CUBA

MGT 4150 Global Strategy

Course Description

This course is designed to understand how a company evolves to be a multinational corporation (MNC) by way of international expansion through diversification, acquisition, vertical integration, and alliance formation and how a MNC manages its diversified subsidiary network across the world. Each session is led by case discussion.

Tentative Course Schedule

Session	Topic
1	Introduction
2	Internationalization Decision & Foreign Entry Mode Choice I
	Case: Panda Furniture (A)
3	Internationalization Decision & Foreign Entry Mode Choice II
	Case: Nelson International in Mexico
4	Market Expansion through Internationalization
	Case: Samsung in China: The introductory of colour TV
5	Joint Ventures I: Partner Selection
	Case: Nora-Sakari: A Proposed Joint Venture in Malaysia
6	Joint Ventures II: Managing Partnership
	Case: Toppan Moore
7	Group presentation I
8	Managing Cultural Differences I
	Case: Go slowworkers
9	Managing Cultural Differences II
	Case: Yutaka Nakamura (to be distributed)
10	Competitive straetgy in emerging economies I
	Case: CITI Group in China and WTO
11	Competitive straetgy in emerging economies II
	Case: Eli Lilly in India
12	Group presentation II