BUSN601: Help for Global Mgmt Perspective

This guide will highlight resources available to APUS students, faculty, and staff.

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Quick Start Links

You will want to identify a company and then find its business operations to see where they do business.  One good start is to find the company annual report for this information or the company website. The Investor Relations section of website or annual report will usually discuss a company's business ventures.  Financial filings will often provide an overview of their market products or brands along with distribution or supply chain information.

Example of Company and Business Operations

Company:  Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS)

Hasbro website

• Hasbro Corporate:  http://corporate.hasbro.com/en-us.
• Select Investors tab > See this screen shot on page for link to Brand information
  •  Investor Fact Sheet from Brand Blueprint Click here
  • Annual Reports:  http://investor.hasbro.com/annuals.cfm
  • 10K will provide overview of brands, market, segments, international business, etc.

Using the library website to do a search, try typing :  "Hasbro Inc" into the search box 

Try searching specific databases, like Nexis Uni  for company information, find it listed in the Best Bets on Global Databases

See these Helpful Links

Search : Exports > Using the library website -- here are some search options: 

• (Enter Location) AND exports AND (Enter Company)
• (Enter Location) AND trade AND "global operations"  AND exports
• (Enter Location) AND Corporations AND "global operations" AND exports
• (Enter Location) AND "multinational firms" AND exports

Helpful Links for Background Resources

US Export Resources

Search  Help

Assignment is to locate information on the importance of culture in global business

Using the library website, possible keyword searches

• "global business" AND culture AND significance
• (global OR international) business AND culture AND (importance OR significance)

More suggested search terms::

organizational culture

business culture

corporate culture

Three Forces : Consumer market |  Industrial market |  Government market

Using the library website --  Suggest using filtering options to narrow results!

Example using United States

• United States AND "consumer market"
• United States AND "industrial market"
• United States AND "government market"

Example using United States

• "consumer market" AND ("United States OR U.S. OR US)
• "industrial market" AND ("United States" OR U.S. OR US)
• "government market" AND ("United States" OR U.S. OR US)

Helpful Links for Background Resources

 Locating policies toward (a) governance, (b) competitive markets, (c) property rights, and (d) corruption

Example:   Here using China as the selected country, possible searches:

                 Globalization AND China AND (promote or strategies) AND governance

                 Globalization AND China AND (promote or strategies) AND "competitive markets"

                  Globalization AND China AND (promote or strategies) AND “property rights”

                  Globalization AND China AND (promote or strategies) AND corruption

Helpful Links for Background Resources