Week 2 individual PPTS

Week 2: MNC Sections I and II (TOYOTA)

Multi-National Corporation (MNC) (Toyota)

PROFESSOR Instructions

Complete an assessment of the  political system and economic system of both the  home and host country of your MNC. 

· Compare and contrast how your MNC operates in the home and a host (pick one) country. 

· Indicate also, where your countries rank with HDI (Human Development Index), Freedom Index, Doing Business Index, and other indexes you deem appropriate.   

Compare and contrast the  legal systems of the  MNC's country of origin (home) and host country. 

· Variables to consider include corruption, intellectual property, and product safety & liability, and ethics.

· Two websites of interest here are the FREEDOM INDEX ( https://www.heritage.org/index/ranking  (Links to an external site.) ) and the HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INDEX ( http://hdr.undp.org/en/countries  (Links to an external site.) )

· Given that your MNC has only one home country (the country in which your MNC is headquartered), look at the websites and find your home country and inform us about it. Second, pick one host country (a country that your MNC does business in but is not the home headquarters of your MNC) and examine this as well with the websites above.

· What are the similarities, what are the differences between your home and host country? What other websites do you think are good to use for this discussion topic?

Two slides: Complete an assessment of the  political system and economic system of both the  home (JAPAN) and host country (USA) of your MNC(TOYOTA). 

· Compare and contrast how your MNC operates in the home and a host (pick one) country. 

· Indicate also, where your countries rank with HDI (Human Development Index), Freedom Index, Doing Business Index, and other indexes you deem appropriate.   

Two slides: Compare and contrast the  legal systems of the  MNC's country of origin (home: JAPAN) and host country: USA). 

· Variables to consider include corruption, intellectual property, and product safety & liability, and ethics.

References: one or more slides

Notes: You can also use some useful info from section I and please do follow the Criteria below.

Section	Points	Description
Section I	20	Introduce your MNC. Provide some sound financial indicators from company annual reports or use secondary sources to provide some financial background (yearly revenues, profits, dividends, etc). Complete an assessment of the political system and economic system of both the home and host country of your MNC. Compare and contrast how your MNC operates in the home and a host (pick one) country. Indicate also, where your countries rank with HDI (Human Development Index), Freedom Index, Doing Business Index, and other indexes you deem appropriate.
Section II	20	Compare and contrast the legal systems of the MNC's country of origin (home: Japan) and host country: USA). Variables to consider include corruption, intellectual property, and product safety & liability, and ethics.

Notes:

1. if needed used some information from SECTION I

2. Section II is main assignments

3. Please do make PPTX with speaking notes

4. Write conclusion as well