Prosperity vs. Impoverishment

A couple of years ago, when one of the large international financing organizations was meeting in Seattle and also when they had their meeting in Washington, D.C., protestors tried to disrupt the meetings and to bring attention to what they called the sin of globalization. I wish I would have remembered where it was, but in one of these situations they were protesting the World Bank's financing of a large dam. On one hand, the dam would bring water reserves for agriculture to a chronically drought-prone area, upon completion would provide many people with electricity for the first time, and would raise the standard of living for hundreds of thousands of people in the area. On the o... click for more

Global Corporation

Let me briefly describe to you a situation that is ongoing in Central America, particularly in Honduras, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. It has to do with a large American Fortune 500 company called H.B. Fuller. They usually make it into the 100 best companies to work for in America, and are spread out all over the world. Fuller makes adhesives, coatings, mastics, glues … all kinds of sticky stuff. Many years ago, Fuller wanted to get into Latin America. They first went to Central America and purchased a well-known and highly respected paint company called Tintas Kativo. Kativo had all the same types of equipment needed to make different types of glue, there was a market there for Fuller... click for more

Re-enact a historical negotiation scenario through role play and imagined dialogue and analyzes the negotiation scenario.

Part 1 (Group): As a group, choose a well-documented negotiation scenario from history. The scenario could be a business acquisition, a labor/management dispute, or a political disagreement-any situation that involved a negotiation process between two (or more) parties, whether or not the situation was settled successfully. After your group has decided on the scenario, each student should choose a role from among the various parties in the negotiation. For example, if your scenario is a U.S. baseball strike, different students would play the roles of the baseball players' union, the team owners, the baseball commissioner, the courts, etc. If there aren't enough roles for each student, then ... click for more

International Business Questions

1) What ethics issues may arise in conducting business globally? 2) Why is the failure rate among U.S. expatriate business assignments so high? What can be done to improve this rate? 3) How do companies safeguard intellectual property globally?

Need some help writing a piece on international business

This is the second part of the paper. Last week the group chose to do business in Ecuador importing Blue Jeans. This is a very poor country but my part of the paper are as follows : 1) Market Price, Product, Promotion, Place or distribution (4 Ps) risks 2) Distribution/supply chain risks 3) Social/cultural risks 4) Cyber/technology 5) Physical environment I need a good thurough piece discussing all of these points and how you would go about starting this business. This needs to be in layman's terms and around 400 to 500 words. Thanks in advance for your help. One thought I had was to import just the materials in order to make the goods there and provide jo... click for more