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Set out the arguments in favor of and against globalization
Recognize the issues in the international protection of intellectual property?
4 When is technology transfer complete?
7 How can research performance be measured?
8 How can you protect intellectual property rights (IPR) in a global firm?
Understand the nature of the risks generated by currency fluctuations
Explain the hedging techniques available to manage currency fluctuations
Compute the cash flow of an international project and assess its economic return using either the adjusted present value (APV) method or the cost of capital adjustment (CCA) method
Explain the recent development towards ‘metanational’ management of global knowledge creation
Understand knowledge management
5 What are the three major functions of global logistics?
7 What is the ‘hostage’ problem in BOT contracts?
8 Based on your personal experience on surfing on the Web, give concrete examples of the reach and richness capabilities of the internet.
9 Go to the Dell website in the country where you are located, and try to configure your laptop with a keyboard that is not used in your country ( for instance, a French keyboard if you are in the USA).What do you observe? What conclusion do you draw about the internet as a global tool?
12 What do you think are the benefits and constraints of global e-learning platforms (education programs offered through the internet)?
13 EBay is a virtual auctioneer. How do you think it can globalize its activities?
Understand the logic and the limitations of the international product life cycle
Appreciate the different designs of global R&D networks
Recognize the different management issues in the global management of R&D
Discuss the issues of the international transfer of technology
Recognize the benefits of crosslisting
Appreciate the benefits and pitfalls of raising debt internationally
Describe the mechanics behind and some key tips for using the various instruments of trade finance for global companies?
Appreciate the trade-offs in establishing a policy of reliance on expatriate global managers versus local ones
Understand the causes of success and failure of an expatriate policy
Contribute to the definition of an expatriate policy
Contribute to plans for developing local management
Participate in the design of global training programs?
5 What are the benefits of mentoring an expatriate?
14 Why do you think the Japanese stock market, as shown in Table 13.3, has not correlated to other markets?
13 When a global company originates from a country which may not have a sound financial system(e.g. Argentina), should its overseas offices/subsidiaries hedge their local currencies against the currency of the head office or hedge it against a foreign currency (e.g. US$), which is less prone to be
2 On 14 January 2002 it was announced that the US carrier JetBlue would buy 10 Airbus 320 aircraft for US$500 million. The planes were to be delivered over four years (two in 2002, two in 2003, three in 2004 and 2005). Airbus incurs 70% of its cost in euros. What can Airbus Industries do to cover
6 How can a company deal with strategic exposure?
7 What is a letter of credit?
8 Why are the correlation coefficients between stock market returns so high (Table 13.3)?
11 Can companies take advantage of favorable exchange or tax rates to make purchases in different currencies/countries?
8 What will be the key content of a management program designed to train managers to become‘country managers’?
Formulate a global alliance?
1 The text distinguishes between alliances and coalitions, co-specializations and learning. In which category would you place the One World Alliance, in which American Airlines, British Airways and Cathay Pacific participate? What do such partners look for?
2 What are the sources of value creation in an alliance?
4 What is an extractive agenda in an alliance?
Identify the critical elements of value creation in an acquisition plan and implement integration
Understand the various phases of integration
Explain the different modes of integration?
3 What determines the bargaining range of a negotiation?
2 Do you think that GM has benefited from those?
1 Why in your opinion were some of those partnerships terminated?
Analyze the various fits among parties involved?
Structure a negotiation for reaching an agreement?
Anticipate potential issues in the management of the alliances and understand how to set up the proper mechanisms to solve them?
Understand the various phases of post-merger integration and explain the different modes of integration?
The invested capital is $2,000,000 and the shareholding is divided 60% for A and 40% for B
A is to receive 7% royalties on sales of AB for technology transfer
A is to be compensated $50,000/year for detachment of personnel costed at $20,000
A also sells its own products via the joint venture, on which it makes 12% net profit
B is to lease out its land and factory for a net contribution of $30,000/year
B uses its distribution network for selling A and AB products. For this it takes a 10% commission
Thanks to technology transfer B is able to improve its productivity and to reduce the costs of its own products by 10%?
6 What are the most frequent sources of failure in M&As?
Understand the various factors contributing to the location decision
Explain the different roles of international factories and service centers, and their evolution
Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of centralized versus decentralized purchasing
Understand the role played by the internet in the management of global operations
Discuss the functions of a global logistics system
Set out the various phases in international infrastructure projects and their management design?
1 Using these three examples, what is your assessment of the role of the internet in globalization?
2 Are the global expansion experiences of these three platforms similar to any other global expansion you know of?
1 Compare Singapore and Malaysia as a possible location for: (i) a PC assembly plant, (ii) a semiconductor wafer factory, (iii) a regional maintenance center, (iv) a customer training center for international customers, (v) a chemical processing plant.
7 Why can global pricing lead to sub-optimization?
6 What are the benefits of using a single advertising agency?
Understand customer behavior; its divergence and convergence across countries
Understand differences in segmentation
Design a product policy toward standardization or adaptation
Decide whether the company will push global or local brands
Decide whether the company should have a global pricing policy
Design an appropriate global distribution system
Develop a global account and global solution selling policy?
1 What are the benefits of global standardization?
2 Can you identify 10 ‘global’ products?
3 In Table 10.2, (p. 271), most of the top global brands are from the United States. Why do you think this is?
4 Why did Unilever announce that it was reducing its brands from 1600 to 400? What were the risks of doing so?
Identify the benefits and issues for each organizational type
Identify some features of new models of global management?
Participate in a meaningful way in designing an appropriate organization in the context of a particular global firm
Understand the characteristics of the transnational model and be able to introduce its features in a particular firm?
1 What were the major hurdles to ACER becoming a global company? How did it overcome them?
2 During its initial phase of global development, ACER relied on OEM, alliances and acquisitions, and had a decentralized management. Why? What are the pros and cons of such a strategy?
3 What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of the client–server principle for global competitiveness?
4 What were the reasons behind ACER’s strategic and organizational changes in 2001? Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of such changes.
3 What are the characteristics of the transnational model?
Appreciate the major trends in the global economy
Contribute to the building of future scenarios
Identify some features of new models of global management?
Contribute to the building of future scenarios
Appreciate the major trends in the global economy
Set out the arguments in favor of and against globalization
3 What are the characteristics of the transnational model?
4 What were the reasons behind ACER’s strategic and organizational changes in 2001? Analyze the advantages and disadvantages of such changes.
3 What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of the client–server principle for global competitiveness?
2 During its initial phase of global development, ACER relied on OEM, alliances and acquisitions, and had a decentralized management. Why? What are the pros and cons of such a strategy?

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