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MBA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS I YEAR

1.1 PRINCIPLES OF MANAGEMENT
1. Management is the force which leads guides and directs an organization in the accomplishment of pre-determined objectives . Do you agree or disagree? Justify.
2. Take any two Indian companies and examine how they have succeeded or failed due to poor strategic planning.
3. A good leader is not necessarily a good manager . Take one example from service industry as per your choice and compare the role of leaders and managers.
4. The only planning tool we need in the company is the budget. If everyone meets his or her budget, we need nothing else, and management by objectives would be an unnecessary frill . Comment.

1.2 INTERNATIONAL ACCOUNTING
1. Review and comment on the work undertaken for harmonization by various bodies and explain the details of standard setting process by International Accounting Standard Board(IASB)
2. Structure of an organization should be tailor made search for a typical structure is vain Comment on this statement and discuss the factors affecting organization structure
3. Compare and contrast the following proposed approaches for dealing with international differences in accounting, disclosure and auditing standards a). Reciprocity; b) Reconciliation c) International Standards
4. What is the difference between harmonization and standardization? If comparability is considered desirable, how should it be achieved? Do multinational enterprises warrant special international accounting standards, or should such standards be applied to all companies?

1.3 INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
1. Do the IMF and other financial institutions play a vital role in foreign trade policy? If so elucidate the points with apt examples.
2. Describe the term Balance of payments Indicate broad categories of transaction in balance of payments. Is it necessary for the countries to manage balance of payments? Suggest some measures to change deficit balance of payment into surplus balance of payment.
3. Write a note on exchange rate. What are the positive and negative effects, India faced due to Fluctuations in its currency against U.S. dollar in the recent past.
4. The concept of foreign trade multiplier is one of the major things in any International Business Environment . Briefly discuss the above with current examples.

1.4 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT
1. Take an export oriented firm in readymade garments industry of your choice. What are the different nontrade barriers that it faces? What are your suggestions to the firm? Explain
2. Explain the role of SDR s and international organization like IBRD, IFC, and IDA.
3. a) Enumerate the various legislations governing foreign trade in India, giving main provisions of any one of them.
b) Location theory explains, why foreign direct investment moves from one country to another in search of optimum location. Explain.
c) What are other factors which are important to know the flow of foreign direct investment.
4. Take any company and discuss how its marketing strategy is different in its home country and foreign country give the reason on it had to be different.

1.5 FOREIGN POLICY OF INDIA
1. Bring to light the recent changes in India s Foreign Policy. In what way, the changes are instrumental for the promotion of India international trade?
2. Focus on India s relationship both political and trade with the United States. Do you agree this relationship is mutually beneficial? Defend your answer.
3. Small scale industrial sector which was supposed to be benefited by the canalizing system was most affected one by the canalizing system Discuss this paradox scenario and explain canalizing agencies role in India s foreign trade.
4. Discuss the role of prime minister in India s foreign policy formulation since independence.

1.6 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND E-COMMERCE
1. How a barcode works when you pay for an item in a retail store? What retail store managers can do with the information collected by the barcode readers? Explain the problems of using barcodes?
2. Assume a Business Environment in manufacturing sector. Define and design a system to automate the business process with necessary implementation of IT. Give the block diagram, DFD and soon if necessary.
3. Explain in detail on-line airline ticketing system. How is it different form conventional system? Explain with the help of a diagram, type of transactions one can do, mode of payments and the various security features of on-line banking system.
4. Clustering has been popularity recognized as an important data mining task with broad applications - Discuss and give one example for each of the following cases.
(a) An application that takes clustering as a major data mining function.
(b) An application that takes clustering as a pre-processing tool for data preparation for another data mining task.

1.7 COMMUNICATION FOR GLOBAL MANAGERS
1. Discuss any situation in which you are involved where the communication went wrong. Analyze the communication process in that situation, using the term sender, receiver and other elements. Which element(s) disturbed the situation? What lesson you learnt?
2. Explain the basic ingredients of an effective office memo. How can it be used as a very strong tool to send the right message and get the necessary action?
3. a) Why do you think the communication plays a vital role in organizations?
b) Discuss the communication process in Detail.
4. Informal Communication announces bad moods of Managers Under What Circumstance this statement is valid? Explain.

1.8 ORGANISATIONAL BEHAVIOUR
1. While managing workforce, Participation is an excellent method for identifying differences and resolving conflicts. Do you agree or disagree? Illustrate with real life examples.
2. Some changes in organisations are unplanned, where as others are the result of strategic plans. Give examples of each of their verities of change and explain their implications for organisational functioning.
3. Once you are established in your careers, what special challenges are you likely to confront? What can you do to enhance your chance of having a fully satisfying successful career?
4. Learning is involved in almost everything that everyone does . Substantiate your views and indentify the applications of learning in positive and negative reinforcement s strategy.

