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

Harvard Business Review

private-sector research and development. They include a weak K-12 education system; inadequate worker skills; a shortage of workers with backgrounds in science, technology, engineering and mathematics; restrictions on skilled immigrants; the crumbling infrastructure and a high corporate tax rate. In 2009, they accounted for 24.4%

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How Companies Can Help Rebuild America’s Common Resources

Harvard Business Review

Every company benefits from an educated populace. A new generation of firms established foundations, and firms also invested in higher education in particular directly. Alfred Sloan and other business leaders worked on the Council on Financial Aid to education to encourage firms to give to universities. Competitiveness Project.