National competitiveness

How to defend and expand its advanced industries.

Are you prepared?

Open innovation platforms are making it easier.

A survey of economists projects that the economic and technological gaps between the countries will continue to narrow.

Clearly, I have no choice but to file for French citizenship.

Innovation deserves protection.

Plus: bonus historical trivia about Richard Nixon and the gold standard.

It’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying.

Economists agree: They’re a bad idea.

Why Wall Street is wrong to worry about the impact on earnings per share.

Trust and stability are essential for a strong economy.

If you thought Brexit was bad...

Today, in the public mind at least, unemployment lines in Detroit have replaced the traditional belching smokestack as the symbol of the nation’s economy. Fueled by this grimness of mood, discussions of industrial policy in America have finally lost their innocence. Or perhaps it is fairer to say that the nation itself has lost its […]

It’s an increasingly viable option for companies anxious about sourcing from China.

Information industries are sexy, but they make lousy exporters.

As STEM jobs multiply, dealing with numbers will become more important.

Incoherent U.S. energy and climate policies have cast a pall over the entire economy and are putting U.S. companies at a serious global disadvantage....

Whatever happens in Washington, managers must stop scapegoating health care costs and start managing health care suppliers.

A former U.S. treasury secretary reminds CEOs to focus on the long term.

China is starting to position itself as the reliable superpower.

Colombia, once the fastest growing country in Latin America, continues to struggle with productivity. Both labor productivity and total factor productivity...

Manufacturing's central role in global innovation... Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years--even decades--in response to intensifying...

Le Centre Suisse d'Electronique et de Microtechnique S.A. (CSEM)--the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology--was a major nonprofit research...

The World Trade Organization and NAFTA are reviewing the sweetener system and governmental sugar programs and their impact on world trade. What position...

After decades of poor economic performance, the Irish government adopted major changes in economic policy in 1987. By the end of the 1990s, Ireland's...

As shown with Psy's hit song, "Gangnam Style," K-Pop (Korean Pop) music has been successful recently, not only in Asia but also in many other countries....

How nations trade and whether they benefit from it are two of the oldest and most important questions in political economy. In the 170 years since David...

In 1960, the United States was facing a balance of payments problem. Gold reserves were being drained, American products were losing competitiveness,...

The global beer industry took an unprecedented hit during the COVID-19 pandemic. Around the world, governments implemented restrictive coronavirus containment...

In February 2013, the G-20 finance ministers met in Moscow, Russia to discuss the rising anxieties over a potential international currency war. It was...

This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican...

Acoplasticos was established in 1961 as a lobbying group for Colombia's major plastics manufacturing companies. In the early 1980s, the organization shifted...

Provides an overview of the wide variety of organizations other than firms, government ministries and regulatory agencies, and universities that may have...

Supplement to case IN1271. The cases describe the development, worldwide launch, and subsequent marketing of a new pharmaceutical product which, although...

The case examines Málaga's evolution and its positioning as a smart city. It describes various strategic plans followed by the city, its strengths and...

The theory of competitive advantage is one of the most widely accepted economic principles among economists. The theory, as well as substantial historical...

Wang's Fortune Tea, marketed as Wanglaoji in mainland China and considered to be the founder of Chinese herbal tea, grew from a strong regional brand...

China is one of the most popular investment destinations in the world. Throughout much of the 1990s, China accounted for 50% of foreign direct investment...

Trade between China and Africa was estimated to have quadrupled between 2000 and 2008, with China becoming Africa's third-largest trading partner and...

For the past few decades, Australia has dealt with the benefits and costs of repeated mining booms-inflation, a housing bubble, a current account deficit,...

How to defend and expand its advanced industries.

Are you prepared?

Open innovation platforms are making it easier.

A survey of economists projects that the economic and technological gaps between the countries will continue to narrow.

Clearly, I have no choice but to file for French citizenship.

Innovation deserves protection.

Plus: bonus historical trivia about Richard Nixon and the gold standard.

It’s a resurgence other countries should understand before copying.

Economists agree: They’re a bad idea.

Why Wall Street is wrong to worry about the impact on earnings per share.