Transcript MNGT 361 Principles of Management

SPRING 2016
MNGT 375 International Business:
Theory and Practice
Section 001: 9:00 to 9:50 am
Monday – Wednesday - Friday, ST 107
Prof. Don Kopka, Ph.D.
Management Dept.
Office: ST 114B
Office Hours: Monday and Wednesday 3:30 to 5:00 pm
email: [email protected]
Office phone: 410-704-3234
Cell phone: 410-497-4424
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What’s in an
iPhone?
Pair up, and together identify what
you think is in an iPhone
What do you think about outsourcing?
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Where do those iPhone contents
come from?
•iPhone – who’s the real manufacturer
http://texyt.com/iphone+manufacturer+supplier+assembler+not+ap
ple+00113
•Breakdown of iPhone components: Assembled in China for
US$6.50! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/11445/breakdown-iphonecomponents-assembled-china-us650
•How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-asqueezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&pagewanted=all
•iPhone 4 components cost around $188
http://touchreviews.net/iphone-4-components-cost-188-isuppli/
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Beginnings
STUDENT INFORMATION SHEET
– What are you interested in learning
about international business from this
course?
– You MUST have and use a
towson.edu email account for this
course
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Textbook
Global Business Today, seventh edition,
2011
by Charles W. L. Hill
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Kopka’s Course Web Page
http://pages.towson.edu/kopka/mngt_375.htm
• Go to Kopka’s course web page indicated above for
“MNGT 375 – International Business,” to download,
print, read syllabus and course schedule for Monday,
February 1, 2016
• Syllabus and schedule discussed on for Monday,
February 1, 2016
• For Monday, February 1, read Chapter 1 in textbook
and “Ikea” handout
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