Assignment 1: Discussion Questions—International Business Decision Making

The various factors impacting international business may be brought together into a process for evaluating international business opportunities. Choosing the right mode of entry is the next step.

Research evaluation of business opportunities and modes of entry using your textbook,  University online library resources, and the Internet. Respond to the following:

• Explain how a business can assess international business opportunities giving examples. Do you think the size of the company matters in assessing an international business opportunity? Give reasons for your answer.
• In your opinion, what would be the single most effective way for a potential international business to gain entry into an international market? What are the apparent risks of the mode of entry you recommend? For at least one other mode of entry, explain why it would be less effective compared to the one you chose.

Write your response in 400 words or less. Apply current APA standards for writing style to your work. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

By Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Assignment 2: Presentation—Starting an International Business

Business decisions are not made on a hunch or some vague idea of a good place to do business. Professionals assess business opportunities and modes of entry to choose the best alternative.

Research the topic using your textbook,  University online library resources, and the Internet. Based on your research, develop a presentation. Your role is of an educational specialist in international business and your audience is a group of middle managers.

Discuss the following in your presentation:

• Steps to analyzing international business opportunities with specifics of what is involved in each step
• Alternative methods for gaining entry into an international business opportunity or market

Submit your work in a 10-slide PowerPoint presentation. Use the speaker notes area to write the information supporting the slides. Apply current APA standards for writing style to your work. All written assignments and responses should follow APA rules for attributing sources.

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Chapter 2 assignment : Essay questions with citing.

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Chapter 5 assignment: Essay questions  1,2,3,4 page 132-133

1. The Senate recently released a report on wrongdoing at JP Morgan Chase. It found that bank executives lied to investors and the public. Also, traders, with the knowledge of top management, changed risk limits to facilitate more trading and then violated even these higher limits. Executives revalued the bank’s investment portfolio to reduce apparent losses. JP Morgan’s internal investigation failed to find this wrongdoing. Into what ethics traps did these JP Morgan employees fall? What options did the executives and traders have for dealing with this wrongdoing?

2. Located in Bath, Maine, Bath Iron Works builds high tech warships for the Navy. Winning Navy contracts is crucial to the company’s success—it means jobs for the community and profits for the shareholders. Navy officials held a meeting at Bath’s offices with its executives and those of a competitor to review the specs for an upcoming bid. Both companies desperately wanted to win the contract. After the meeting, a Bath worker realized that one of the Navy officials had left a folder on a chair labeled: “Business Sensitive.” It contained information about the competitors’ bid that would be a huge advantage to Bath. William Haggett, the Bath CEO, was notified about the file just as he was walking out the door to give a luncheon speech. What should he do? What pitfalls did he face? What result if he considered Mill, Kant, or the Front Page test?

3. A group of medical schools conducted a study on very premature babies—those born between 24 and 27 weeks of gestation (instead of the normal 40 weeks). These children face a high risk of blindness and death. The goal of the study was to determine which level of oxygen in a baby’s incubator produced the best results. Before enrolling families in the study, the investigators did not tell them that being in the study could increase their child’s risk of blindness or death. The study made some important discoveries: the level at which too much oxygen increased the risk of blindness and level at which too little increased the risk of death. What would Mill and Kant say about this decision not to tell the families?

4. Because Raina processes payroll at her company, she knows how much everyone earns, including the top executives. This information could make for some good gossip, but she has kept it all completely secret. She just found out, however, that her boss knew that it is against company policy for her to do payroll for C-level employees. Yesterday, the CEO went to her boss to confirm that he, the boss, was personally doing the processing for top management. Her boss lied to the CEO and said that he was. Then he begged Raina not to tell the truth if the CEO checked with her. Raina just got a message that the CEO wants to see her. What does she say if he asks about the payroll?

1. YOU BE THE JUDGE WRITING PROBLEM Scott Fane was a CPA licensed to practice in New Jersey and Florida. He built his New Jersey practice by making unsolicited phone calls to executives. When he moved to Florida, the Board of Accountancy there prohibited him (and all CPAs) from personally soliciting new business. Fane sued. Does the First Amendment force Florida to forgo foreclosing Fane’s phoning? Argument for Fane: The Florida regulation violates the First Amendment, which protects commercial speech. Fane was not saying anything false or misleading, but was just trying to secure business. This is an unreasonable regulation, designed to keep newcomers out of the marketplace and maintain steady business and high prices for established CPAs. Argument for the Florida Board of Accountancy: Commercial speech deserves—and gets—a lower level of protection than other speech. This regulation is a reasonable method of ensuring that the level of CPA work in our state remains high. CPAs who personally solicit clients are obviously in need of business. They are more likely to bend legal and ethical rules to obtain clients and keep them happy, and will lower the standards throughout the state.

2. President George H. W. Bush insisted that he had the power to send American troops into combat in the Middle East, without congressional assent. Yet before authorizing force in Operation Desert Storm, he secured congressional authorization. President Bill Clinton stated that he was prepared to invade Haiti without a congressional vote. Yet he bargained hard to avoid an invasion, and ultimately American troops entered without the use of force. Why the seeming doubletalk by both Presidents?

