Economic Development of Nations

Global Business Issues

Topic: Economic Development of Nations

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Course Project: Global Business Issues in Industrial Companies

Final Report Guidelines

· Group project: 1) Group is formed by student self. Students can work by him/her self, or work with another one or two or three or four other students; 2) target “Global Business” area from one industrial company or a global business company in the real world; 3) Develop the plan for the project including a) topic focusing, b) collect materials from the company, c) questions to be addressed; d) analysis methods; 4) report writing.

· Written Report: The written report should be computer-printed, and include the following minimum components:

· A cover page, which indicates the title of the report, the team and its members, affiliation, date, etc.;

· A Table of Contents, which indicates the titles of each major sections in the report, and their page numbers;

· An Abstract which is a very brief summary of the report (no more than 2/3 of a page);

· Introduction which describes the topic background of the company;

· Body of the report, which should be divided as several sections based on your need. This part is the core of the report which reflects what you or your group has done or analyzed in this topic; all the completed work should be well organized and reflected in this part. If there are some drawing, curves, figures, etc., they should be arranged in a proper section;

· Conclusion remarks reflecting the results or summary from your project work;

· Bibliography (References);

· Acknowledgement.

· Appendices, at least, one is required which is the Team Records.

· Nine pages (double space) not including the pages for “appendices”.

Task due date:

The dates will be announced when approaching Thanksgiving.

Rubrics for the Assessment of the Project

The final grade for the project is as follows

· At least nine pages (double space) from cover page to acknowledgement (20).

· Well organization from abstract, introduction, analysis, conclusions, references to acknowledgement (10).

· Well writing in a fashionable style and professional words (15).

· Good analysis based on the solid standpoints or project questions to solve (35).

· Justified results and managerial implications (20).