Government

This package begins with "What the West Gets Wrong About China," by Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, which discusses three fundamental misconceptions:...

Many people have wrongly assumed that political freedom would follow new economic freedoms in China and that its economic growth would have to be built...

As the world reckons with the impact of powerful new AI systems, governments are jostling to lead the regulatory charge — and shape how this technology will grow.

Retreat isn't just inadvisable; it's dangerous.

The news media and the government are entwined in a vicious circle of mutual manipulation, mythmaking, and self-interest. Journalists need crises to dramatize...

For years public concern about technological risk has focused on the misuse of personal data. But as firms embed more and more artificial intelligence...

Organizations are political structures which provide platforms for the expression of individual interests, and which revolve around the accumulation of...

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

Or risk being left behind.

We’re confusing output with impact.

Most business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden...

We need better measures of development.

How businesses and governments can work together to build digital foundations that benefit everyone.

A model assessing their potential impact suggests manufacturers might flood the market with cheap goods, raise prices, or both.

America, a nation once celebrated for its irrepressible optimism, now appears to be obsessed by "declinism"--the idea that something is fundamentally...

It was supposed to be a radical rethinking of capitalism, but it's become a mere accounting tool.

Companies must sometimes team up with governments, NGOs, and even rivals to capture the economic benefits of social progress.

Paradoxically, the enduring competitive advantages in a global economy lie increasingly in local things—knowledge, relationships, and motivation that distant rivals cannot match.

The top team’s annual strategic off-site differs from all other meetings in its potential impact on the company. That’s why it should be designed and managed differently.

No industrialized nation can be an economic island, yet Japan continues to behave like one. When foreign goods and services--such as food, airline tickets,...