1. How does Alibaba create a competitive advantage? Is this advantage sustainable? a) Alibaba hoped to pool enough stable transaction volume to negotiate bulk discounts from service providers and capture part of that discount for itself. As Ma put it‚ “If one million users are transacting daily‚ Citibank and UPS will come to me. We can offer a discount to customers in exchange for a commission. b) It also helped that Alibaba Group offered a host of services promoting online trade including:
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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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of Yahoo to Alibaba changed over time since 2005? 2005 was a tough year for Alibaba. Because of the US$100 million investment in China by eBay‚ Alibaba and its subsidiary – Taobao fell into a severe price war against eBay which hindered the profitability of the group and much more capital was needed for operational and technological improvement in order to win the battle. Under this circumstance‚ Alibaba formed a partnership with Yahoo! Inc. Yahoo invested US$1 billion in Alibaba and transferred
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Choose an online business and point out its EC activities and mechanism TAOBAO Brief introduction of TAOBAO TAOBAO is an online shopping websites in China. Any product could be sold and bought in this website. For example‚ clothes‚ food‚ insurances and so on. All people can sell or buy through Taobao. EC activities and Mechanism of Taobao EC Mechanism EC Activities Electronic Markets 1. Presence and Discovery‚ Find information Search Engines Shopping Carts 2. Buy‚ Sell
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Case write-off Alibaba Group Introduction: Jack Ma‚ who has a foreseen‚ started the Alibaba Company after his visit to U.S. He found that China jump into the online commerce market really soon. The company was focused on B2B business and its initial goal is to help small Chinese manufacturers connect with buyers. Alibaba grew quickly and still growing. It launched several wholly owned subsidiaries‚ such as Taobao‚ Alipay‚ Alisoft. Alibaba group is considered to be a huge success among
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Welcome to Alibaba.com! Presented by; Ronak Vijayvergia Sanjay Kumar Sahoo Sadu chaitanya Reddy Siba Vinith Alibaba.com Introduction Traditional Sourcing Lifecycle Search/ Discovery Evaluate Negotiate Transact Average sourcing cycle: 3.3 – 4.2 months 52% of time spent searching for/identifying appropriate suppliers 20% of time spent on screening/sorting proposals 18% of time spent on RFQ development/ RFQ response 10% of time spent on contract negotiations
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Business: Taobao online trading platform Strengths: 1. The leading individual trading online platform in Asia provided B2C and C2C e-commerce business model. 2. Create (Lead) a convenient and easy online shopping channel for consumer without using traditional retail channels. 3. Connect with a reliable payment method and online trading & paying system (Alipay支付寶) 4. A well-known brand for online trading platform in business field that can attract businesses to join and be the alliance with
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PART III: COMPREHENSIVE CASES ICMR ISS Cenler for Management Research www.lcmrlndlo.oig Case 5 Alibaba in 2011: Competing in China & Beyond "Alibaba has a first-mover advantage that makes it very hard for competitors to chip away at their lead in the rnarket."i -DICK WEI‚ Analyst‚ J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.‚ 1 in 2007. "For LIS‚ the goal has been to build a company that lasts 102 years and a company that changes China. We ’re only six years old‚ so while other people may call us a success‚ we
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Pivot of Supporting The Loan th The 17 “Hanju” Cup Financial Case Analysis Contest Analysis Report FINANCING ALIBABA’S BUYOUT： Case Report Name： Title： SYNDICATED LOAN IN ASIA PIVOT OF SUPPORTING THE LOAN Team Name： WINNERS DATE: 2014/10/20 1 Pivot of Supporting The Loan Context Abstract ..................................................................................................................................................3 1. Macro and Industry Analysis ...................
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largest online business-to-business global trading marketplace‚ with 2.5 million and 14 million registered users in its international and Chinese domestic marketplaces respectively (refer to Appendix 1 for key development milestones). In 2004‚ the Alibaba websites boasted an estimated combined transaction volume of more than US$4.5 billion. Alibaba.com also owns and operates Taobao.com‚ a business-toconsumer and consumer-to-consumer marketplace; Alipay‚ an online payment system in China; and Yahoo
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