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

Harvard Business Review

During the 2000s, however, a worrisome trend appeared. economy, these trends are alarming. For the last 20 years, however, these companies have been expanding most of their activities more rapidly abroad than at home, and this trend accelerated in the 2000s. economy is smaller by most measures. A Vital Contribution.

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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. First, these trends weakened the connections between companies and their communities. Competitiveness Project.