MARK 407 Asian Business Environment

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MARK 407Asian Business Environment

• Tim Beal28 February 2008

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Today

• Who we are
• Course outline, initial handouts and coursepage
• 14.10 gtgtCharlotte Clements
• Commerce Library introduction to information
  sourcing and storage (EndNote)
• If time, return here to discuss course in more
  detail

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Who we are

• Tim Beal
• The class

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Initial handouts

• To be discussed next week
• Internet information resources
• Reference
• Parag Khanna Waving Goodbye to Hegemony
• The Economist The World in Figures
• Reference
• Tim Beal China, India and the New Asian
  Ascendancy
• 1 Perspectives on the past, intimations of the
  future
• 2 China and India wresting independence,
  building powerful economies
• Goldman Sachs on the BRICs
• Dreaming with BRICs (2003)
• BRICs and Beyond (2007) intro

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Coursepage

• url on course outline
• MARK407 coursepage

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Why session(s) with Charlotte?

• Centrality of information in business/work and
  academic study
• Specific to this course, with general application
• Postgraduate courses are about learning general
  research skills, as well as the specific topic

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Dont take my word for it

• Who said this, when, and what does it mean?

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Sun Zi

• C 400 BCE
• Know yourself, know your enemy, a hundred
  battles, a hundred victories

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Charlotte 1 2

• Today
• Introduction to information sourcing
• Storing and referencing using EndNote
• 3 April
• Utilising information for research projects