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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Millions of buyers and sellers have made eBay Inc. the world’s largest and most popular Internet site for individuals and businesses to exchange goods. By 1999 eBay had 5.6 million registered users and listed over 3.1 million items for sale; by 2004 there were an estimated 65 million registered users from 150 countries‚ 971 million items for sale‚ and gross merchandise sales hit $15billion. eBay owns local sites in 19 countries‚ has stakes in another eight foreign nations‚ and provides users with
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Evaluation Matrix (IFE Matrix) Critical Success Factors Weight Rating Weighted Scores Strength A savvy management team and a venture capital backing 0.20 3 0.60 Continuously well financial management and high gross margin profit 0.05 4 0.20 A flexible financial flexibility to pursued strategic acquisitions and alliances 0.05 3 0.15 Good relationship with strong channel suppliers 0.05 4 0.20 Well community building plan and strong brand loyalty and consumer involvement 0.20 4 0.80 Weakness
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Case: Taobao VS eBay China This case deals with the competition of dominant position in China’s online market between domestic player Taobao and global internet C2C service leader eBay. EachNet was copyed from eBay’s business model. As it confronted the difficulties raising capital‚ eBay entered China with its acquisition of the EachNet in 2002. The previous Chinese operation was changed significantly to align it with eBay worldwide systems including listing categorization‚ location of servers
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please make sure that you 1. Submit a single file per weekly assignment‚ be it Excel or Word. 2. Include your name when you “name the file” so that I know who gets the grade and feedback‚ once I have all the files downloaded for grading. I am counting on you to follow these basic efficiency requirements so that am in a position to provide quicker feedback turnaround. Thanks and hope you find the following sample responses helpful in preparing for week-1. Good luck! Student Name:
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Customer Technical Support Experience with InterTech Introduction I am very grateful that I have achieved a portion of my goals before I am too old. It was the year 2001-2004; I was enrolled and studying to be a computer technician at Western Nebraska Community College. I learned how to troubleshoot computers; program websites‚ and work in a database program. As I graduated for the first time at Western Nebraska Community College as a Computer Technician in May 2004‚ I was persuaded to continue
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Jamie D’Arco Introduction to Outsourcing Outsourcing is when a company uses another outside company to fulfill goods or services needed for their own company in order to cut costs. Also‚ it is usually practiced more successfully by larger companies and businesses. For example‚ one company may use another outside company for call services‚ email or pay roll because it is cheaper than for them to have an in-house department take care of these tasks. Today there are companies that exist for the
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also exist‚ division to division‚ office to office. In this part of this group assignment I will describe the organizational culture of one of the most famous internet companies in the world‚ which is also the largest marketplace in the internet – EBay. Many articles and books have been written in recent years about culture in organizations‚ usually referred to as "Corporate Culture." The dictionary defines culture as "the act of developing intellectual and moral faculties‚ especially through
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1. Why has eBay struggled in Japan‚ China and other Asia markets? eBay is an online auction service whose business model is ideally suited to the Web. EBay stores no inventory and ships no products. Instead‚ it derives its revenue from the movement of information‚ an ideal task for the Internet. EBay has taken its model to numerous foreign markets and been successful‚ particularly in England‚ France‚ and Germany‚ however‚ eBay has failed to achieve the same success in the Asian markets. There
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