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    Amazon Case

    Johana Rosales February 26, 2016 1. My assessment of the long-term viability of Amazon’s business model it will become greatly successful as the big retailers. The idea of selling products at competitive prices is great. Everyone now is looking for a cheaper and a better alternative to save money. Another good thing is that it permits individuals or third parties to sell their products on the website. It will attract more people and give them opportunities to promote and sell their product

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    Aftershock

    AFTERSHOCK Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown Kevin Ung Economics 309, Fall 2010, Section 2 Professor N. Pulchritudoff December 9, 2010 In 2006, with home values high and credit flowing, authors David Wiedemer, Robert Wiedemer, and Cindy Spitzer accurately predicted the popping of the housing bubble, the collapse of the private debt bubble, the fall of the stock market bubble, the decline of consumer spending, and the widespread pain all of this was about

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    The Do-Com Bubble

    University of Chicago Press Volume ISBN: 0-226-10726-4 Volume URL: http://www.nber.org/books/clar06-2 Conference Date: June 1-2, 2005 Publication Date: May 2007 Title: The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account Author: Aart Kraay, Jaume Ventura URL: http://www.nber.org/chapters/c0124 11 The Dot-Com Bubble, the Bush Deficits, and the U.S. Current Account Aart Kraay and Jaume Ventura 11.1 Introduction Since the early 1990s, the United States has experienced steadily widening

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    Why Has Amazon.Com Succeeded Online

    of the Amazon case study, page 444, Marketing Management, 14th edition, Kotler and Keller from the perspective of the writer. Discussion In nearly eighteen years of existence, Amazon has never found it hard to attract investors. When the dot com bubble burst, Amazon was one of the few survivors. Within a year of the general collapse, Amazon declared its first profitable quarter. What has been remarkable is Amazon’s ability to structure its business model in unexpected ways. Because of the massive

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    Dot Com Crash of 2000

    1. What is the intended role of each of the institutions and intermediaries discussed in the case for the effective functioning of capital markets? The institutions and their roles are as below: * Venture capitalists: VC’s provide capital to high potential, high risk companies in their early stages of development. In return they seek to provide very high rate of return to their investors for the associated risk. VC’s screen for good business ideas and management teams from the bad ones. They

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    Investments : Industry Life Cycle

    Jorge Porres August 18, 2013 Investments Keiser University Week 3 Essays 1. Industry Life Cycle: Discuss the industry life cycle, how this concept can be used by security analysts, and the limitations of this concept for security analysis. The industry life cycle is made up of five stages: 1. Pioneer phase: This face is characterized by the high cost of production and the low demand of the product by the market. Mostly made up of start-ups. 2. Growth phase: When sales start to grow

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    Ibm Decades of Transformation

    1) What factors led to IBM’s success during the 1960’s and 1970s and its problems during the late 1980 and early1990s? IBM’s success in the 1960’s and 1970’s was driven by the vision of CEO Thomas Watson Jr. as evidenced by IBM’s $5 billion development investment into the System/360, “the biggest privately financed commercial project ever”. The System/360, “transformed the industry”, along with IT innovations such as development of the FORTRAN, the hard disk, the floppy disk, IBM supermarket checkout

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    Dot Com

    CASE STUDY: THE ROLE OF CAPITAL MARKET INTERMEDIARIES IN THE DOT-COM CRASH OF 2000 Question 1 Venture Capitalists: The intended role should be to fund effectively picked out unlisted growth companies with promising business ideas and talented value driven management teams from those companies that do not reflect these characteristics. As VC’s typically encounter high risk upon investing, they also demand a high return that often comes in the form of a sell out of shares after an IPO. Putting

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    Amazon

    Kunchok Wangmo Amazon Business Model Due date- March 17,2013 Amazon.com, Inc. is a multinational electronic commerce company, initially started off as an online bookstore, but soon diversified, selling DVDs, CDs, MP3 downloads, software, video games, electronics, apparel, furniture, food, toys, and jewelry. An American entrepreneur named Jeffrey Preston Bezos founded it in 1994. It has employees over or around 28,300. It is the global leader in e-commerce. It is mostly known for its wide range of

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    Cyclermate Phase 2

    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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