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Prof. Don Kopka, Ph.D. Management Dept. Office: ST 114B

FALL 2014 TSEM 102 - Towson Seminar, Section 049 World Business Environment and the United States Tuesday and Thursday, 2:00 to 3:15 pm, ST 115 Course web page: http://pages.towson.edu/kopka/towson_ seminar.htm. Prof. Don Kopka, Ph.D. Management Dept. Office: ST 114B

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Prof. Don Kopka, Ph.D. Management Dept. Office: ST 114B

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  1. FALL 2014TSEM 102 - Towson Seminar, Section 049World Business Environment and the United StatesTuesday and Thursday, 2:00 to 3:15 pm, ST 115Course web page: http://pages.towson.edu/kopka/towson_seminar.htm 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

  2. What’s in an iPhone? Pair up, and together identify what you think is in an iPhone What do you think about outsourcing?

  3. 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 • iPhone 4 components cost around $188 http://touchreviews.net/iphone-4-components-cost-188-isuppli/ • 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

  4. What does Professor Kopka do? Teaches in Towson, Vietnam, and Panama Eats Crickets Drinks Beer

  5. Beginnings STUDENT INFORMATION SHEET • What are you interested in learning about the world business environment and the United States? • What experience do you have writing research papers? • You MUST have and use a towson.edu email account for this course

  6. Textbooks Zakaria, Fareed, The Post-American World, Release 2.0, New York: W. W. Norton, 2011. Articles from Harvard Business Review, March 2012, available at Towson University bookstore. Other readings on eReserve.

  7. Kopka’s Course Web Pagehttp://pages.towson.edu/kopka/towson_seminar.htm • Go to Kopka’s course web page indicated above for “TSEM –World Business Environment and the United States,” to download, print, read syllabus and course schedule; available by Sunday afternoon, August 31, 2014 • Syllabus and schedule discussed onTuesday September 2, 2014

  8. READINGS • For Tuesday, September 2, 2014 • 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 • Our Economic Pickle http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/sunday-review/americas-productivity-climbs-but-wages-stagnate.html • It’s a Flat World After Allhttp://pages.towson.edu/kopka/career_management/flat_world.doc • For Thursday, September 4, 2014 • Chapters 1, 2, and 3 in The Post-American World, Release 2.0

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