Cross-border management: motivations and mentalities -- Responding to conflicting demands: the environmental challenge -- Building strategic capabilities: the competitive challenge -- Managing across boundaries: the collaborative challenge -- Developing coordination and control: the organizational challenge -- Creating and leveraging knowledge: the world wide learning challenge -- Building transnational capabilities: the management challenge -- Preparing for the future: evolution of the transnational.

This text contains Harvard and INSEAD cases with readings on research and thought on the global business environment. It focuses on management's challenge associated with developing strategies, designing organizations and managing operations of companies whose activities cross national boundaries.