Investment Strategies in Present Times

Decision Making theory and tools are an aid for making difficult decisions easier. One of the difficult decisions many people face is, where to invest their money. The decision becomes more difficult once the economy starts to slow down. A start-up investment company is looking for a group of people who can help them in providing scientific data about making a better investment decision for their clientele. The company plans to target young people within the age group of 25 to 40 years who are interested in investing $10,000. The survey carried out by the company shows that the people within this age group are generally interested in investing in the one of the following securities: Stocks Bonds Certificate of Deposits Real Estate The Company has contacted Team No 7 to assist it in formulating the investment strategy by using the decision-making theory and tools learned during the EGMT 530/630 course. Note: The presentation associated with this report is included here as a supplemental file

Strategy & Policy Issues: Telecommunication Industry

Introduction: This is the era of communications. The impact cannot be overstated. This is one of the most rapidly growing segments of high-tech industry. Rapid changes are taking place the communication market to meet the new demands and to achieve revenue growth. It has also fueled growth and expansion in many other areas of high-tech industry. Once upon a time, information technology (IT) and telecommunication were two separate and discrete entities. Information technology was a means of tracking and storing information, while telecommunication was just a means of keeping us all connected. During past several years, these and other technologies are rapidly converging. The convergence of voice, video and data networks, has created further opportunities and threats for service providers. This convergence with deregulation has created a market where the broadcasters, satellite companies, Internet / service providers and other service providers are looking to provide integrated services to consumers and businesses. In this report, we will outline the telecommunication industry, review the market trends and identify the strategic and policy issues faced by the telecommunications industry.

Team Report

Even though cross-cultural research on teams and group work has long been a social agenda, phenomenal growth in this direction has taken place in the last decade or so. The main motivating factors behind this has been: One diversification of workforce across the globe in general and the United States in particular and secondly the innovation of Internet has given tremendous boost to the globalization of businesses. While the financial benefits of globalization has been realized in the short term, the real issue that has stemmed is that frequent interaction of diverse cultures in teams and group work has often resulted in ethnocentricity and sometimes observance of \u27irrational behavior\u27. This has mainly· been due to the fact that global managers had almost no experience in cross-cultural skills. This paper analyses the causes and effects of cross-cultural behaviors and their consequences on the performance of teamwork. The authors of this paper, having themselves worked in cross-cultural teams have added their experiences as a contribution towards research in this direction. While cross-cultural teams bring diversity of opinion:, it has been observed that new ideas and unique solutions have stemmed out of such teams. The enhancement of cross-cultural team performance lies in understanding the intricacies of different cultures and using them to the advantage of the output of team. Global managers need to understand this and train themselves to deal with cross-cultural issues to the benefit of their business