The past decades have witnessed the fast and growing trend of globalization in our modern societies. Globalization brings forth profound influences on ways of living and thought, on individuals, companies, and governments. This course focuses on the managerial challenges associated with developing strategies and managing the operations of the companies whose activities stretch across national boundaries. In particular, three levels of globalization issues are focused in this course: (1) Industry Globalization: drivers and dynamics of globalization of industry and competition; (2) Firm Globalization: building, applying, extending and sustaining firm-specific capabilities; tapping into and leveraging location-specific resources (resource configuration); and, (3) Management Globalization: integrating and coordinating internationally dispersed activities and resources within and among firms.