SKYPE In the hands of eBay, Silver Lake, and Microsoft Larry Fan, Aly Kassim-Lakha, Betty Liu, Cristina Peruyera, and Kimberly Yao December 12th, 2014 Professor Emilie Feldman MGMT 249 Fan, Kassim-Lahka, Liu, Peruyera & Yao | MGMT 249 Executive Summary Skype was founded to build and provide a telecommunications application, and despite many changes in ownership, its core business has not drastically changed over the years. Over the past decade, Skype has seemingly thrived to varying degrees
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Process Part I: eBay’s Strategic Process Our Mission eBay's mission is to provide a global trading platform where practically anyone can trade practically anything. Our Marketplace On an average day, there are millions of items listed on eBay. People come to the eBay marketplace to buy and sell items in thousands of categories including antiques and art, books, business & industrial, cars & other vehicles, clothing & accessories, coins, collectibles, crafts, dolls & bears, electronics & computers, home
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AU2 Advanced External Auditing Question 2 a) Three specific business strategies that explain eBay’s decision to offer good for sale at fixed prices: 1. Expand into New Markets: With the shrinking market of auction bidders on eBay and a growing market of fixed price buyers, customers may not prefer to go in the direction of purchasing goods in an online auction. Since, in an online auction the customer has to wait till the end of the auction to see which buyer with the highest
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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 services for bargain hunters, hobbyists and collectors and sellers, changing the way people engage in trading hence eBay had changed the face
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Seller Guide Roadmap to Success July 2013 Action plan Ready: Start your engine q Register as a business on eBay and get access to exclusive services Go: Accelerate your sales q Experiment with a variety of formats q Write great titles with relevant keywords and describe items completely (including flaws) multiple angles on a neutral background Winner’s circle: Earn eBay Top Rated status and rewards q Complete 100 transactions with $1,000 in sales from US buyers least 98% q Create
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eBay Structures Its Bid For Change Kendra L. Brown Webster University eBay Structures Its Bid For Change Problem Statement Adoption of an improper organizational structure design that is not flexible enough to the unstable and the rapidly changing external environment in eBay’s domestic and international markets. Analysis and Evaluation A functional organizational structure with various operational areas, such as finance, operations, human resources, and legal
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ABSTRACT eBay Inc. is an American multinational internet consumer-to-consumer corporation, headquartered in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1995, and became a notable success story of the dot-com bubble; it is now a multi-billion dollar business with operations localized in over thirty countries. The company manages eBay.com, an online auction and shopping website in which people and businesses buy and sell a broad variety of goods and services worldwide. Millions of collectibles, decor
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Amazon vs. eBay Choice of Investment James Reitnour Strayer University ACC 557 Professor Frank Gorbey September 2, 2013 Amazon vs. eBay Choice of Investment Deciding between two stocks to invest in can be like attempting to predict what number will come up next on a roulette wheel; it is a gamble to say the least. However, by following the first major rule about investing in a company, namely doing your homework, it is possible to make an informed choice between two companies. The choice
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Answer to eBay questions. 1. Five-force model: Potential entrants: relatively strong. The company is in an industry that is growing both locally and globally. Also the capital for launching an online website is very low. The bargaining power of buyers: weak to medium. The increasing buyer demand online is reducing the bargaining power of buyers. Competition from substitutes: very strong. There are many substitutes for eBay’s online services such as online retailers like amazon.com. The bargaining
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Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon.com Life and work story of Jeff Bezos Career Pathways Period of Time Came to this new-established firm after graduate from university Fitel 1986 1990 Worked as a computer science specialist then pointed as a senior vice president D. E. Shaw & Co. 2013 Purchased the newspaper section for $250 million cash of TWP The Washington Post Introduced Amazon.com to public and successfully made $20,000 sales in a week and kept improving the site till
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