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The Entrepreneur's Dilemma: Alibaba, Tencent and Amazon as e-Commerce Platforms
Ning Su; Yulin Fang; Haibin Yang; Yukun Yang; Xin QiuCase IVEY-9B15E015-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategyA nascent women’s apparel online store on Tmall, China's largest business-to-consumer retail platform operated by Alibaba Group, was just beginning to establish itself on the online market utilizing the tools and services provided by Tmall to develop and operate its business. Within four months after the business was launched, Tmall unexpectedly released a new policy which significantly increased the annual service fee and cash deposit for indivi...Starting at €8.20
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Rakuten: To Stay or Not To Stay In The UK
Naoto Nadayama; Arto LindblomCase IVEY-9B20M022-EStrategyIn 2016, Rakuten, the largest e-commerce company in Japan, was at the crossroads of its UK operations. After 2008, Rakuten had accelerated internationalization, mainly by acquiring local e-commerce companies. In the foreign markets, Rakuten leveraged its e-commerce platform model, with which it had achieved huge success in the Japanese e-commerce market in the 2000s. In 2011, it acquired UK-based e-commerce company, Play.com. At that time, Play.c...Starting at €8.20
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Financing Alibaba's Buyout: Syndicated Loan in Asia
Emir HrnjićCase IVEY-9B14N011-EFinance, StrategyAlibaba is the world’s largest online trading platform, with higher revenues than Amazon and eBay combined. Its 2012 syndicated loan was the first sizable loan for a Chinese technology company with few tangible assets. Creative loan covenants stated that the subsidiaries would repatriate 100 per cent of the distributable profits for debt service. The loan was partially used for the buyback of Yahoo!’s stake in Alibaba. In the agreement, Yahoo! wo...Starting at €8.20
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The Alibaba Group and Online to Offline (O2O) Sales
Neil Bendle; Xin (Shane) Wang; Xiaoqian (Vivian) ChenCase IVEY-9B15A035-EMarketing, StrategyIn the fall of 2014, the Alibaba Group, an e-commerce company that operates domestic and international marketplaces and provides Internet-based services from its headquarters in Hangzhou, China, startled the world with its record-breaking initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. The company’s business plan differs from other major Internet companies such as Amazon and eBay by its strategies that are tailored to the particular circu...Starting at €8.20