National competitiveness

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

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

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

The United States is on a glide path to fiscal disaster, with experts projecting that the federal government will take in far less money than it spends--indefinitely....

Pulling up the drawbridge has never been an option.

Making college less affordable means America’s employers will find it even harder to hire great talent.

It's more global, more urban, and more winner-take-all.

And why they might not be enough.

Across the United States, you can hear calls for us to revitalize our national competitiveness. But wait—who is “us”? Is it IBM, Motorola, Whirlpool, and General Motors? Or is it Sony, Thomson, Philips, and Honda? Consider two successful corporations: Corporation A is headquartered north of New York City. Most of its top managers are citizens […]

A global analysis.

For more than ten years, American manufacturers have been trying to improve productivity--and thereby enhance their international competitiveness--through...

How to defend and expand its advanced industries.

Based on the research of the Fletcher School at Tufts University's Institute for Business in the Global Context and Planet eBiz.

The more you use computers at work, the higher your pay.

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

A country’s competitiveness, like a company’s, is not primarily a matter of sales: it is a matter of incomes, and incomes earned, not borrowed. To be competitive means to raise incomes as rapidly as competitors do and to make the investments necessary to keep up competitively in the future. From this perspective, U.S. competitiveness is […]

Governments around the world are increasingly intervening in the private sector through industrial policies designed to help domestic sectors reach goals...

Trust and stability are essential for a strong economy.

It’s the only way to fix the economy.

A location decision is, in many respects, a referendum on a nation's competitiveness. When a company decides, say, to build a new plant in China rather...