New Premium Content and Enhanced Cartridge Content: includes chapter pre/post tests with results that auto populate instructors’ grade book, narrated chapter summaries, narrated PowerPoint slides, select videos, and key terms all available for students to download to their iPod’s and study on the go.
iGlobe! A revolutionary online video Web site available to instructors, (www.mhhe.com/iglobe), iGlobe provides instructors 2 on-demand videos per month from the PBS TV show, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Updated monthly, these videos cover breaking stories surrounding international business issues, which allow instructors to keep their course up to speed with the ever-changing world of business. The videos come complete with teaching notes and discussion questions as well as key concepts, which are identified in each video to save instructor’s time .
New Opening Vignettes! New opening vignettes have been included and appear at the beginning of each chapter. These present a real business problem or issue that provides background for the issues discussed in the chapter.
Re-constructed closing cases for each chapter - Opening cases featured in the sixth edition now appear at the end of every chapter in the seventh edition. Each case has been updated to reflect the changing environment in International Business and include discussion questions that allow students to apply the concepts of the case.
9 new end-of-part cases! Featured at the end of each part in the book are a total of 9 new and 12 retained cases. These stimulate discussion and show how chapter material relates to actual business problems. New part-ending cases include “Nike: The Sweatshop Debate,” “Matsushita and Japan’s Changing Culture,” Mired in Corruption-Kellogg, Brown, and Root in Nigeria,” “Logitech,” “The Samurai Bond Market,” “Wal-Mart’s Global Expansion,” “Black & Decker,” “Lincoln Electric” and “Molex.”
Updated GlobalEdge Research Tasks, created by Tunga Kiyak and Tomas Hult of the CIBER Center at Michigan State, are featured in each chapter. These exercises have been updated for the seventh edition and challenge students to solve problems similar to those faced by practicing international business managers and acquaint them with the tools and data real managers use and are ideal for Web-based courses. Instructors are given solutions and the URL where the information is located.
New! Learning Objectives appear at the beginning of each chapter to inform students about what they should understand after reading through the chapter.
New Appendix: International Trade and the Balance of Payments has been added at the end of chapter 5 to provide students with more information on international trade and the balance of payments.
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