eCommerce

Smart Online Ratings for Electronic Gadgets

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Term: 

2012 (Dec)

Students: 

Deepanshu Saini – 61310308 Rachna Lalwani – 61310845 Saurabh Thaman – 61310113 Vikramadith Raman – 61310387 Jeevan Murthy – 61310542 Karthik Venkiteswaran

University: 

ISB

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Aggregator websites of Electronic gadgets listings decide if they want to pick a particular listing from an e-commerce website and display on their own website. Selection of the right items to list is essential to customers selecting products for purchase, therefore leading to higher revenues.

Price Arbitrage for Mom & Pop Store Product Traders

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Term: 

2012 (Dec)

Students: 

Abhinav Verma, Bhaskar Vedula, Raphael Schilling, Rhianna Prabhu, Vivek Aranha

University: 

ISB

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Currently Mom & Pop Stores do not have much insight into the price changes of electronic
products. This information is useful for the stores to plan for inventory purchases prior to the
price increases and generate profits on the products due to the increased price. Currently, this
decision to buy is based on intuition and there is no real science or reasoning behind it.

Prosper.com: Improving Lending Through Modeling Defaults

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Term: 

2010

Students: 

Lindsey Cohen, Ross Dodd, Wells Person, Amy Rzepka

University: 

UMD

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Prosper.com is an online peer-to-peer lending system for borrowing money and investing in loans
through an open and transparent auction model. Prosper.com borrowers create credit profiles
containing information lenders can review before determining whether to invest or not in a
borrower. Even with this information, one challenge Prosper.com lenders face is being able to

Predictive Model for Prosper.com

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Project Details

Term: 

2010

Students: 

Natasha Sood, Nikhil Goenka, Salil Das, Sourabh Kukreja, Vikas Shah

University: 

ISB

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Prosper is the world's largest peer-to-peer lending marketplace, with more than 1,020,000 members and over $213 million in funded loans. Borrowers’ list loan requests between $2,000 and $25,000 and individual lenders invest as little as $25 in each loan listing they select. It rates all the borrowers’ and using those ratings lenders decide if and how much they want to invest.

Explaining conversion rate factors in eBay auctions

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Term: 

2008

Students: 

A. Zachary Girod, Christen Hartnett, Brad Kolarov, Inbal Yahav

University: 

UMD

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The goal of this project was to build a model for determining factors affecting the transaction of an eBay auction for golf balls. The model is aimed at helping sellers on eBay of how to increase their conversion rate (percentage of transacted auctions)

Determining drivers of customer loyalty for eCommerce air travel booking

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Term: 

2006

Students: 

Andrew Lipscomb, Eric May, Gregory Dell’Orto, Meagan Boyce, Michael Melcer

University: 

UMD

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Vliegtarieven.nl is an online booking agency for air tickets. The project goal is to determine the factors affecting online customers' intention of returning to Vliegtarieven.nl to purchase airline tickets, based on a large survey of their customers (we thank Prof Otto Koppius from RSM Erasmus for sharing the data and problem)

Characterizing Identity Theft Victims

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Project Details

Term: 

2007

Students: 

Mehmet Hondur, Benjama Kounthongkul, Patcharaporn Makarasara, Brenda Martineau, Sophie Shuklin

University: 

UMD

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The project goal is to understand the characteristics related to being a victim of identity theft, using data from the Federal Trade Commission's Identity Theft Survey Report

What drives mobile users to become active users of DubMeNow?

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Project Details

Term: 

2009

Students: 

Ji Hee Han, Nicholas Rapagnani, Shahryar Rizvi, Jerry Wang

University: 

UMD

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The success of a company like DubMeNow, that deals in digital markets, hinges entirely on the value of their network. Not just in the size of it, but also the quality

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