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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. private-sector research and development. private sector rose in the 1990s, but then fell in the 2000s. of all U.S.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. The collaboration between Siemens and Central Piedmont Community College, aimed at skill development, is one example. Competitiveness Project.