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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

has become a Mecca for international scientists, engineers and business students — particularly those undertaking graduate studies. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies. Let's examine the reasons why America possesses this important advantage: 1.

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India Remakes Global Innovation

Harvard Business Review

In 2008, Dr Reddy's acquired Chirotech, Dow Chemical's R&D unit, for $32 million, and in April 2011 relocated it to a new 33,000 sq. The Indian firms we studied promote diversity in their R&D management by hiring external talent to build and oversee their global innovation network. facility in Cambridge Science Park. and the U.K.

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The Industries Plagued by the Most Uncertainty

Harvard Business Review

For example, a wide variety of clean technologies (including wind, solar, and hydrogen) are vying to power vehicles and cities at the same time that a wide variety of medical technologies (chemical, biotechnological, genomic, and robotic) are being developed to treat diseases. Consider the 2×2 matrix below.