Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to set forth a less-costly, more flexible approach to teaching the analysis of international business development opportunities.

Design/methodology/approach

The approach capitalizes upon the high-quality business condition metrics, which are necessary to inform the development decision, that have recently become freely-available through a set of institutions that gather and distribute these metrics.

Findings

Critical thinking skills in this area are developed here not just by understanding the tools of analysis but also by having participated in a series of active classroom activities focused upon private investment decisions in a set of disparate countries.

Practical implications

This approach develops rising business professionals with refined critical thinking skills who will be able to immediately contribute to international business development decision-making.

Social implications

Opportunities for students to learn these critical thinking skills can be far more available because the traditional method by which these skills have been taught has been by finding a partner business with the resources to pay for such data. In exchange for allowing students to use the data experientially the partner firm benefits from the work product of the students who study the international business development project at the firm’s offices.

Originality/value

The approach set forth provides an accessible alternate for those on-campus students and distance-learning students who do not need to have the flexibility to travel to the site of a business partner – where most of this learning has heretofore been arranged.

中文翻译：

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使用当前业务指标教授国际业务发展

目的

本文的目的是提出一种成本更低，更灵活的方法来教授国际业务发展机会的分析。

设计/方法/方法

该方法利用了高质量的业务条件度量标准，这些信息是制定开发决策所必需的，这些度量标准最近可以通过收集和分发这些度量标准的一组机构免费获得。

发现

在此领域中，批判性思维技能的发展不仅是通过了解分析工具，而且还参加了一系列活跃的课堂活动，这些活动侧重于一组不同国家的私人投资决策。

实际影响

这种方法培养了具有完善的批判性思维技能的新兴业务专业人员，他们将能够立即为国际业务发展决策做出贡献。

社会影响

学生学习这些批判性思维技能的机会可能更多，因为传授这些技能的传统方法是通过寻找有能力支付此类数据的合作伙伴企业。作为交换条件，让合作伙伴公司受益于在公司办公室学习国际业务发展项目的学生的工作成果，这是合伙公司所能从中受益的。

创意/价值

所提出的方法为那些不需要灵活地前往业务合作伙伴所在地的校内学生和远程学习学生提供了一种可访问的替代方法-迄今为止，大多数学习都是在该地点进行的。