September 10, 2012
The United States now ranks 7th in overall global competitiveness among 144 national economies studied by the WEF, a drop from fourth place in the last assessment
Emerging Issues
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August 28, 2012
The race for research and development spending is growing closer.
July 27, 2012
Regulation is a double-edged sword. In a free market, standards can play a positive role guarding competition, safety, security and other matters.
July 26, 2012
The fate of Europe has a significant impact on how readily some U.S. businesses will be able to secure credit now and in the future.
July 24, 2012
Europe's economic situation will effect the US, but how?
June 15, 2012
Success on Twitter, team innovation, and what college is really about are driving the debate this week.
April 3, 2012
Bill Davidow has a fascinating article out in The Atlantic talking about "super-connectivity," or how our entire world is more inter-related than ever before.
March 22, 2012
Vladimir Putin is once again the leader of Russia. Why does this matter to American business? For one thing, Putin's election comes amidst stirrings of political change from the country's rising middle class.
February 22, 2012
The famed management guru Tom Peters once said, "Do what you do best and outsource the rest." Thanks to low costs abroad, many firms have chosen to outsource much of their manufacturing capacity over the past few decades.
February 3, 2012
Adam Smith once remarked that "on the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity." That could equally describe where Indonesia is today -- a thriving, vibrant democracy marked by tremendous economic growth and even greater potential, but which is haunted by a