Dyned录音原稿之FIB Module1精品管理文档.pdfVIP

Course: FunctioningIn Business Course: FunctioningIn Business CCoouurrssee::FFuunnccttiioonniinnggIInnBBuussiinneessss Module 1 Module 1 MMoodduullee11 Introduction PresentationVideoInteractive Listening Part1 This is the story of an important business trip. It begins with 2 companies Yamashita Ltd and Advanced Technologies. The main characters of the story are Charles Blakeand MikeEpstein. My name is Charles Blake; I work for aJapanese company,Yamashita Ltd. Ourhead office is in Tokyo, Japan. We manufacture industrial equipment and robots. At this time, 100%of our sales of industrial robots areinJapan. Hi, I’mMike Epstein, Iwork forAdvancedTechnologies, anAmerican company. Our head office is in San Francisco, California. We manufacture electronic components and office computers. 80% of our sales are in the U.S. and 20% are overseas and in Canada. Part2 Igraduated from Columbia Universityin1971. Istudied Internationalrelations and a little Japanese. After graduation I worked for a small import-export company in New York. I was with their sales fore for about five years. Then in 1976 I began to work for Yamashita, a Japanese company. I’m currently with their head office in Tokyo. My responsibility is to North America. I live in Tokyo and I marry 2 Japanese women. We have a child, a son. I enjoy playing golf and tennis, but I’m afraidIdon’thave alot of spare time. I graduated from Stanford University in 1973. I studied electrical engineering. After graduate, I went to work for acompany in San Francisco for 2 years. Then in 1976Iwent back toschool and Igot my MBA. In1978Iwent to work forAdvanced Technologies, Inc. I’m now a system engineer; it’s my responsibility to help cut the production costs for anew factory that is