This article focuses on the relationship between parent companies and subsidiaries, and introduces the idea of a possible catalyzing role of the subsidiary in the internationalization process. The qualitative study of a hybrid case of internationalization, in which a subsidiary, through its creativity and autonomy of action, transcends its role and educates its parent company in practices that contribute to the evolution of the latter from an incremental internationalization to the condition of a quasi born-global firm, allows for the hypothesis of the existence of “educative” subsidiaries, able to generate the conditions for rapid and successful internationalization of their parent company.