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The 4 Types of Small Businesses, and Why Each One Matters

Harvard Business Review

These businesses are often focused on growth, domestically or through exports, and operate with a higher level of management sophistication than Main Street firms. For example, a “mom and pop” Main Street shop has different financing needs than a high‐tech startup. from offshore.

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

Harvard Business Review

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. Multinationals' shares of employment, capital investment, and output in the U.S. But to spark that growth, 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. A second approach uses innovative funding models and new sources of capital to solve some of society’s most difficult problems. Competitiveness Project.