Operating in an international rather than domestic arena offers managers

access to new markets and new resources, opens up new sources of
knowledge and capabilities, and broadens the strategic moves the company

may make in response to rivals. However, firms with operations in
several nations face greater strategic and organizational challenges
than their domestic counterparts. D595 examines these management
challenges and explores techniques that can be used to meet them. It
adopts the transnational model of international management and focuses
on the strategic, organizational, and human resource tools that can be
used to make international operations key contributors to a firm's
strategic objectives.