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Going "Global" and Being "Global": To be global or not to be global—is that one question? Learning Objectives - Understand how globalization and its changing wave impact product markets, business models, companies and management—and why such impact has been mounting and changing over time.
- Unscramble "global" and decode expressions such as "international," "multinational," "transnational," etc.
- Identify levels of analysis in geography (world / region / country / site) and in business (industry / company / local unit).
- Delineate the concepts and specificities of "global strategy" and the relevance of time with the separate consideration of "internationalization strategy."
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The Advantage of Internationalization: Why go "against a sea of troubles"? Learning Objectives - Analyze how internationalization enables companies to increase their value propositions and understand the nature of such benefits.
- Learn how to evaluate potential internationalization strategies.
- Anticipate the organizational and individual challenges of internationalization.
| CEMEX |
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Exploiting Home-Based Advantage: Is it easier when you have a paragon at home? Learning Objectives - Analyze how internationalization enables companies to exploit home-based advantage and appreciate the nature of such advantage.
- Identify when a country or a cluster is the optimal place in the world for a given business or industry.
- Design an internationalization strategy based on home-based advantage.
| IKEA |
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Augmenting Home-Based Advantage: When do foreign CATs improve home RATs? Learning Objectives - Analyze how internationalization enables firms to enhance their home-based advantage.
- Understand the resource-based view to explain internationalization.
- Apply Lessard's "RATs test" and "CATs test" to identify and evaluate internationalization strategies.
- Analyze the desirability and difficulty of building and exploiting a "virtual diamond".
| Shimano |
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Building Metanational Advantage: To be national or not to be national—is that the question? Learning Objectives - Understand how companies can build global advantage by melding knowledge that is dispersed around the world.
- Appreciate the different nature of metanational advantage relative to straight or augmented home-base advantage—especially in the case of "global startups".
- Learn the organizational capabilities to build metanational advantage and the significant challenges posed by such endeavor.
| Renault-Nissan |
| Part II: Relating Strategy and Organization |
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Between a Global Business and a Global Company: Exporter or multinational—is that an option? Learning Objectives - Recognize how globalization and information and communication technologies have opened up the possibilities for global business so that even a local company must contemplate a global strategy.
- Analyze different global business models (such as pure exporter, global business network, international alliance, or multinational company).
- Consider the specific challenges of "going global" from an emergent market—and the specific challenges for developed market multinationals to compete with emerging market multinationals.
| Haier |
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Global Integration and National Responsiveness: Global and local—is that an imperative? Learning Objectives - Learn about the "Integration/Responsiveness" framework and the infamous "Think Global, Act Local." Distinguish between "integration" and "aggregation."
- Understand how global integration impacts performance.
- Understand how local rootedness and local adaptation impact performance.
- Realize the managerial and organizational challenges posed by global integration and by national responsiveness.
| IBM in Canada |
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Local Adaptation: Can you weld uniformity in different places? Learning Objectives - Realize how the local environment shapes business and organizational choices.
- Appreciate the complexity of local adaptation and how it is not just about products, prices or business models but also about organization.
- Learn about traditional "localization" and how it has changed with globalization.
- Understand the roles of local managers and of expatriates in local adaptation.
| Lincoln |
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Global Strategy and Knowledge Management: How do you spread it all over the world? Learning Objectives - Understand the growth and challenges of sharing "best-practices" and of "global knowledge management" in multinational companies.
- Learn about contemporary strategies and tools for knowledge management in multinational companies while realizing the pros and cons of technology-mediated communication.
- Analyze the relationship between knowledge management and global strategy.
| Danone |
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Global Delivery: Why bother? Learning Objectives - Appreciate why there are relatively few multinationals in services.
- Realize the peculiarities of global strategy and organization for services or solution providers (in particular, the differences between "global supply chains" and "global delivery chains").
- Understand the emergence and impact of "global customers".
- Consider the specific challenges and implications of "going global" from an emergent market as a solutions provider.
| Infosys |
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Global Innovation: Local Innovation—seriously? Learning Objectives - Understand why R&D and innovation has been mostly a local process, namely at home, even in the largest globally dispersed companies—and why this is changing rapidly in several businesses.
- Recognize the "supply-side" and the "demand-side" of innovations and the differentiated roles of country units in innovation processes in a multinational company.
- Analyze the particular value and costs of "global innovation" for incremental innovations and for breakthrough innovations.
- Understand the strategic value of innovations for the "bottom-of-the-pyramid".
| GE Healthcare |
