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, and also generates tremendous opportunities and challenges to individuals, companies, and governments. This course focuses on managing the challenges associated with devising strategies, building organizational capabilities, and governing the operations of the enterprises whose activities stretch across national boundaries. What makes the study of multinational enterprise unique? How does it differ and relate to conventional management and organization studies? One of the most striking characteristics of multinational enterprises (MNEs) is having subsidiaries or agents simultaneously operating in various countries with distinct economic, social, and political context. Global managers then have to deal with the diversity, dynamics, and inter-dependency arising from both external and internal environments facing MNEs. Accordingly, in addition to the traditional approach of studying the various global economic forces and international institutions, this course puts more emphasis on examining the behaviors and decision-making process of various global managers, be it CEO, global business manager, country manager, or functional manager, in dealing with complex context.