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The Political Issues Board Directors Care Most About

Harvard Business Review

Education and immigration policy are also notably absent from directors’ main concerns. If their projections turn out to be right, we should get ready for a bumpy road ahead, with market volatility and negative surprises. Foreign policy and immigration policy are rarely cited as top worries.

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50 Laboratories of Opportunity

Harvard Business Review

could learn from — is to test policy proposals before rolling them out nationally. When problems surface, the policy can be fine-tuned, modified, and re-tested before it is tried out on a wider scale. policy making. One thing that the Chinese do quite well — and that the U.S. But not in U.S.

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The Reason Silicon Valley Beat Out Boston for VC Dominance

Harvard Business Review

In her pioneering research on Silicon Valley’s advantage over Route 128 circa 1990, AnnaLee Saxenian identified some of the major differentiators, from cultural factors to state-level policies. These policy differences fostered the emergence of a less loyal, more footloose talent pool in Silicon Valley.

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Developing Global Leaders Is America's Competitive Advantage

Harvard Business Review

As global companies focus their strategies on developed and emerging markets, they require substantial cadres of leaders capable of operating effectively anywhere in the world. French pharmaceutical company Sanofi recently acquired Boston-based Genzyme to tap into America's intellectual capital in biotechnology.

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You Don’t Have to Be in Silicon Valley to Build the Next Great Internet Company

Harvard Business Review

Or Chipotle, $12 billion market value right now based in Denver. Talent, which is why immigration policy is critically important. In some parts of the startup world there isn’t too much excitement around public policy. Under Armour, athletic-wear company based in Baltimore. I think venture capitalists do play a role.

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What You Might Not Know About the Cuban Economy

Harvard Business Review

There was a spike in the 2000s when Venezuela began to provide petroleum at deeply discounted market prices, and that peaked just before the 2008-09 financial crisis. It is probably the best, most well-trained workforce at the cheapest labor-market price that any international investor could find anywhere in the world.

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Technology Progresses When Business, Government, and Academia Work Together

Harvard Business Review

To understand the nature of the problem, let’s look at how penicillin was brought to market. Profit-driven companies, on the other hand, feel so much pressure to go to market that they often pass on ideas with vast potential. The Valley of Death.