3. In the landmark 1965 case of Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court examined a Connecticut statute that made it a crime for any person to use contraception. The majority declared the law an unconstitutional violation of the right of privacy. Justice Black dissented, saying, “I do not to any extent whatever base my view that this Connecticut law is constitutional on a belief that the law is wise or that its policy is a good one. [It] is every bit as offensive to me as it is to the majority. [There is no criticism by the majority of this law] to which I cannot subscribe—except their conclusion that the evil qualities they see in the law make it unconstitutional.” What legal doctrines are involved here? Why did Justice Black distinguish between his personal views on the statute and the power of the Court to overturn it?

4. Gilleo opposed American participation in the war in the Persian Gulf. She displayed a large sign on her front lawn that read, “Say No to War in the Persian Gulf, Call Congress Now.” The city of Ladue prohibited signs on front lawns and Gilleo sued. The city claimed that it was regulating “time, place, and manner.” Explain that statement, and decide who should win.

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4. True or False: HTML and CSS are front end technology. *This question is required.

· True

· False

5. What is the difference between HTML and CSS? *This question is required.

· CSS is a markup language unlike HTML

· HTML is a backend technology and CSS is a front end technology

· HTML focuses on a web page’s structure and CSS focuses on its presentation

· As of HTML5 there is no difference

6. In a proper webpage, which tag holds all of a webpages visible HTML? *This question is required.

· html

· head

· body

· link

· script

· doctype

7. Alphabet for your reference: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z If the code for CAT is ECV  what is the code for DOG? *This question is required.

· FQI

· BIT

· FDW

· GRJ

8. The sum of two consecutive numbers is 37.  What are they? *This question is required.

· 18, 19

· 7, 30

· 20, 17

· 36, 1

9. It’s 3 PM. How many degrees are in the angle between the hour and minute hand? *This question is required.

· 90

· 60

· 15

· 25

· 180

10. What does the following code alert? var person = {   name: “Mike”,   age: 25,   favoriteFood: “pizza” }; alert(“My best friend’s name is” + person.name + “,he’s ” + person.age + ” years old and his favorite food is ” + person.favoriteFood);   *This question is required.

· My best friend’s name isMike,he’s 25 years old and his favorite food is pizza

· My best friend’s name is Mike, he’s 25 years old and his favorite food is pizza.

· My best friend’s name isMike ,he’s 25 years old and his favorite food is pizza.

· My friend’s best name isMike,he’s 25 years old and his favorite food is pizza.

11. What language(s) MUST be used to display a bare-minimum web page?

· HTML, SQL, Node.js

· HTML

· JavaScript & PHP

· SQL

12. What is the best image format for our website if we needed our image to have a transparent background?

· JPEG

· JPG

· GIF

· PNG

· PSD

· TIFF

· None of these

13. Which one of these is the most different?

· JavaScript

· PHP

· Ruby

· Python

· MySQL

14. Which of these statements is true?

· Agile is a programming language

· SQL is a database language

· HTML stands for “Hypertext Markup Link”

· Java is short for JavaScript

15. It’s 2 PM. How many degrees are in the angle between the hour and minute hand?

· 90

· 60

· 15

· 25

· 180

16. The following HTML and CSS is COMPLETELY CORRECT. This code makes up a web page. When the following code renders onto the screen, which paragraph appears bolded?

· The Wonder Years is an American television comedy-drama created by Neal Marlens and Carol Black.

· It ran on ABC from 1988 until 1993.

· The pilot aired on January 31, 1988, following ABC’s coverage of Super Bowl XXII.

· All of the above

17. Which operation could we perform in order to find the number of milliseconds in a year?

· 60 * 60 * 24 * 7 * 365

· 1000 * 60 * 60 * 24 * 365

· 24 * 60 * 100 * 7 * 52

· 1000 * 60 * 24 * 7 * 52

· None of these

18. You are facing North. Turn 90 degrees left. Turn 180 degrees right. Reverse direction. Turn 45 degrees left. Reverse direction. In which direction are you now facing?

· North

· West

· South West

· South East

· North West

· North East

19. Albert thought of a number, added 5, multiplied the result by 2, took away 6 and then divided by 2 to give an answer of 8.

· 5

· 6

· 3

· 4

20. If you’re driving one and a half miles per minute, slow down by 15 miles per hour, and then reduce your speed by one third, how fast are you going now?

· 90 miles per hour

· 60 miles per hour

· 50 miles per hour

· 75 miles per hour

· 45 miles per hour

21. What is the value of 🍎? 🍎 + 🍕 = 10; 🍋 + 🍋 = 6; 🍋 + 🍕 = 5;

· 6

· 9

· 7

· 8

· 1

22. Which CSS attribute would change an element’s font color to blue?

· font-color: blue;

· background: blue;

· color: blue;

· background-color: blue;

· font: blue;

23. What is the largest number that can be produced by multiplying any three individual numbers from the following list. [-2, 1, 3, -8, 5, 9, -9, 4, 7, -7, 8]

· 648

· 504

· 732

· 888