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You have been hired as consultants. |
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Your team has been asked to prepare a proposal and make a recommendation for setting up a branch location in COUNTRY "X". Your recommendation will be based on exploring the macroeconomic, business, and cultural issues in COUNTRY "X". |
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If the proposal is accepted, you and your team will move to country X for two years. |
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You are required to prepare a background report with a recommendation to either go ahead with the plan or reject it. |
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| Keeping the purpose of the report in mind, conduct an analysis on the following: | |||||||||||
| Political, historical, geographical background of the country Brief | |||||||||||
| Cultural Do's and Don'ts of conducting business in the country | |||||||||||
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Economic Indicators and the trends in the past 5 years
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| a) GDP | compare to the US | use charts | ||||||
| b) Inflation | compare to the US | use charts | ||||||
| c) Unemployment | compare to the US | use charts | ||||||
| d) Population growth | compare to the US | use charts | ||||||
| e) chief exports - trading partners | compare to the US | |||||
| f) chief imports - trading partners | compare to the US | |||||
| g) balance of trade | compare to the US | |||||
| h) strengths of the economy | ||||||
| i) major economic problems | ||||||
| j) sectors of the economy that are showing potential for growth | ||||||
| k) strength of the currency relative to the USD | ||||||||||
| l) human rights violations/ problems in the past 5 years; other human rights issues you should be concerned about | ||||||||||
| Presentation: | ||||||||||||||||
| You are required to use a Power Point presentation. | ||||||||||||||||
| The slides on the power point presentation should have bullet points and not complete sentences/paragraphs. | ||||||||||||||||
| Do not read from the slides. You should use the points on the slides to explain your research. We can all read the slides--hence, make sure your presenation adds value to the class time. | ||||||||||||||||
| Include a video which is current, and relevant. Maximum length of the video (s) - 5 minutes | ||||||||||||||||
| Each speaker should present for a minimum of 5 minutes (this does not include the video) | ||||||||||||||||