International Business

1. Enter your country in the search box & select Country & Risk Reports from the "All Research" drop-down menu. If no reports for your country come up, skip to #3.
2. Open a recent report and look at the Social section or another that looks useful. What would be good to include in your memo to your boss?
3. Return to main search, enter your country, and choose Country Profiles from the dropdown menu. Download the resulting Country Analysis Report.

1. Go to the "Country Reports" page and find your country. Can you find a relevant report that was published in the past 3 years?
2. Try another search for your country name and another search term such as "business etiquette" or "social customs" or "business culture". You can expand the time limit for this search, but look for more recent information. Can you locate any good articles?

1. Use the search box or the Reports menu to locate a report for your country or industry in each of the following categories: Country & Region Reports, Consumer & Brand Reports, and Industry & Market Reports.
2. What specific data and statistics from these reports might be helpful for your assignments?

1. Locate a Guide for your country.  How current is it?
2. Look at the Business Travel section. Is there any information here that you would want to include in your Cultural Brief?
3. What other type of info in the guide might be useful?

1. Click on the link to your country (listed below the big map). Check out the Culture menu option on the left. What might you include in your Cultural Brief memo to your boss?
2. What other area on this site looks useful?

1. Search for newspaper articles regarding business meals and restaurants in your country.
2. Try to find additional articles about doing business in your country.