This document presents a case study on the international expansion of Starbucks. It provides a brief history of Starbucks, noting that it was founded in 1971 in Seattle and initially only sold high-quality coffee beans. By the late 1980s and early 1990s, Starbucks had begun rapidly expanding across the United States. Seeing saturation in the US market, Starbucks began expanding internationally in the 1990s, opening locations first in Japan in 1996 and later in the UK, Latin America, South America, Russia, and Vietnam. The document then outlines several problems and questions regarding Starbucks' management of controllable and uncontrollable elements, risks, strategy criticism, improving profitability in markets like Japan, factors influencing international expansion, overcoming obstacles in markets like Italy