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MGT510:

Please respond to the following in 200 words per question:

  • Assuming you are currently a store manager at Walmart and due to your fluency in the Japanese language, the company has assigned you to manage one of their Seiyu-brand stores in Japan. Determine the skills, strengths, or qualities that you possess, relative to the seven (7) dimensions of the Global Leadership and Organizational Behavior Effectiveness (GLOBE) Model, that would help you successfully manage your store. Predict two (2) cultural differences that may challenge your current management style, and suggest the key actions that could help you address them.
  • Imagine that your friend Teresa have worked in several capacities in different departments within her present company. This week, her company has promoted her from department manager to CEO, just as it begins to participate in international business. Devise at least five (5) rules that address conflict of interest for Teresa within this new context. Provide a rationale for your response.
  • Determine the key reasons why economic freedom is so critical to multinational companies (MNCs). Provide one (1) example from the information that you learned about China versus India to support your response.
  • Recommend two (2) ways in which multinational managers could apply the overarching principles from the four (4) major religions of the world in order to contribute positively to the business culture of a society. Provide a rationale for your response.
  • Assuming you are the new director of the South Asia region for Dunkin Donuts (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan, Afghanistan and Maldives). Select two countries from this list and recommend donut flavors that would resonate with the group. Provide rationale to support your reasoning.
  • Examine two (2) instances when multinational companies have used offensive or defensive competitive strategies. Determine the major advantages that global companies would have over domestic competitors in sustaining competitive advantage as a result of using offensive or defensive competitive strategies.
  • Imagine that you work for a small manufacturing company that uses an innovative, low-cost production method for making laser disks. A Malaysian firm approaches your CEO in order to license the technology. Outline the major potential risks and benefits of the prospective deal for your CEO. Provide two (2) suggestions for the CEO that would help him / her decide to either accept or decline the offer.
  • Analyze two (2) major political risks of operating a business within the selected emerging country. Propose two (2) actions that a multinational company could take in order to manage political risk in that country. Justify your response.

MGT599

Please respond to the following in 200 words per question:

  • Read the article titled “2016 Oil and Gas Trends”,located at http://www.strategyand.pwc.com/trends/2016-oil-and-gas-trends. Next, argue for or against this statement: Acompany should determine its goals and values before performing an industry analysis”. Explain your reasoning– you may use examples from other industries as well to support your response.
  • Examine the main different types of values that a company could seek to maximize. Give your opinion as to whether or not a company should maximize its profits or social good, when these two (2) are in conflict. Provide a rationale and / or a real-world example to support your response.
  • Read the article titled “Game Theory” at http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc1/GameTheory.html. In the article, the authors discussed a classic case of game theory (zero-sum games) of the Prisoner’s Dilemma (PD). There are many variations of this game in use. Suggest the manner in which organizations could apply PD to their business’ strategy formulation. Provide support for your response.
  • Refer to “Case 11 Ford and the World Automobile Industry in 2015” located in the “Excess Capacity” section, page 542 in your textbook, or use the Internet to research two to three (2-3) articles on the North American automobile and its market segments. Next, analyze the key ways that segmentation provides a competitive advantage or disadvantage to the North American automobile. Provide a rationale for your response.
  • Per the textbook, there are many possible structures that an organization can adopt. Give your opinion on the significant ways that an organization’s structure affects the organization’s ability to adapt to strategy initiatives. Provide a rationale and / or a real- world example to support your response.
  • Per the textbook, strategy is concerned with matching a firm’s resources and capabilities to the opportunities that arise in the external environment. Resources sometimes can be a constraint to an organization. Speculate on the role of stakeholders in resource identification in order for value creation and establishing competitive advantage for an organization. Support your response.
  • One staple of consulting is to advise clients to so-called “re-invent” themselves. Suggest the fundamental ways in which innovation matures a company. Provide a rationale and / or a real-world example to support your response.
  • It is well known that Apple has successfully established itself as the market leader in smartphones with its iPhone. Use the two primary dimensions (i.e., cost advantage and differentiation advantage) to recommend a strategy for Apple to sustain its competitive advantage in this market. Provide a rationale for your response.

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