Quarter 4, 2011-2012 sy
International Business
Big 6/6+1 Activities
Virtual Business Management Program Lessons 1-3
Learn vocabulary and some of the issues involved in running a company
April 16-20
April 23-27
STEMposium
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Virtual Business Management Program Lessons 1-12
Save all documents as instructed in email.
Start working on your case study!!! Make appointments for interviews. Take photos.
1. Look at: http://www.benjerry.com/company/history/ What types of business
April 30 – May 4
forms has Ben and Jerry’s ice cream used from 1978 until now? Why would
STAMP Testing
they make these changes? What changes did they have to do to go
international? What business form do they use in Germany? How well does that
seem to work? http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Ben-amp;-JerrysHomemade-Inc-Company-History.html Due May 7
1. Do Executive Summary of Business Simulation.
May 7-11
2. Start Sim 1, Standard City. Earn $500,000.
AP Exams
3. Continue working on your case study!
May 14-18
JROTC Drill
Finals
AP Exams
May 21-25
US History
Tests
Europeans
May 29 – June 1
Memorial Day
1. Continue personal sim until you are a millionaire. Go on if you're way ahead and
see what more competitors cause.
2. On Wed/Thur and Friday, run the multiplayer game and compete against the
other classes.
3. Do quia.com quiz about Business Mgmt
4. Continue working on your case study, especially seniors!!
1. Chapter Nine--read and questions p. 216, 1-4; p. 222, 1-4; p. 226, choose two
questions
2. Learn about Leadership styles at
http://psychology.about.com/od/leadership/a/leadstyles.htm
3. According to their quiz Psychology Tests and Quizzes What is your style?
4. In 100-150 words, compare and contrast Transactional and Transformational
leadership.
5. Make appt for next week’s interview and your case study interview (probably
three different people unless one of your store people is a dual career person)
6. Do Quia.com quiz and follow-up
7. Continue working on your case study, especially seniors!!
1. Interview an international dual career (adults working for companies/agencies
from two different countries) family member, such as Derek Hyde, Maheila
Vatamann, or one of the Sato Travel employees, focusing on the demands of
their job, job training, schedules, travel, and how it affects their family lives.
i. Create a list of questions—10 %
ii. Make an appointment and share the list of questions—10 %
iii. Have the interview—10 %
iv. Write up the answers after each question plus a summary of what you
learned —40 %
Quarter 4, 2011-2012 sy
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4.
June 4 - 8
HS Awards
Graduation
Semester
Exams
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v. What challenges do they have compared to families where both spouses
work for companies in the same country? —30 % due 05/31
Choose a career used in international businesses that would interest you. What
special training, schooling, visas, etc., would you need to do it in one of the
countries you researched last quarter? How would the pay and living conditions
compare with that of your home town in the US or with Ansbach? How can you
use your overseas time now to benefit you in the future? One full page due
05/31
Read Chapter 16. List the software programs and explain what you’d need to do
in order to allow your Business Simulation company to work electronically. How
would customers place orders? How could they access files needed from your
company without being able to access private files (payroll, etc.)? What would be
the most efficient (secure and fast) form(s) of communication within your
company and with your customers?
Seniors, be finishing up your semester projects. You present to the class next
Tuesday!
Find two articles online about the benefits and challenges of international ecommerce. Easiest is to look up ‘e-commerce’ in the Gale Group online database
(http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ansbhs password ra!dodea ). Summarize the
articles. What are some of the good and bad parts of doing business
internationally using the Internet?
Work on case studies. Seniors present to the class on Tuesday.
Seniors present case studies to class on June 5th!!
Case Study
p. 76-77
June 11-13
Case Study—p. 76-77—choose a store type and focus on that for your study
Visit a few stores (Commissary or AAFES and two German stores) during the
quarter. Think about the layouts of the stores, the types of products they offer,
their online offerings, etc. Talk to a store manager or other worker about their
store and how it works—focus of types of merchandise, layout, determining prices,
etc. Take pictures of or sketch the layout, types of merchandise, etc. Take along
this paper so they know you’re studying this, not spying  .
1. Record your resources as you research, including the addresses of the stores
you visit and the names of the people you interview. Include this at the end of
your report/PPT.
2. Report to the class with either a written report if 3+ pages or a presentation of
10+ slides with speaker’s notes. Include graphics, such as, photos of the layouts
of the stores, ads from the newspaper or Internet, and screenshots from their
website to help in your comparisons.
Other Students--Finish case studies and present to your class Tuesday, June 12