in the process of applying for a job as a consultant. The consultant firm that you are applying for specializes in international business.

You are invited for a job interview and face four of the partners.

Each partner has a question for you. What they are looking for is that you demonstrate understanding in your replies. These partners are experts themselves and are very familiar with international business textbooks. They are not impressed if you simply regurgitate information from a book.

The four partners have the following four questions for you:

1. If you had to assess the culture of a location that a client company is thinking about expanding to. How would you do, and why?

2. If you had to advice a client company for a potential country to expand into, and ceteris paribus, what would you recommend in terms of the role of capitalism?