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Can the U.S. Become a Base for Serving the Global Economy?

Harvard Business Review

These concerns can be heard in many places: the sobering survey by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin in HBR's special March issue on U.S. If this goal is not achieved, those who will ultimately suffer most from a less competitive United States will be its workers and their families. competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S.

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

But these trends also had more negative consequences, as Jan Rivkin and Michael Porter have argued in their work as co-chairs of Harvard Business School’s U.S. The consortium provides funding and other resources to maintain a staff and dedicated backbone support that focuses exclusively on the goals of the group.