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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

America's higher education system is a magnet for talented leaders from all over the world. In 2011, 71% of HBS's new cases were written about foreign companies. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology.

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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. Suzlon recently completed its acquisition of Germany-based REpower Systems, gaining access to cutting-edge expertise in aerodynamics and electronics. facility in Cambridge Science Park.

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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.