National competitiveness

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Graduates of Harvard Business School overwhelmingly favor foreign over U.S. locations for new investment. Data from the International Finance Corporation...

George Gilder, in the March-April 1988 HBR, attacked MIT's Charles Ferguson for believing that many, small, entrepreneurial companies will do more for...

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The competitiveness debate that today focuses on America’s industrial performance will soon confront something even more that fundamental: money. The rise of Japanese financial power and the contradictions of U.S. economic policy are weakening the competitive position of the U.S. financial services industry—one of the few sectors where the United States still regards itself as […]

To keep competition alive, we need new anti-trust laws.

Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting...

In recent years, major industries in the United States have been deregulated--for example, telecommunications, airlines, and banking--and now the winds...

According to data from 71 countries.

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New technologies are disrupting the industry.

Open innovation platforms are making it easier.

They don’t have as much impact as either critics or advocates believe.

A four-year, ten-nation study of the patterns of competitive success in leading countries concludes that companies achieve competitive advantage through...

A survey of economists projects that the economic and technological gaps between the countries will continue to narrow.

Public expectations with regard to big-business enterprise are rising sharply, and business leaders must prepare themselves to meet this challenge.

Older societies innovate more, out of necessity.

Since the beginning of this year, the climate surrounding U.S.-Japan relations has undergone a tragic and rapid deterioration. Never have the economic interests of Japan and the United States been more intertwined or the need for a global partnership between our two countries been more obvious. Yet rancor and rhetoric have nearly preempted reasoned discussion […]

After taking office, South Africa's new president, Nelson Mandela, must decide whether to dismantle or support Armscor, South Africa's state-owned arms...

When Covid-19 hit the US in 2020, the grocery retail industry underwent a greatly accelerated digital transformation as consumers' habits changed drastically...

After decades of poor economic performance, the Irish government adopted major changes in economic policy in 1987. By the end of the 1990s, Ireland's...

How nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David...

China is one of the most popular investment destinations in the world. Throughout much of the 1990s, China accounted for 50% of foreign direct investment...

Manufacturing's central role in global innovation... Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years--even decades--in response to intensifying...

For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit,...

In February 2013, the G-20 finance ministers met in Moscow, Russia to discuss the rising anxieties over a potential international currency war. It was...

Colombia, once the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity...

The theory of competitive advantage is one of the most widely accepted economic principles among economists. The theory, as well as substantial historical...

Wang's Fortune Tea, marketed as Wanglaoji in mainland China and considered to be the founder of Chinese herbal tea, grew from a strong regional brand...

Provides an overview of the wide variety of organizations other than firms, government ministries and regulatory agencies, and universities that may have...

Le Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique S.A. (CSEM)--the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology--was a major nonprofit research...

The World Trade Organization and NAFTA are reviewing the sweetener system and governmental sugar programs and their impact on world trade. What position...

Acoplasticos was established in 1961 as a lobbying group for Colombia's major plastics manufacturing companies. In the early 1980s, the organization shifted...

Supplement to case IN1271. The cases describe the development, worldwide launch, and subsequent marketing of a new pharmaceutical product which, although...

The cases describe the development, worldwide launch, and subsequent marketing of a new pharmaceutical product which, although it represented only a slight...

The case examines Málaga's evolution and its positioning as a smart city. It describes various strategic plans followed by the city, its strengths and...

The Indian software industry, growing at more than 50% per annum and largely dependent on exports of services and products, is one of the few industries...

And PayPal, Square, and other services don’t go far enough.

Graduates of Harvard Business School overwhelmingly favor foreign over U.S. locations for new investment. Data from the International Finance Corporation...

After taking office, South Africa's new president, Nelson Mandela, must decide whether to dismantle or support Armscor, South Africa's state-owned arms...

George Gilder, in the March-April 1988 HBR, attacked MIT's Charles Ferguson for believing that many, small, entrepreneurial companies will do more for...

When Covid-19 hit the US in 2020, the grocery retail industry underwent a greatly accelerated digital transformation as consumers' habits changed drastically...

Harvard Business Review publishes new and authoritative ideas for improving the practice of management. Written by leading business thinkers and executives,...

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As war returns to Europe, General Sir Richard Barrons’ warning about how technology is transforming conflict is more prescient than ever.

The CEO of Carbonite tells his story.

If you thought Brexit was bad…