BUSN 427 GLOBAL ISSUES IN BUSINESS DeVry University Global Business Group E Project: Gap‚ Inc. going to Peru Prepared by: February 20‚ 2011 Table of Contents ------------------------------------------------- Module Page I. Cover Page 1 II. Table of Contents 2 III. Executive Summary 3 Module 1: IDENTIFYING GLOBAL BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES 4-7 Module 2: ANALYZING INTERNATIONAL COMPETITORS 8-10 Module 3: ASSESSING THE ECONOMIC-GEOGRAPHIC ENVIRONMENT 11-13 Module 4:
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The Camesia gas pipeline‚ which runs from the amazon‚ over the Andes‚ to the pacific coast has been raising a lot controversy in the past decade with its destruction of the Peru rainforest. It has ruptured 4 times with at least three major spills in the first 18 months since it was constructed in 2004. With 22 indigenous communities living in a state reserve in isolation‚ a contractor by way of helicopter has made contact with these isolated communities and is pressuring them to abandon their ancestral
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Peru is best known as the heart of the Inca empire‚ but it was home to many diverse indigenous cultures long before the Incas arrived. Although there is evidence of human habitation in Peru as long ago as the eighth millennium BC ‚ there is little evidence of organized village life until about 2500 BC. It was at about this time that climatic changes in the coastal regions prompted Peru’s early inhabitants to move toward the more fertile interior river valleys. For the next 1500 years‚ Peruvian civilization
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which their life revolves around. The Quechua are an extremely large indigenous group of the Andean region of South America‚ with the population of almost eleven million people which are mostly present in the following six countries: Colombia‚ Ecuador‚ Peru‚ Bolivia‚ Chile‚ and Argentina. The Quechua practice the Roman Catholic religion and speak Spanish and other Quechua languages. It is well known that indigenous groups have a nexus‚ in which their lifestyle resolves around almost entirely and with
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trade hub‚ a station for testing new crops‚ a women’s retreat or a city devoted to the coronation of kings‚ among many examples. Machu Picchu’s "Discovery" by Hiram Bingham In the summer of 1911 the American archaeologist Hiram Bingham arrived in Peru with a small team of explorers hoping to find Vilcabamba‚ the last Inca stronghold to fall to the Spanish. Traveling on foot and by mule‚ Bingham and his team made their way from Cuzco into the Urubamba Valley‚ where a local farmer told them of some
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The differences between the two countries include Peru having a more tropical climate‚ leading them to have more healthy and tropical fruits and crops for vegetables than America‚ and Peru lined on the coast of South America‚ leading them to have more seafood than America. The similarities between the two countries include both countries being hospitable during eating
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listen to the topical versions of accounts from that time period‚ they reveal a one sided account of events. However‚ Restall’s in depth look at the colonization of Latin America‚ specifically Mexico‚ shows a different side of the story. In Mexico and Peru‚ the Iberian advantage was less about God and more about superior military technology. The indigenous peoples had not been exposed to the caliber of weapons the Iberians brought with them when they came to Latin America. As a result the Indigenous
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from western Venezuela to Northern Chile and Argentina‚ and includes portions of Columbia‚ Ecuador‚ Peru and Bolivia. The focus country will here will be Peru‚ a developing country in Latin America. This country is special because it became the latest developing country to enact a domestic climate change initiative with a goal of lowering carbon emissions in its fast growing economy (Stauffer). Peru has had a tumultuous history in the past 50 years‚ with anything from treason to reforms to coups to
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The representation of Afro-Peruvians in national television and its social impacts Peruvian media is believed to be the reflection of Peruvian society. However‚ the context in which media content is generated not always respond to an accurate representation of its cultural diversity‚ since many of the contents portray images of cultural minorities (indigenous and Afro-Peruvian) that contribute to the reproduction of negative stereotypes‚ having an impact on society. The current research paper aims
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The Nasca is an ancient civilization of people located in the Nasca region on the southern coast of Peru‚ living between approximately 1 and 750 AD. Many scholars believe the Nasca originated out of the Paracas culture and were most likely a group of small rural villages that were situated near each other. The Nasca appeared to be self-sufficient and based much of their life on agriculture‚ especially the cultivating of corn. The villages had distinctive art‚ especially multicolored pottery and
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