The course intends to demonstrate that decisions affecting the international expansion of the firm are neither obvious nor totally determined by the technological or economic forces generally associated with globalization. This course seeks to illustrate with theoretical articles and detailed case studies that the firm’s international business strategy is a sequential decision-making process operating at the country, industry, corporate, business, and subsidiary levels of analysis. Firms manage knowledge accumulation and transfer as they grow international through a mixture of planning and trial-and-error. This course would allow students to experience in the classroom the transcendental decisions that multinational firms face in the course of conducting business across borders.