The client was a young IT professional who wanted to start-up a new company. The idea was to combine virtual reality developments with online education which was getting quite popular after coronavirus pandemic in 2020. Furthermore, the client was getting ready to launch virtual offices as well. Test runs have shown a strong interest from many companies as this would allow to save a lot of money on office spaces, utilities and supplies.

you have also asked the client which criteria is the most important for the new company: (a) organizational requirements and costs, (b) liability of the owners, (c) the continuity of the business, (d) the transferability of ownership, (e) management control and regulations, (f) the ability to raise capital or (g) income taxes.

Question . Specify the most suited legal form of business for each above mentioned criterion and explain the reason. Answer: a, b, c, d, e, f, and g

You are a senior manager in a U.S. automobile company who is considering investing in production facilities in China, Russia, or Germany. These facilities will serve the local market demand. Develop a summary that determines the benefits, costs, and risks associated with doing business in each nation. Which country seems to be the most attractive target for foreign direct investment? Why? The course is International Business and Global Strategy.

You are a senior manager in a U.S. automobile company who is considering investing in production facilities in China, Russia, or Germany. These facilities will serve the local market demand. Develop a summary that determines the benefits, costs, and risks associated with doing business in each nation. Which country seems to be the most attractive target for foreign direct investment? Why?

The course is DBA 8710 International Business and Global Strategy

A company applies an aptitude test to all those who apply for jobs as programmers. The results of these tests are analyzed according to their precedence (general advertising, ads in specialized magazines, employment agencies, personal recommendations or people who come spontaneously). With a significance level of 0.025, determine if there is a difference between the results of these tests according to their precedence. Your work should have detailed procedure, in this exercise you can use the tool offered by Excel for the required test, but you have to have the appropriate analysis.

a property company who will also operate the building is deciding whether to build a standard efficiency office building or a high efficiency office building. The office building is 8,000 m2 and its energy is supplied 100% by electricity. The standard efficiency office tower will consume approximately 140 kWh / m2 /y. The high efficiency office tower will consume approximately 100 kWh / m2 /y. The incremental cost (i.e. the cost between the standard efficiency and high efficiency office tower) is $40 per m2 and the building systems are expected to last 25 years. 8a. What is the estimated annual energy cost savings per year for the high efficiency building compared to the standard efficiency building? o 8b. Does it make sense for the property company to invest in the high efficiency office building?

You are a senior manager in a U.S. automobile company who is considering investing in production facilities in China, Russia, or Germany. These facilities will serve the local market demand. Develop a summary that determines the benefits, costs, and risks associated with doing business in each nation. Which country seems to be the most attractive target for foreign direct investment? Why? The course is International Business and Global Strategy.

A company applies an aptitude test to all those who apply for work as programmers. The results of these tests are analyzed according to their precedence (general advertising, advertisements for specialized magazines, employment agencies, personal recommendations or people who come spontaneously). With a significance level of 0.025, determine if there is a difference between the results of these tests according to their precedence.

Your work should have detailed procedure, in this exercise you can use the tool offered by Excel for the required test, but you have to have the appropriate analysis.

