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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. American companies and academic institutions possess unique competitive advantages in developing these global leaders.

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Low-Skilled Workers Everywhere Are Getting Squeezed

Harvard Business Review

In 1995, 79% of the value created in the process of manufacturing a German automobile was captured by domestic firms and workers; by 2008, German companies and workers captured only 66%. What is left over is the financial value created by the production process, which is split up between wages paid to workers, and returns to capital.