1. Multinational Firms and Global Assets/Income. The differences across MNES is striking. Using a sample of firms such as those listed here, pull from their individual Web pages the proportions of their incomes which are earned outside their country of incorporation.

a. Walt Disney

b. Nestl S.A.

c. Intel http://disney.go.com/ http://www.nestle.com/ http://www.intel.com/

d. Daimler-Benz http://www.daimlerchrysler.de

e. Mitsubishi Motors http://www.mitsubishi.com/

f. Nokia http://www.nokia.com/ g. Royal Dutch/Shell http://www.shell.com/ (Note how Nestl calls itself a "transnational com- pany.") Also note the way in which international busi- ness is now conducted via the internet. Several of the above home pages allow the user to choose the lan- guage of the presentation viewed.