Lesson 1 Activity 1: Market Entry Strategy Project: In your small group select a country that interests you. You will need to do library research and internet searches for this activity.  For the country your team is researching, integrate your answers to the following questions into your completed MESP report.  Your report should be between 3 -5 pages, double spaced.  Each member of the team should contribute to the report so that it sounds like one voice, not four disjointed reports. Is the nation the home base of any large multinational companies? How is globalization influencing the country’s jobs and wages, its income inequality, and its culture, sovereignty, and physical environment? How does the country rank in terms of its degree of globalization? What benefits can the country offer to businesses seeking a new market or production base?Activity 2:  Practicing International Management Case Study 1. Work with a small group to read through the case. Then discuss the two questions. 2. Share what you discussed with the class in an instructor led discussion. Activity 3: Where in the World Is It? Understanding where countries are located in the world is essential to developing an understanding and appreciation for International Business. Location, climate, proximity to transportation, and other issues have a major impact on what business can occur and what resources are available for business. Work with your group to complete the Map exercise in the appendix of Chapter 1.  Study the maps in the text.  You will need this information as you move on to study the effect of culture, economics and politics.

Follow the format below while creating your portfolio. You should write in a professional manner except in the reflective piece of the portfolio. Otherwise, all items should be parsed as if they were going to be reviewed by an executive at a financial institution. Introduction: , describe what your original strategy was in choosing your stocks and the strengths that you saw when you did so. Also highlight any areas you avoided. Please keep in mind that you will be evaluating these decisions and their merits in the reflective section. Stock portfolio: Create a professional presentation of all of the information you have gathered on your stocks throughout the term. Please keep in mind this is a professional presentation; therefore, matching fonts, styles, and readability will be considered in your grade. Prospectus: suggest what should be done with your stock portfolio going forward. Cite examples from the data you collected while making your suggestions. Please consider which stock you believe will perform in the future and which you believe should be sold. Make sure to consider how long a position you would recommend holding for various stocks. Reflections: In an essay, speaking as a student and not as a hypothetical professional, answer the following questions. Were you surprised by how your portfolio performed? What factors impacted your initial stock selection, and how would the knowledge you have gained in this course have affected the selection if you had it to do all over again? How did your perception of the state of the current economy affect your stock selection, and how would it have differed if the market were trending in the inverse direction? What market indicators did you find to be the most informative and why? Do you believe that deep research or intuition is a more important asset for an investor? Stock’s reported on in portfolio   Apple Facebook Amazon   Netflix’s   TOPIC'S DISCUSSED DURING THE COURSE.  1. Intrinsic value   2. A call whose strike price exceeds the price of the stock (out-of-the-money call).  A call whose strike price approximates the price of the stock (at-the-money call). A call whose strike price is less than the price of the stock (in-the-money call). 3.  Moving averages. Can you time buying or selling of stocks based on technical analysis? 4. Price-to-earnings ratio, price-to-sales ratio, price-to-book ratio, the PEG ratio, dividends, estimated growth rate, profit margin, and return on equity. 5. Standard Deviation and beta  

Learning Engagement #3 TOPIC: Address the following by evaluating your position on Critical Thinking, begin with the end in mind. Once you have completed your business plan, you have prepared your Executive Summary. Only a clear, concise, and compelling of your business plan will persuade your potential members and investors.  PROFESSOR'S GUIDANCE FOR THIS WEEK'S LE: Even though you will be writing your summary last, it is imperative for you to complete each part of your business plan well, reflecting the results of your planning and should be crafted only after careful consideration of all aspects. It is critical for you to ask yourself, "who will be reading and reviewing our business plan? You will improve your chances of a positive outcome. Why is your enterprise beneficial to the end-user? From the information management point of view will it be a successful enterprise once it is implemented? Consider all the critical factors for implementation and predict solutions. Through comprehensive research and review of widely cited literature, various factors will be the backbone of your business plan, communication across the IT and business boundaries. Teamwork; change management program and culture; top management support; business plan and vision; business process; project management; monitoring and evaluation of performance; project champion; appropriate business leadership and IT legacy system will strengthen in each step of the way your outcome.       Reply to  by Yo Han Song Taking care of nature has always been important, but reversing the effects of climate change has become more urgent over the past several years. More and more stories in the news and studies published by environmental scientists tell us to pay attention to our lifestyles and daily choices. This is why I came up with the business idea of embedding fruit seeds in our product (Eco Cups). One of the reasons our business will benefit the end-user is Eco Cups business with the motto: "All you seed is love" is biodegradable coffee cups with fruit seeds embedded into it. When this coffee cup is placed on the soil and watered, it will germinate and begin sprouting seedlings. Eventually, the coffee cup will decompose and leave the seedlings to grow into mature plants. Eco Cups will have the following sizes 8oz, 12oz, 16oz, 20oz (S, M, L, XL), and of course, the coffee sleeve will also have seeds embedded into it. Our product is a 100% sustainable product, and it ends up germinating into a fruit plant at the end of its life. Imagine having fruit trees on the streets that can feed the homeless and put smiles on their faces. Our recycled coffee cup and sleeve waste replace tree cutting that affects wildlife habitats. It takes 4.4 tons of virgin trees to make 1 ton of virgin paper pulp (Patosaari, 2007). Patosaari, P. (2007). Forest and Climate Change: Mitigation and Adaptation through Sustainable Forest Management. Remarks presented to the 60th Annual DPI/NGO Conference. United Nations, New York. by Jana Kmetova Critical thinking is thinking about specific circumstances that can happen on the way and finding the best solution. In critical thinking is vital to know which ideas are important and how they are linked, find possible unexpected intellectual errors, continuously process problems. Critical thinking starts with “WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, WHY, and HOW,” which is also defined in business plans. A business plan predicts the closest of the future that is based on current research and analysis. That is the reason why it is important to have critical thinking that is built from the points such as observation – thinking about the issue, identifying the arguments to the specific issue, evaluation of the point of view, recognition of negative points of the evidence, explanation and supporting of chosen argument that will be made (Skills You Need, 2021). PAOS, LLC can face future unexpected circumstances, and that is why it is vital to foresight possible decisions. It is important to understand all possible consequences and how they will influence employees, the company, and sales when we decide to make some decision. The executive summary will be the overall of the whole business plan; however, in a shortcut, here is the start of the summary. Paos LLC is a remodeling company based in San Diego. In small-sized companies, the company paints and remodels walls, floors, and ceilings. It has two owners where one owner already has a remodeling company based in Slovakia. Thus. It would serve as an added advantage to partnership management due to market experience in this service line. The paper discusses the business plan for Paos LLC in San Diego. I strongly believe that the half-ownership will finance the company from Slovakia. References: Skills You Need. (2021-2022). Critical Thinking Skills, Retrieved from https://www.skillsyouneed.com/learn/critical-thinking.html 299 words