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Many of the class sessions are each built around a business case study, with the decisions and situations encountered by the featured company as a driver of in-class discussion. Guiding questions for analyzing each of the cases as well as supporting material are provided in the Readings section.

SES # TOPICS CASE DISCUSSION
1

How Local Context Matters

Learning Objectives

  1. What is special about managing a multinational organization
  2. Exploring the local nature of organizations
  3. Preparing for an international management position
 HP Singapore
2

Realizing a Global Performance

Learning Objectives

  1. General management and collective performance
  2. Shaping global performance
 Nissan
3

The Relevance of Organization

Learning Objectives

  1. The role of organization in internationalization and global integration
  2. Path dependence and "administrative heritage" in the multinational company
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4

Global Integration: The Value

Learning Objectives

  1. Interdependencies and complementarities across countries
  2. GI and the knowledge-based view of the MNC
  3. GI at various levels
 SAP
5

Global Integration: The Challenge

Learning Objectives

  1. Coordination and control at a distance
  2. The impact of local re-contextualization
  3. Individual integration and national allegiance
  4. The process of global integration
 TEVA
6

Navigating the Maze of a Globally Integrated Organization

Learning Objectives

  1. The "matrix" and the multidimensional organization
  2. The challenges of managing in a multidimensional organization
 ABB
7

Managing Global Clients

Learning Objectives

  1. Local customers and global customers as organizational dimensions
  2. Gl and the global customer
  3. The emergence and evolution of "global account management"
 Siemens
8

Managing Global Innovation

Learning Objectives

  1. The "knowledge architecture" of an innovation
  2. Globalization and the dispersion of valuable knowledge
  3. Global innovation: melding knowledge across nations
  4. Managing global innovation
 HP Singapore
9

Virtual Teamwork

Learning Objectives

  1. The impact of dispersion and contextual diversity
  2. GI and virtual teamwork
  3. Teamwork as process
  4. Leading a virtual team
 Shield
10

Building the Globally Integrated Company

Learning Objectives

  1. The evolution of a large multinational company
  2. GI initiatives
  3. The extended global leadership team and the specific skills of global leaders
 IBM
11

Creating Metanational Advantage

Learning Objectives

  1. Globally integrating the creation of a new strategy
  2. The metanational innovation process
  3. Mobilizing dispersed knowledge: The critical role of "magnets"
 STM
12

Global Integration Going Forward

Learning Objectives

  1. GI: Common ground, virtual HQ, and a "garage" the size of the world
  2. "Think (and feel) local, act global"
  3. What does GI mean for incumbent multinational companies
  4. What does GI mean for companies from "emerging economies"
  5. What does GI mean for startups
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