Global Business And

Emerging Markets
(GBEM)
Quiz 02
November 5, 2021 6.30 PM to 7.40 PM Class
There are two questions in this quiz. You 09
will begin to write the answers online in a 18301940
few minutes and while in class.

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Submission will be at the end of the class
to the faculty’s BIM mail. You will get
about 60 minutes to write the quiz. You
can complete the task earlier
 Quiz 02 Class 09
What you need to be familiar with

1 Demography, per capita or per household income levels and

income aspirations drive economic activities across the globe.
2 Human capital, technology, the aggregate power of brands
and access to financial capital are the enablers.
3 We will safely assume that governments have a stake in the
above.
4 Firms from the emerging markets and the developed
economies then chart their strategies.
 Quiz 02 Class 09
What you need to be familiar with

5 Strategy is a plan of action to achieve a goal or an aim. This is

usually long-term.
6 Earnings of the firm, product-driven profit, revenue or sales,
and market share are usually the long-term goals.
7 All-in cost, pricing, branding, technology, product and
process improvement, automation, product and service
quality, reliability, availability, trust, service and
responsiveness, and investment are usually the means.
 Quiz 02 Class 09
What you need to be familiar with

8 Planned losses and acceptance of unplanned losses are

common.
9 Lobbying and litigating are common.
10 Use of accredited diplomats and former heads of government
and state is also common.
 What you need to be familiar with

We (will) work for governments, businesses, banks and asset

managers of both developed economies and emerging markets.

Human capital progression

Technology progression, patents and lifecycles
Life and lifecycle of brands
The lowering and flattening of cost curves
Payback period approach and residual utility and/or value
Cost of capital advantage of developed economies
Cost of capital advantage of transnational companies
 What you need to be familiar with

Life expectancy and fertility

Net borrowers and net savers of developed economies
Net borrowers and net savers of emerging markets
Households, businesses and government(s) compete for savings
Diversification of application of savings
Allocation of savings
 What you need to be familiar with

Governments borrow; they issue Treasury bonds

Governments do not issue equity!

Companies borrow; they issue bonds

Companies permit ownership; they issue equity
 What you need to think about 01

Joint venture investments that involve (1) a dominant shareholder

from a developed economy and (2) a dominant shareholder from
an emerging market

Availability of human capital for large-scale fulltime employment

The status of development of upstream partners in the supply

chain
We are managers
 What you need to think about 02

The global automotive industry

The global pharmaceutical industry

The global education technology (EdTech) industry

The global financial technology (FinTech) industry

We are managers
The Future
Of The
World’s
Workforce

We are
managers
 The Future
Of The
World’s
Workforce
There are five
aggregations:

World
Developed economies
China
We are
Emerging markets managers
Others
 Quiz 02 Class 09 Questions 01 & 02

1 Please apply the principles of human capital, savings and

financial capital. Please suggest how emerging market
economies could consider deepening and expanding “their
education and knowledge economy”.

2 Please apply the principles of human capital, all-in costs and

cost curves. Please suggest how India could emerge as a hub
for the global education technology (EdTech) industry.