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Your CEO completely trusts your judgment. She is asking you to advise her on an important and sensitive decision she must make, and she is counting on your wise advice. In the next week she will present a plan to the Board of Directors, explaining why the company should or should not distribute its product within a country controlled by a government that is precariously controlled by a dictator that your host government supports. The dictator has also been supportive of your company’s best interests, and seeks for you to develop promising new products in his country’s region. 

Your CEO is perplexed. On the one hand, if your company does business with this dictatorship it runs the risk of forfeiting its assets if the dictator is overthrown . On the other hand, the opportunity to market promising products in this foreign country would enable your company to greatly profit from the experience.

1. What are the risks associated with choosing not to market your products in this dictatorship?
2. What are the risks of choosing to market your products in this dictatorship?
3. What would you advise your CEO to do? How would you advise her to present this decision to the Board of Directors?