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Explain how profit works as a signal to the entrepreneur.
Shawn is creating a business that provides advertising on public restroom stall doors. He is funding the project from his personal savings of $5,000
What factors make the difference between a good business plan and an excellent one?
Explain why the executive summary is the most important section of any business plan.
Name three categories of investors/lenders that might have an interest in your business plan.
Call and visit an entrepreneur in your community to discuss business plans.
What five entry modes do firms consider as paths to use to enter international markets? What is the typical sequence in which firms use these entry modes?
Cisco Systems is in the business of building the infrastructure that allows the Internet to work
What are the three international corporate-level strategies? What are the advantages and disadvantages associated with these individual strategies?
What incentives influence firms to use international strategies?
What are the seven primary problems that affect a firm's efforts to successfully use an acquisition strategy
What are the strategic competitiveness outcomes firms can reach through international strategies, and particularly through an international diversification
It also exemplifies the difficulty of managing an international strategy and operations.
What is the definition of cooperative strategy, and why is this strategy important to firms competing in the twenty-first century competitive landscape?
What are the three corporate-level cooperative strategies? How do firms use each of these strategies for the purpose of creating a competitive advantage?
The academic literature on alliances has some interesting recent findings, one of which is the rationale
What is corporate governance? What factors account for the considerable amount of attention corporate governance receives from several parties
How is each of the three internal governance mechanisms- ownership concentration, boards of directors, and executive compensation-used to align the interests
What is the market for corporate control? What conditions generally cause this external governance mechanism to become active?
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., is one of the very few top executives at large banks or major financial services firms who was unscathed
What is organizational structure and what are organizational controls? What are the differences between strategic controls and financial controls?
What are the characteristics of the different functional structures used to implement the cost leadership, differentiation, integrated cost leadership
What organizational structures are used to implement the , global, and transnational international strategies?
Unilever, a European-headquartered (in both the Netherlands and the United Kingdom) consumer products company, is committed to using a sustainable environment
What is strategic leadership? Why are top-level managers considered to be important resources for an organization?