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FALL 2014 MNGT 375 International Business: Theory and Practice Section 101: 5:00 to 6:15 pm Tuesday and Thursday, ST 107. Prof. Don Kopka, Ph.D. Management Dept. Office: ST 114B Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 to 4:30 pm email: dkopka@towson.edu Office phone: 410-704-3234
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FALL 2014MNGT 375 International Business: Theory and PracticeSection 101: 5:00 to 6:15 pmTuesday and Thursday, ST 107 Prof. Don Kopka, Ph.D. Management Dept. Office: ST 114B Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday, 3:30 to 4:30 pm email: dkopka@towson.edu Office phone: 410-704-3234 Cell phone: 410-497-4424
What’s in an iPhone? Pair up, and together identify what you think is in an iPhone What do you think about outsourcing?
Where do those iPhone contents come from? • iPhone – who’s the real manufacturer http://texyt.com/iphone+manufacturer+supplier+assembler+not+apple+00113 • Breakdown of iPhone components: Assembled in China for US$6.50! http://www.iphonelife.com/blog/11445/breakdown-iphone-components-assembled-china-us650 • How the U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/22/business/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html?pagewanted=1&_r=0&pagewanted=all • iPhone 4 components cost around $188 http://touchreviews.net/iphone-4-components-cost-188-isuppli/
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
Textbook Global Business Today, seventh edition, 2011 by Charles W. L. Hill
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; available by Sunday afternoon, August 31, 2014 • Syllabus and schedule discussed on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 • For Tuesday, September 2, read Chapter 1 in textbook and “Ikea” handout and “It’s a Flat World, After All,” available athttp://pages.towson.edu/kopka/career_management/flat_world.doc