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- March 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Background Note
Making Sense of the Internet Business Landscape
Discusses the shift from the industrial to the information economy from a technological, business, and societal perspective. Compares the changes we are experiencing today with the changes experienced during the shift from the agrarian to the industrial age at the turn... View Details
- February 2001 (Revised March 2001)
- Teaching Note
Building E-Businesses Instructor's Guide TN
- December 2000 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Ventro: Builder of B2B Businesses (Condensed)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a condensed analysis of Ventro (formerly known as Chemdex), which builds and operates multiple B2B marketplace companies. Part of the Building-E-Business Online series. View Details
- December 2000
- Background Note
Intellectual Asset Valuation
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Gavin Clarkson
Discusses the shortcomings of the current "rules of thumb" for intellectual asset valuation in the context of intellectual property licensing transactions. As an alternative to the present scheme, this note proposes quantitative methods for such valuations in order to... View Details
- November 2000 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Ventro: Builder of B2B Businesses
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a thorough analysis of Ventro (formerly known as Chemdex), which builds and operates multiple B2B marketplace companies. Examines Ventro's business model and strategy as well as the company's operating, technical, and management expertise. Part of the... View Details
- November 2000
- Supplement
Intellectual Asset Valuation Exercise and Exhibits
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Gavin Clarkson
- October 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
eLance.com: Building a Professional Services Marketplace
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Kristin Kohler
Launched as an eBay for services, eLance promises to leverage the capabilities of the Internet to not only change the way services are bought and sold, but change the fundamental dynamics of the global economy. Building on theories posited in the HBR article by Tim... View Details
- September 2000 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Amazon.com: 1994-2000
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details
- September 2000
- Case
Intellectual Property Exchange (A), The
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Gavin Clarkson
As the marketplace for intellectual assets explodes, the mechanisms for liquidity and exchange have not kept pace. Bryan Benoit, partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), believes that he has a solution. Working initially with a shoestring development budget, he has... View Details
- September 2000
- Case
Intellectual Property Exchange (B), The
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Gavin Clarkson
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- August 2000 (Revised December 2001)
- Background Note
Emerging Networked Business Models: Lessons from the Field
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Provides an overview of the networked models that are revolutionizing market industries and the organizations that compete and do business within them. Teaching Purpose: To introduce students and executives to emerging networked models and to provide a foundation for... View Details
- June 2000 (Revised February 2003)
- Teaching Note
Amazon.com Series TN
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Teaching Note for (9-800-330), (9-800-441), (9-801-194), and (9-801-392). View Details
- June 2000 (Revised September 2004)
- Exercise
Amazon.com Valuation Exercise
Designed to accompany Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of a Digital Business Infrastructure. View Details
Keywords: Valuation
- June 2000 (Revised September 2000)
- Case
Amazon.com: Exploiting the Value of Digital Business Infrastructure
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a thorough analysis of Amazon.com and the company's value proposition, in terms of its business concept, digital business capabilities, and community and shareholder value. Examines the company's complex set of business models and web of business relationships,... View Details
- June 2000
- Teaching Note
Crafting E-Business Models: Facilitation Guide
- February 2000 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
QuickenInsurance: The Race to Click and Close (A)
ES Technologies started in 1976 as a storefront in Tempe, Arizona selling personal computer kits to hobbyists. Twenty years later, revenues exceeded $3.5 billion, and the business had evolved from a computer store to a master reseller and full-line integrator of... View Details
- February 2000
- Case
Bluemercury: Leveraging the Click and Mortar Business Model
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Karen Barone
Keywords: Business Model
- February 2000 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
InSite Marketing Technology (B)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Genevieve J.S. Feraud
Provides students an example of partnerships/acquisitions that allow delivery of packaged solutions to customers in the electronic commerce space. View Details