Please read and answer questions below. 250 minimum words
How is Alibaba’s business model different from Amazon’s business model? What are its pros and cons? What are some of the synergies of Alibaba operating multiple kinds of platforms?What are the challenges and opportunities for Alibaba to expand internationally?
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C-15 8 Case l 3 Alibaba Group: The Rise of a Platform Giant
As he wrote in his letter to customers, employees and shareholders,
I still have lots of dreams to pursue. Those who know me know that I do not like to sit idle. I plan on continuing my role as the founding partner in the Alibaba Partnership and contribute to the work of the partnership. I also want to return to
education, which excites me with so much blessingbecause this is what I love to do. The world is big and I am still young, so I want to try new things� because what if new dreams can be realized?!
'Yahoo finance, accessed September 25, 2018.
2 A. Cheng. “Alibaba vs. theWorld,” Institutional Investor, July 25, 2017.
3″The Rags-to-Riches Story of Alibaba Founder Jack Ma,” Busi
ness Insider, March 2, 2017. 4M. Zeng, “Alibaba and the Fu
ture of Business,” Harvard Business
Review, September-October 2018.
The one thing I can promise everyone is this· Alibaba was never about Jack Ma, but Jack M� will forever belong to Alibaba.
5SH Park & Z Zhao, “Alibaba Group: Fostering an E-Commerce Ecosystem.” (Ivey Publishing, case Wl6858.
6Data retrieved from Morningstar.com on September 27, 2018.
7Zeng, “Alibaba and the Future of Business.”
8Ibid. 9Ibid.
10J Erickson & S Wang, “At Alibaba, artificial intelligence is changing how people shop online,” Alizila (2017), June 5.
“Zeng, “Alibaba and the future of business.”
12Ibid. 13A. Lashinsky, “Jack Ma's
Strategy to Take Alibaba Global,” Intheblack, October 1, 2017.
