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Discuss the firm's activities outside the U.S. How does your firm use technology to strategic advantage?
Calculate Global Technology's weighted average cost of capital.
What are the impacts of innovation and technology on the cost of production? How does technology affect market structure and real-world competition?
Q1. Discuss the firm's activities outside the U.S. Q2. Identify which economic concepts, such as comparative advantage, apply to your firm.
The following price comparisons for identical products were observed in February 2004. What implications might follow from such price differentials?
What are the implications of situations like this for multinational firm activities? What impacts might you expect in the advanced industrialized economies?
Explain why HPP should internationalize. Use case examples of other companies wherever possible.
What steps can companies take in an attempt to prevent IPR infringement? Discuss the impact IPR infringement has on the consumer.
Outline the case for and against the FRS17 rule on pensions in the UK. Why might a similar rule under consideration by the IASB create still more problems?
Identify policies which might support the four outcomes identified in the Harvard model, namely commitment, competence, congruence and cost efficiencies?
What is meant by no brow consumers? What relevance does this approach have to traditional market segmentation approaches?
Choose any recent technological advance. Analyze the opportunities and threats which might follow from that advance.
Choose any recent legal controversy and evaluate the potential impact of that controversy on a firm you are familiar with.
Select one recent example of a micro political risk. Evaluate the likely impacts of this on a firm you are familiar with.
Consider some of the implications of this ‘baby-boomer' analysis for households, businesses and governments.
What are the changing lifestyles attitudes involved in the discussion of these two products?
Who do you think are the ‘Special K demographic'? Can you think of any instances of yoga being used to promote products?
Why can you identify some of the opportunities and threats which might result from this technological change?
In recent times the image of oil-based products has hardly been positive. Why has BP undertaken such global rebranding?
Identify some of the ‘opportunities' created by these new technologies. Identify some of the ‘threats' created by these new technologies.
Environmental sustainability sells This year's fashionable Christmas present is a tree-planting. How do environmentalists view the debate on carbon neutrality?
What argument might be used to support Greenpeace in its endorsement of a commercial enterprise?
What does this case study suggest about the relevance of EU legal decisions to UK businesses and individuals?
What types of political risk have been increased by the Yukon situation?
Freight companies pay for security threat. What types of costs are being imposed on the freight industry by such legislation?