Review the material in chapter seven on developing and managing offerings. what are the seven steps in the offering development process? what are the key activities in each step? how should a company evaluate new ideas? what are the criteria? what strategies do firms pursue when their products enter the decline stage? go to the discussion forum for unit 4 and engage in a dialogue with your classmates on the above issues and any other perspectives you have on international business. you are expected to make at least three posts to the discussion board during the course of the discussion period.

Which of the following statements regarding the learning curve and economies of scale is accurate? answers: just as diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too large, there is a corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.where diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too large, there is no corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.where diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too small, there is no corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.just as diseconomies of scale are presumed to exist if a firm gets too small, there is a corresponding increase in costs in the learning-curve model as the cumulative volume of production grows.

How has internet access changed and affected globalization from 2003 to 2013? a ten percent increase in internet access has had little effect on globalization. a twenty percent decrease in internet access has had little effect on globalization. a thirty percent increase in internet access has sped up globalization. a fifty percent decrease in internet access has slowed down globalization.

True or false: a fitted model with more predictors will necessarily have a lower training set error than a model with fewer predictors.