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Why American Management Rules the World

Harvard Business Review

in some of the other areas of management we examined, such as careful monitoring, lean production, and sensible targets. standards, they showed the fastest improvement since 2006 of any country we have looked at. Other countries equal or better the U.S. Furthermore, although Chinese management practices are well below U.S.

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How Economists Got Income Inequality Wrong

Harvard Business Review

For example, in 2006, when Ford opened a plant in Chongqing, China, where wages were a fraction of the German level, a spokesman said it was "practically identical to one of its most advanced factories" in Germany. Of course not. They had no idea how to. Today, the textbook economist might counter, robots can be substituted for workers.