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Is America Losing Its Edge in Clean-Energy Tech?

Harvard Business Review

companies are outperforming their overseas counterparts: Clean-energy technologies. In just the past few years, there has been a global boom in the wind and solar industries, with wind power's generating capacity expanding dramatically and companies competing to offer free solar panels to households.

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The Businesses That Platforms Are Actually Disrupting

Harvard Business Review

Powered by online technologies, they are sweeping across the economic landscape, striking down companies large and small. Uber’s global assault on the taxi industry is well known. But they also face significant risk from startups that use new technologies to operate more-powerful, more-efficient, and more-scalable platforms.

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How the U.S., the EU, and Japan Are Trying to Rein in China’s State Capitalism

Harvard Business Review

They are also discussing ways to prevent China from forcing Western companies to transfer technology to Chinese firms. Forced technology transfers and theft. Now let’s turn to the forced transfers or theft of digital technologies. Although the U.S., ” These subsidies are a major problem. In May, the U.S.,