Q1: Summarize Barnes & Noble’s business strategy and business model based in the case descriptions. How have these strategy and business model been evolved since the case was written? Barnes & Noble’s business model simply put was lower cost, and SCM. They sold merchandise at lower cost and they also decreased cost associated with procurement by obtaining better discounts from publishers than other book retailers […]

I am writing to you to express my views and opinions about the Amazonian rainforest and the way it’s being exploited. I am fully aware that you, as a government, are being threatened to reduce the amount of trees you cut down from other countries; this letter may initially appear to be like those others, but I understand both sides of the argument, although I […]

  Company: Amazon CEO: Jeff Bezos Year founded: 1994 Headquarter: Seattle,USA Number of Employees (2018): 613,3 Public or Private: Public Ticker Symbol: AMZN Market Cap (2018): $ 778.39 Billion Annual Revenue (2018): $ 220.96 Billion Profit | Net income (2018): $ 8.9 Billion Amazon is one of the best online retailers and it will continue its success and growth into the second half of 2016. One out […]

In a world where trade is increasingly becoming digitalized online, there are new and challenging strategies emerging. This essay aims to analyze and determine these strategies. Considering the example of eBay and Amazon, their business models and their multi-sided platforms, we can compare them to decide which strategies work in this market and how, in the future, they can keep a competitive edge as the […]

Barnes & Noble and Amazon. com had been in constant fight between each other since the explosion of online purchasing. Before the mid 1990’s online purchasing introduction, Barnes & Noble had big dominance in bookselling, as it was the largest bookstore in the world. With the entrance to the book market by Amazon. com, Barnes & Noble found a big competitor, as it represented a […]

Marketing strategy is necessary in every business. No matter how rich a certain business is, its resources are always restricted. Thus marketing strategy provides a certain business to allocate his resources properly in order for his business to be more productive. Marketing mix is also essential in the marketing field, and it is basically the reason why the marketing mix (4 P’s) is tackled under […]

Tired of working Monday through Friday? Sick of those eight-hour days? Maybe you love your job but it leaves you with little time for family or even for yourself. Whatever the reason, you may be in luck. There’s been much speculation about the effectiveness of a five-day, 40-hour workweek, and some companies are seeking other options. Even some of the world’s most successful people oppose […]

By utilizing the SWOT analysis above and Porter’s five forces (1985) from assignment 2 I can determine which of Porter’s generic strategies will be best suited to helping Amazon be a successful organisation.By placing amazon.com on Porter’s generic strategy model we can see that they adopt a ‘Cost leadership’ strategy in the main, however they do combine this with elements of ‘Differentiation’ strategy. Cost Leadership […]

A Tennessee family is suing Amazon after their $1 million house was destroyed in a fire caused by a “hoverboard” toy purchased on the site. According to , the Fox family of Nashville claims that Amazon knew the hoverboard in question was a dangerous product, but sold it anyway. In January, the hoverboard caught fire, destroying all of the family’s home and all their personal possessions. […]

Thatiana Salinas Deforestation is a longer-term change of the forest to several other sorts of ecosystems, for illustration agricultural or residential land. Sometimes, on the other manus, the name is used as an indicant to some state of affairss in which woods are concerned, for case by distinct crop, even if another forest accordingly regenerates in its topographic point. A assortment of human activities consequences […]