Jack Ma

choice. Jack Ma is no doubt an extremely successful entrepreneur in the world of the entrepreneur and his journey has never been a bed of roses. As the Chinese saying goes “one minute on stage required whole ten years of practice down the stage” which in other words mean that the public may have seen the Brightside of the successful entrepreneurs, however, they will never know what the entrepreneurs have gone through in the past in order to get to this point of their life. Jack Ma’s personality

INTRODUCTION The objective of this paper is to apply the knowledge learned in class by studying the leadership characteristics and styles of a leader and what contributed to his/her successes and failures. In my case I have chosen Jack Ma, founder and executive chairman of Alibaba Group. He has become one of the most influential businessmen and is a global example of leadership. However, his road to success was not easy. He had to overcome failure in several occasions and work hard to build his

Jack Ma (Ma, Yun), “Alibaba” of China’s e-commerce business As a young Charismatic leader, how will Jack Ma overcome challenges of running a big business and get success when going forward? Alibaba Group, even only with 12years history, is one of the biggest e-commerce platforms for small businesses in the world. Its business includes: Alibaba.com, which is for small firms to find customers and suppliers without going through middlemen, has 57million users, nearly in every country. Another

1. What did Jack Ma do that was so different from other company leaders? In what ways is he a revolutionary? In my opinion, the different thing that Jack Ma have done difference from other company leader is Jack Ma is a risk taken person. It is because Jack Ma is dared to challenge status quo that have supported by many years of conventional wisdom about business and competition in the digital age. Jack Ma also dared to decision to open on the New York Stock Exchange although he failed to reach a

year 1998 to year 2001, This is the period that Alibaba starts to recruit suppliers by providing them information and platform for entering the global market. Free online information and services were provided to the suppliers during that period. Jack Ma even hired experts from foreign country to assist the company to go into globalization. (Yazdanifard, 2014) The second phase is in year 2002 where Alibaba starts to adopt Trustpass which strengthen the security of their website against frauds. (Yazdanifard

Company Establishment Alibaba.com In early 1999, Jack Ma and 17 other founders set up Alibaba. Alibaba first commercial venture is Alibaba.com, an online platform that linked SME of Chinese and international manufacturers and buyers. The main reason of Alibaba success development was improving customers’ satisfaction by listening closely to them. The proof is Alibaba had attracted 32m members in 2007, with operating profits and revenues of $105.3m and of $289.5m respectively. Customers satisfaction

Company Overview Alibaba Group Holding Limited (Alibaba), Chinese e-commerce giant, was founded in 1999 by Ma Yun (Jack Ma). It offers a platform for both domestic and international traders to conduct business. It aims to create a convenient trading platform for small and medium sized enterprises all around the world. Alibaba was the first company entered into the Chinese e-commerce industry, so it brought an Internet revolution to China. During these years, its wonderful ability of expanding make

“Alibaba: Competing in China and Beyond.” Alibaba under the leadership of Jack Ma, its founder has transformed into one of the most successful e-commerce companies in China. In the 2000s Alibaba had emerged as the largest e-commerce company in China. The company tailored its strategies to meet the needs of the customers and made a mark because of its understanding of the Chinese language and culture. However, some

ALIBABA Group Holding Brief History. Alibaba cooperation is a global wide Internet company founded by Jack Ma, Chinese name Ma Yun.Although Alibaba was founded in 1999, the story of how the company came to be actually dates back to 1995, when Jack Ma was on a trip to the U.S. and first became exposed to the Internet. As the story goes, he tried searching for the word "beer" on Yahoo but the search results did not turn up a single Chinese option. In fact, he could hardly find anything

How does Alibaba group create corporate advantage? (Why are the businesses under one roof?) Is this corporate advantage sustainable? Is the current degree of competition amongst the business units appropriate? Do you think Jack Ma should encourage more cooperation? If so how? The Alibaba group has thrived in the Chinese e-commerce sector from its inception in 1998. They currently account for over 70% of online shopping in China and delivered annual revenues of $636 million in the 12month period