International Firm- Starbucks and host country Portugal

Discuss and explain the following concepts:

1. Describe the operations that the international firm seeks to perform in a new host country (manufacturing, joint venture, or exporting from the home country) and the competition the firm would face there.
2. Investigate whether the host country has received a loan from the World Bank or the Inter-American Development Bank in the past forty years and describe the circumstances and changes implemented from the loan.
3. Describe the host country's major financial institutions and the strength of its currency versus the U.S. dollar.
4. Express how the firm could utilize hedging tools to mitigate foreign exchange exposure in the host country.
5. Recommend how the firm could leverage the host country's capital markets and successfully invest there.
6. Depict how the host country's governmental policies and/or actions affect possible investment.
7. Communicate how the firm's financial organizational structure would be effectively used in the host country.

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