YOU BE THE VC 6.2   COMPANY: Ava

Pitch: It is difficult for people who are deaf or hearing- impaired to follow conversations in group settings such as a family dinner, a business meeting, a presentation, or lunch with friends. Even in a setting where every par- ticipant knows sign language, picking up an entire con- versation is challenging. Sign language relies on people watching each other sign, and in a group setting people often talk that are not directly looking at each other. The only option that people with hearing problems have to fully capture a group conversation is to hire a transcriber or interpreter. That’s an impractical solution, given that transcribers and interpreters charge up to $125 per hour. Hearing aids are available for people who are hearing- impaired, but the cost is often a deterrent and hearing aids have varying levels of effectiveness.
Ava is a smartphone app designed to tackle this problem. Here’s how it works. Ava connects all the smartphones in a room via an app. All a person with hearing difficulties has to do is invite the people in the room to participate, and if they have Ava on their phones, they can accept the invite. Ava will then, through the microphone in each par- ticipant’s smartphone, transcribe the conversation in real time and display the transcription on the hearing-impaired person’s phone. Each person’s comments include their name and show up in a different color. Ava’s interface will also show a small photo of each person who is involved with the conversation. So if Jane, who is deaf, invites Ava at the beginning of a family dinner, and all the members of Jane’s family have the Ava app and accept Jane’s invite, Jane can follow the conversation on her smartphone. The transcriptions, which are made possible via the speech recognition technology, are made in less than one second. Ava allows people with hearing difficulties to connect, engage, and enjoy rather than dread group conversa- tions. The value that Ava adds to its users’ lives is very personal for two of its three founders, Thibault Duchemin and Skinner Cheng. Cheng has been deaf since he was two years old and Duchemin is a coda, meaning he grew up with deaf family members.
There are 360 million people in the world who are deaf or hearing-impaired, which is roughly 5 percent of the world’s population. Ava’s mission is to make its solution available to anyone who can benefit from it anywhere, enriching the social engagement of the people who utilize the service.

What questions would you ask the firm’s founders before making your funding decision? What answers would satisfy you?

YOU BE THE VC 6.2   COMPANY: Ava

Pitch: It is difficult for people who are deaf or hearing- impaired to follow conversations in group settings such as a family dinner, a business meeting, a presentation, or lunch with friends. Even in a setting where every par- ticipant knows sign language, picking up an entire con- versation is challenging. Sign language relies on people watching each other sign, and in a group setting people often talk that are not directly looking at each other. The only option that people with hearing problems have to fully capture a group conversation is to hire a transcriber or interpreter. That’s an impractical solution, given that transcribers and interpreters charge up to $125 per hour. Hearing aids are available for people who are hearing- impaired, but the cost is often a deterrent and hearing aids have varying levels of effectiveness.
Ava is a smartphone app designed to tackle this problem. Here’s how it works. Ava connects all the smartphones in a room via an app. All a person with hearing difficulties has to do is invite the people in the room to participate, and if they have Ava on their phones, they can accept the invite. Ava will then, through the microphone in each par- ticipant’s smartphone, transcribe the conversation in real time and display the transcription on the hearing-impaired person’s phone. Each person’s comments include their name and show up in a different color. Ava’s interface will also show a small photo of each person who is involved with the conversation. So if Jane, who is deaf, invites Ava at the beginning of a family dinner, and all the members of Jane’s family have the Ava app and accept Jane’s invite, Jane can follow the conversation on her smartphone. The transcriptions, which are made possible via the speech recognition technology, are made in less than one second. Ava allows people with hearing difficulties to connect, engage, and enjoy rather than dread group conversa- tions. The value that Ava adds to its users’ lives is very personal for two of its three founders, Thibault Duchemin and Skinner Cheng. Cheng has been deaf since he was two years old and Duchemin is a coda, meaning he grew up with deaf family members.
There are 360 million people in the world who are deaf or hearing-impaired, which is roughly 5 percent of the world’s population. Ava’s mission is to make its solution available to anyone who can benefit from it anywhere, enriching the social engagement of the people who utilize the service.

If you had to make your decision on just the information provided in the pitch and on the company’s website, would you fund this company? Why or why not?

The company who makes Chips Ahoy cookies states that there is an average of 23 chocolate chips per cookie. You take a sample of cookies and count the chips. For your sample of 30 cookies, the average # of chips in the cookies is 23.6 chips with a standard deviation of 2 chips. Use this data to test the claim that the company makes. Use a 95% significance level but you may use a two tailed OR a one tailed test. You decide. Does your hypothesis test support the claim that Chip Ahoy is making?

Provide a 95% confidence interval to estimate the true number of chips in Chips Ahoy cookies. Does your interval support the claim of the company?