HKU701 JIANGYONG LU ZHIGANG TAO EBAY’S STRATEGY IN CHINA: ALLIANCE OR ACQUISITION In December 2006, eBay Inc., a US company that offered e-commerce, e-payments and internet communication services globally, announced its plan to form a joint venture with China-based online portal and wireless operator, TOM Online, in which eBay would have 49% ownership.1 The move reflected the increasing difficulties foreign internet companies were facing in their attempts to snatch a share of the Chinese market
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INFO 410 Case Studies 1-2 Handout General Instructions Case studies are to be performed as described in the syllabus and in the Chapter 1 lecture notes. The questions provided here are NOT designed to be comprehensive steps, just some of the points I’d expect you to address while doing the case studies. So please go beyond the issues identified here; these are just help to get you started. 1. Case Study I-1 IBM’s Decade of Transformation: Turnaround to Growth (starts on page 5)
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The Internet Bubble Burst Sandra D’Adamo Intro to E-Commerce March 27, 2014 Professor MacKenzie Table of Contents Introduction………………………………………………………………………………..3 How the World Wide Web Began………………………………………………………….4 Tim Berners Lee……………………………………………………………………………4 How the Bubble Inflated…………………………………………………………………..5 How the Bubble Popped…………………………………………………………………..6 What Lessons were Learned……………………………………………………………….7 Could it have been Stopped………………………………………………………………… Introduction The
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Extended Case Study 6 The rise and fall of Marconi Background There can be few who are not aware of the spectacular crash of Marconi, which, in the space of two years, went from a share value of £12.50 to under 2p, a stock market valuation of £35bn to just a few million pounds, and a profit of £750m to a loss of some £5.6bn, one of the biggest in UK corporate history. Marconi grew out of GEC, the giant industrial conglomerate built by Arnold Weinstock. In a period when the UK’s industrial
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Instructions 1. o 1 Find the price-to-earnings ratio, which is widely published for individual stocks and broader markets on Yahoo! Finance, MSN Money and other financial websites. The P/E ratio of a stock is equal to the price divided by the earnings per share, which is the net income minus preferred dividends, divided by the number of outstanding shares. o 2 Compare the P/E ratio of a stock to its industry peers and the overall market. A stock that is trading at a comparatively
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CHAPTER 1 Homework Solutions Problems 15, 21, 25 15. a. Quantitative – number of new drugs approved b. Time series from 1996 to 2003 c. 18 d. 2002; 16 new drugs e. Over the eight-year period, the number of new drugs approved by the FDA declined. From approximately 50 new drugs approved in 1996, the most recent years are showing only 16 to 18 new drugs approved. 21. a. The two populations
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Dot.com Bubble Christopher Smirnes Professor: Dr. D The Dot.com bubble, otherwise known as the Dot.com boom was one of the most significant events in the Internets history. It brought upon millions upon millions of dollars in losses and many of these start up companies never even made a profit. The business world was flipped upside down, and a whole new world was opening up to entrepreneurs. However, since this was such a new technology, as with anything
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Hidden flaws in strategy Charles Roxburgh The McKinsey Quarterly, 2003 Number 2 After nearly 40 years, the theory of business strategy is well developed and widely disseminated. Pioneering work by academics such as Michael E. Porter and Henry Mintzberg has established a rich literature on good strategy. Most senior executives have been trained in its principles, and large corporations have their own skilled strategy departments. Yet the business world remains littered with examples of bad strategies
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1.Strategic Directions Although Cyclermate management have persuaded the bank to continue funding for the short-term, the directors of the company realise that they have to think about the longer term. Further discussion with Dai’s cousin have established that he continues to be interested in helping, both in financial and management terms. Furthermore, he has apparently persuaded the famous entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Sir Claude Solstice to consider the possibility of involvement in
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Planning 1. Companies selected for project 1. Industry sector: Travel and leisure Company name: Carnival plc 2. Industry sector: Support Services Company name: Bunzl plc 3. Industry sector: Banks Company name: Standard Chartered 4. Industry sector: Media Company name: Personal plc 2. Approach to the project I use the Fundamental Analysis and “top-down” approach to select appropriate stock. 3. Justification for choices Dylan (47) and Ella (45) have been
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