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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

Here at Harvard Business School, Dean Nitin Nohria has revamped HBS's MBA curriculum to emphasize practical leadership and global experiences. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies. American companies send their most promising leaders abroad for global leadership assignments.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

The initial breakthrough came in 1987, but the first drug wasn’t approved until 2011. In 2011, he commissioned a report that called for an “innovation policy” rather than an “industrial policy.” The Era of Big Science. Often, that information is considered proprietary.