MBA INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS II YEAR
2.1 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
1. Identify the environmental, organizational and individual challenges of IHRM in 21st century. In your opinion which will be least important. Justify with your comments.
2. Design an application blank to be used for recruitment of blue collar workmen and explain in what way it should differ from an application blank for supervisory personal.
3. a) Evaluating the performance of International managers is challenging job State your opinion.
b) Construct a well-defined Recruitment and Selection policy for an International service oriented Organization.
4. Can you easily solve the work conflict in a Multinational Company? Explain with suitable examples.

2.2 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING MANAGEMENT
1. Describe the differences between ethnocentric, polycentric, regiocentric and geocentric orientations. How do these orientations affect international marketing practices? Explain by giving two examples.
2. When MNC's enter India, they compromise on several aspects in their products to satisfy the price conscious Indian consumers. Do you accept this? Give examples from automobiles and FMCG sector.
3. The vice president of an export house has asked you to prepare a market profile of leather foot wears in Saudi Arabia. What factors would you consider in preparing the profile? What sources of information will you look for in preparing the above profile?
4. Compare the basic differences between calculation of price for selling in the home market and in export markets, indicating the direct and indirect cost elements that are usually taken in to account in each case.

2.3 INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
1. Asses the competitive strength and weakness of European, U.S. and Japanese Bank. How financial deregulation in Japan and Europe is are likely to affect the competitive balance in international banking?
2. International business volume is expected to grow with the process of globalization. How do you analyze this statement?
3. Discuss the exchange rate Depreciation with suitable examples.
4. Indian Government recently made a major policy decision permitting FDI in retail sector. Discuss its impact on domestic retail segment.

2.4 LOGISTICS AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
1. Assume that a FMCG company is entering into India which has its network in more than 20 countries across the world. The company is planning to have its business throughout India. As a Logistic manager, how do you support the company in achieving its objectives? Give illustrations.
2. Many innovations on technology-based approaches are well-suited to the enhancement of the effectiveness of Supply Chain Management Justify this statement by giving few applications of information technology in SCM.
3. Give arguments to support the statement the Wal-Mart has achieved very good strategic fit between its competitive and supply chain strategies.
4. "Many Innovations on technology-based approaches are well-suited to the enhancement of the effectiveness of supply chain management" - Justify your views with examples.

2.5 GLOBAL STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT
1. What do you understand by Global strategic management process? Take the case of any Multinational Company you are familiar with and discuss its strategic management process.
2. What is core competence? How to identify, build, deploy and protect core competence? Illustrate with your own examples.
3. What are the precautionary measures a firm has to adopt before deciding its communication strategy for its global brand? Take the case of body deodorant and home furniture as examples and discuss.
4. The unification of Europe has forced many businesses expand their global concerns to include neighboring countries Critically evaluate this statement.

2.6 INTERNATIONAL TRADE POLICIES AND DOCUMENTATION
1. Examine how specific export promotion measures have benefited any company of your choice.
2. Explain the EXIM policy and procedures adopted by India, since post liberalization.
3. Explain the need for preparing export documents.
4. Explain the concept of international business. Do you subscribed to the view that International Business has to face greater amount of complexities than the domestic Business? Substantiate your argument with reasoning.

2.7.1 INTERNATIONAL MARKETING RESEARCH AND CONSUMER BEHAVIOUR
1. If you were to formulate the most critical learning points concerning the use and the conduct of international marketing research, what points would you come up with, both from an academic and a managerial perspective?
2. Assume you are appointed as a marketing head in a leading FMCG company in India. As part of the development process the company wants to expand its business operations internationally to its neighboring countries. You are given the task as following. a) Identifying the market and its segmentation b) Studying the consumer behavior c) Do product research d) Examining the market opportunities. Narrate your role to carry out the above task by doing market research.
3. How can educational and business institutions assist the international marketer in overcoming the problems posed by marketing relativism and the unconscious use of the self-reference criterion? Discuss with examples.
4. Identify the principal methods that companies might use in assessing and reviewing opportunities across international markets. Suggest alternate means by which firms can priorities and segment international markets.

2.7.2 EXPORT AND IMPORT FINANCE
1. Describe the new trends in India s global trading pattern with future prospects.
2. Inflation rate as well as interest rates will affect the value of currency rates Discuss and also explain the reasons for variation of the inflation rate.
3. Export incentives are major factors to encourage the EXIM business - Do you agree? Explain with suitable examples
4. Credit Insurance agencies will help the exporter & importer in financial payments prove it.