Syllabus Case

Learning Team

Country Risk and Strategic Planning Analysis Paper Prepare a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper in which you conduct a country risk analysis for your selected global business venture. Analyze the following risks in your paper:

* Political, legal, and regulatory risks

* Exchange and repatriation of funds risks

* Competitive risk assessment

* Taxation and double taxation risks

* Market risks (four Ps)

* Distribution and supply chain risks

* Physical and environmental challenges to entering and operating in a target market

* Social and cultural risks

* Cyber or technology

Describe how you would manage these risks

Summarize your strategic planning process:

* Define and clarify mission and objectives

* SWOTT analysis of target country

* Make strategy selection

* Select and justify an appropriate mode of entry for your global product or service

* Control and evaluation

* Devise contingency plan

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines. 10

Week Four: Strategy Implementation: Finance and Marketing in Global Business

Details Due Points

Objectives 4.1 Analyze global financing and exchange rate mechanisms.

4.2 Identify multilateral and regional financial institutions that help foster global business.

4.3 Identify various methods of financing global operations.

4.4 Identify key foreign exchange risks and techniques to mitigate risk.

4.5 Conduct a global marketing analysis for a product or service.

Readings Read Ch. 9 of International Business.

Read Ch. 11 of International Business.

Read Ch. 16 of International Business.

Read Ch. 18 of International Business.

Read Ch. 20 of International Business.

Review this week's Electronic Reserve Readings.

Read the Week Four Read Me First.

Participation Participate in class discussion. 5

Individual

Case Study Select one of the following cases from the International Business Textbook:

* "Nike: The Sweatshop Debate" at the end of Part 2

* "Google in China" at the end of Chapter 4

* "Boeing versus Airbus: Two Decades of Trade Disputes" at the end of Part 3 (Video is not required to complete this case.)

* "The Russian Ruble Crisis and Its Aftermath" at the end of Part 4

* "Molex"