose of creating a person-to-person community where ever individual could have an equal access through the same medium which is the Internet. eBay offers wide varieties of products and
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Introduction Amazon and Ebay are two well-known brands of online shopping sites. They have evolved and grown from small firms to the giants of e-commerce today. In this essay‚ a comparison would be made between the two firms. Questioning the types of business models Amazon and Ebay’s have employed and how they have evolved over time‚ the driving factors of change‚ and finally the future outlook of each firm help distinguish the trails both firms made to become the two leaders in the market of
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY eBay‚ Inc. is the largest and most popular marketplace on the Internet‚ allowing members to buy and sell almost anything. Launched in 1995‚ about 147 million people now use eBay. An estimated 430‚000 people in the United States make all or most of their living by selling on eBay. eBay’s online payment service‚ called PayPal‚ enables transactions nearly anywhere in the world. eBay proclaims “trust” between buyers and sellers as the key to the success of the marketplace. eBay is the “The
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1‚083 Rebecca Payne ECO2023 Pray 11-19-2012 eBay & Weird Al Business Structures There are a variety of different business structures that comprise the market in the world today. The most common ones found in the business world today are sole proprietorships‚ partnerships‚ and corporations. From these you will also find monopolies and oligopolies. Economists assume there are a number of different buyers and sellers in the market which leads to competition which allows prices to change
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Client goal Our client is RefreshNow! Soda. RefreshNow! is a top 3 beverage producer in the U.S. and has approached McKinsey for help in designing a product launch strategy. Description of RefreshNow! Soda As an integrated beverage company‚ RefreshNow! leads its own brand design‚ marketing and sales efforts. In addition‚ the company owns the entire beverage supply chain‚ including production of concentrates‚ bottling and packaging‚ and distribution to retail outlets. RefreshNow! has a considerable
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between eBay and Taobao in Chinese Online Auction Market BSAD 415:66 Electronic Business Prof. G. Trites Jie Yue (Kathy) 200706289 June 10‚ 2008 1 Introduction Being the largest online trading company‚ eBay has launched websites across the world‚ including thirty other countries in addition to its original U.S. website. China‚ with its large online market‚ is one of these countries. In 2003‚ after its cooperation with Eachnet‚ the first C2C online company in China‚ eBay became
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Table of Contents Introduction: 2 PART A: Chapter Summary 3 PART B: Background and Case summary 5 EBay’s Background 5 Case Summary: Making eBay work 6 PART C: Case Questions 7 Case Question #1: 7 Case Question #2: 10 Case Question #3 10 PART D: Implications and Recommendation 12 Implications 12 Recommendations 13 Introduction: Strategic capabilities have become a source of competitive advantage for both small and large organization. Organizations that wish to survive
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