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Market Entry Strategies: exports, acquisition, joint ventures, franchises, and foreign subsidiaries

Market Entry Strategies: exports, acquisition, joint ventures, franchises, and foreign subsidiaries

  1. Please take a look at the Case #5 Harley-Davidson and answer following questions (20 points).
  1. If you were CEO of Harley-Davidson, how would you compare the advantages and disadvantages of using exports, joint ventures, and foreign subsidiaries as ways of expanding international sales?
  1. In America, Harley has shifted the positioning of its products away from simply motorcycles and more toward being status symbols of a particular lifestyle. What are the implications of cultural factors for positioning in other countries that Harley has targeted for growth—ones like Japan, China, France, and Brazil?
  1. Please take a look at the Case #6 In-N-Out Burger and answer following questions (20 points).
  1. Rich Snyder was twenty-four years old when he assumed leadership of In-N-Out after his father passed away. In what ways do you think his young age was an asset or a liability for his leadership? Does age really matter in entrepreneurship?
  1. In an era of fusion cuisine and extreme fajitas, is In-N-Out’s long-term strategy of offering only four simple food items still on track? How about the firm’s approach to employees? Does it give them an edge over the fast-food competition?
  1. Please take a look at the Case #7 Amazon and answer following questions (20 points).
  1. In what ways does Bezos’s decision to develop and deliver the Kindle and Kindle Fire, and Fire TV lines show systematic and intuitive thinking?
  1. How do you describe the competitive risk in Amazon’s environment as Wal-Mart, Barnes and Noble, and other retailers strengthen their online offerings?
  1. Consider that you own rights to a plot of land under which there may or may not be oil. You are considering three alternatives: doing nothing (“do not drill”), drilling at your own expense of $500,000, or “farming out” the opportunity to someone who will drill the well and give you part of the profit if the well is successful. You see three possible states of nature:
  • a dry hole
  • a mildly interesting small well
  • a very profitable gusher.

(40points)

You estimate the probabilities of the three states of nature pj and the nine outcomes as shown in the following table.

  1. Please calculate the expected value of the three alternatives and choose the best alternative among three alternatives.
  2. Please determine the best alternative based on optimistic approach
  3. Please determine the best alternative based on pessimistic approach
  4. Please determine the best alternative based on Hurwicz approach if α = 0.2

Collaborative Decision Making Through Shared Governance

Attend a committee meeting in your health care organization. If you are not currently employed in
a health care setting, you may elect to attend a committee meeting at another company, a
community center, a local school, local chamber of commerce or other professional organization.
Observe the interactions between committee members and the process used by the committee
to arrive at decisions.
In 500-750 words, describe the function of the committee and the roles of those in attendance.
Describe your observations of the interactions between members of the committee and
determine whether the process used to arrive at decisions is a form of shared governance.

A minimum of two academic references from credible sources are required for this assignment.
Submit the completed “Collaborative Committee Meeting Verification Form” with the assignment.
Prepare this assignment according to the APA guidelines found in the APA Style Guide, located
in the Student Success Center. An abstract is not required.
This assignment uses a grading rubric. Instructors will be using the rubric to grade the
assignment; therefore, students should review the rubric prior to beginning the assignment to
become familiar with the assignment criteria and expectations for successful completion of the
assignment.
You are required to submit this assignment to LopesWrite. Refer to the LopesWrite Technical
Support articles for assistance.

Global Talent Management at Novartis

Your analysis should be about 2 pages (600+ words) and address all the questions below.
1. Is there one universal way for a multinational company to motivate its employees around the
world exert maximum effort and be accountable for their results? (1 point)
2. Evaluate the potential effectiveness of Novartis’s standardized system for performance
measurement around the world. (1 point)
(a) Would you advise Novartis to require the use of “normal”/bell-shaped grading distribution
around the world? (1 point)
(b) What would be your strategy for managing those who rank consistently at the bottom of
Novartis’ distribution? Would you choose to act like GE did and dismiss them after a certain
probation period? (1 point)
3. Evaluate Novartis’s strategy for dealing with talent management challenges in China. If you
were put in a charge of China operations, what changes would you make to deal with the
turnover problem? (1 point)