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“Today is 11.11 Shopping Festival in China and more than $1 billion worth of goods were sold within the first 20 minutes”. I was absolutely shocked by this news that wrote in a blog called “Online Shopping Binge Gets Off to a Strong Start” that posted early today. After Alibaba’s recent IPO, this year’s volume of transaction has drawn worldwide attention. In order to expand its business to a global scope, for the first time this year, AliExpress participated in transactions, offering products to customers overseas. In addition, the firm…read more

I’m really impressed by Tianye Guo’s blog about increasing international student’s tuition. I appreciated that she relates a current hotly debated topic around us with business concepts that we learnt in class and describes cash flow in a company as oxygen presented in the atmosphere, which precisely pointed out its importance and a main reason for the likely increasing of international tuition. My perspective on this issue are as follows. International tuition for high-ranked university in Canada has been increasing since years ago. Compared with McGill University and University of…read more

If the United Nations was fully funded why should we need the Arc or social enterprise? To answer this question, we should figure out what is social enterprise or Arc and what do they exactly do. They are all organizations equipped with professional commercial knowledge that try to fundamentally improve society. What they offer are not just money but something more important, knowledge and skills, which could be sustainedly beneficial. For example, Arc initiative run by Suader Business School is a program that brings professional commerce students and African entrepreneurs…read more

Zappos.com is one of the world’s largest shoe stores. What makes it special is its high-level customer services and its organizational culture. However, in Tianyang Ma’s blog, he pointed out that the current company culture does not fit the company at all. His supportive reasons are the less needs and high cost. However, I totally do not agree with him. Zappos’ outstanding customer service is an important value proposition that shouldn’t be abandoned. To maintain this advantage, money should be invested in employee training and organizational culture construction. Customer services…read more

Analysis done at eBay shows that its ads at several search engines are useless and its marketing team has wasted millions of dollars over the years. This is arising out of a culture of advocacy. In the preceding years, business decisions were much driven by senior managers’ advocacy and ideas but relied less on objective data. Thus, business always made wrong decisions and experienced risks and instability which resulted in enormous loss and even irreversible results. The eBay example indeed verified this. Marketing people and managers believe that the ads…read more

Due to the complex historical background, the conflict between aboriginal people and colonist has been exist since Canada was created and has become more and more fierce. In result, many business activities were halted in order to protect the aboriginal people’s right and appease conflict. The federal government has been in charge of aboriginal affairs for about 150 years and has issued many policies to regulate first nations. One of them is called The Indian Act. It was enacted to control most aspects of aboriginal life. It was once aimed…read more

the stock of SM.entertainment as of Sept.30th The announcement of Jessica has been forced out Girl’s Generation has become a shock to the Korea entertainment industry even the worldwide entertainment industry. The news became the top one on NAVER’ search list and the stock of SM. Entertainment(the artist agency of Girl’s Generation) plummeted about 4% just after the unofficial post on Weibo that written by Jessica came out. How could one person possess such huge influence? As a fan of Girl’s Generation, I would like to say that it’s undeniable…read more

Thanks to the development of technology, online matchmaking service has become possible. A dating site called Cupid run well in the last few years but is now facing the problem of loss of customer. Cupid has an attractive and straightforward name. Also, being one of the earliest companies that entering the matchmaking industry, Cupid has won numerous customers. However, what made Cupid special but also withered is that it’s not a free dating website. Although you could register and set up your profile freely, you need to pay the subscription…read more

As a traditional entertainment program, Pachinko has earned billions of revenues last year although its player has been declining for years. Realizing that about one in seven Japanese adults play it regularly and the country’s 1200 parlous keeps players behind a thick wall of noise, smoke and gambler’s tension, the government plan to allow the building of big, legal casinos. The casino-legalization law may pass the pachinko business to large and well-operated companies. And the improvement of the environment in casinos will attract more players, even the video-game generation. With…read more

BlackBerry opened a tech centre in Argentina. It previously opened one in Buenos Aires. Those centre aim to foster the most talented software developers in order to invite them to innovate and create initiatives for mobile computing. What has been written above is the main idea of the news that posted on The Economist in 2013. Besides the investments in education, BlackBerry also exerts efforts in other fields to show its positive attitude towards social responsibilities.It claimed that the operation of their business will be in accordance with the laws…read more