International Business Strategy IB 3680 (2014) Assignments (15 CAT – please see additional assignment pages 2-3) Assignment 1: Final length 1500 words (40% of module assessment) Please note this assessment is for the 12-CAT version of this module. Assignment 1 is completed in two halves. Each optional question comprises two distinct components‚ the first half completed in Phase 1 (750 words)‚ and the second in Phase 2 (total combined length 1500 words). Phase 1 Students are to complete
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The first strategy that Staples should implement is to joint venture with a number of small businesses. Staples already sells existing small business products such as office supplies‚ cleaning supplies‚ and breakroom supplies. Staples also has a small business network‚ where users can receive practical advice from industry experts and peers who share their stories‚ their successes‚ and their obstacles. However‚ a physical merger with small business entities would be a strategic approach that would
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Impact of new technology Deciphering Papyri * 1800 carbonized papyrus scrolls in Villa of Papyri * Problem – opening‚ unrolling and reading of fragile papyri * In recent years‚ renewed efforts have become evident to decipher the scrolls * Computer enhancement * Digital imaging used to extract images from scrolls and uncover text that is not visible to human eye. * Pattern image recognition and medical imaging techniques allow the future of deciphering scrolls without unrolling
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In H. Kent Baker and Leigh A. Riddick (eds.) Survey of International Finance‚ Oxford University Press‚ 2012 2 A Primer on Exchange Rate Behavior JAMES R. LOTHIAN Distinguished Professor of Finance‚ Fordham University M A R K P. T A Y L O R Dean‚ Warwick Business School; Professor of Finance‚ University of Warwick Introduction An exchange rate is the relative price of one country’s money in terms of another. What is being exchanged as money has varied over time with the particular
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Gateway theory is the hypothesis that exposure to entry level drugs such as tobacco‚ alcohol and marijuana reliably predicts a deeper and more severe drug involvement for the user in the future (O’Brien Lecture). For the sake of this discussion‚ I will refer to marijuana as the gateway drug. Gateway theory is comprised of three propositions: Sequencing‚ Association‚ and Causation. Sequencing refers to the idea that there is a relationship between two drugs‚ where the use of one is regularly initiated
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BSM 495 International Case Analysis Strategic and Organization Change at Black & Decker Known primarily for its power tools‚ Black & Decker is one of the world’s older multinational corporations. The company was founded in Baltimore‚ Maryland‚ in 1910‚ and by the end of the 1920’s had become a small multinational company with operations in Canada and Britain. Today the company has two well-known brands‚ Black & Decker consumer powers tools and its DeWalt brand of professional power tools
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ASPECTS OF FINANCIAL by William A. Sahlman‚ CONTRACTING IN Harvard Business School VENTURE CAPITAL INTRODUCTION During much of the 1960s and 1970s‚ academic discussions of corporate capital structure routinely began with the assumption that a firm’s financing decisions had no material effect on its intrinsic economic value. Setting aside tax consequences and the possibility of a costly bankruptcy‚ the value of the firm was assumed to depend solely on the level and risk of a firm’s operating
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RMIT International University Vietnam Bachelor of Commerce Program Assignment Cover Page | Subject Code: |BUSM3311 | | | | |Subject Name: |International Business |
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International Marketing AD655 International Business‚ Economics‚ and Cultures Introduction The last two decades‚ probably after World War II the economic growth have speeded up by multinational enterprise. In the 1990s foreign direct investment made by these firms grew as faster arte than both international trade and GDP (Cieslik & Ryan‚ 2011). The foreign direct investment already created lots of fortune for world economy; however‚ it is not luck to each international firm. Some of them
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School of Management MGMT3101 International Business Strategy Session 2‚ 2012 Case Study Assignment The Formation and Evolution of Sony Ericsson Joint Venture 5 October 2012 Contents Synopsis 3 1. Introduction 4 1.1. The Sony Ericsson Joint Venture 1.2. Motivations for Joint Venture 1.2.1. Technology Exchange 1.2.2. Risk Reductions 1.2.3. International Expansions 1.2.4. Financial Goals 2. Strategic Alliances 7 2.1. Alternative Strategies 2
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