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

Harvard Business Review

GDP while undertaking 40.9% These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4% private-sector jobs and produced 28.7% capital investment, shipping 71.1%

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18 of the Top 20 Tech Companies Are in the Western U.S. and Eastern China. Can Anywhere Else Catch Up?

Harvard Business Review

From 2010 to 2017, the market cap of GAFAM companies increased by $2.6 A 2014 study by the European Centre for International Political Economy discovered that recently enacted or proposed barriers could reduce GDP modestly in India (0.1%) and more substantially in other markets, such as the EU (0.4%) and Vietnam (1.7%).

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People Are Angry About Globalization. Here’s What to Do About It.

Harvard Business Review

personal consumption expenditures in 2010 and that over half of that amount actually went to U.S. newspapers, the share of foreign stories has declined from 27% in 1987 to 11% in 2010. But in the words of survey coauthor Michael Porter , many were “offended by the discussion saying that someone is getting paid too much.”