Roberto Crotti and Cecilia Serin: Being Sustainable Makes You More...
For the last three years, the World Economic Forum has been working on better analysing and measuring how sustainability relates to national competitiveness. Indeed, since the Global Competitiveness...
View ArticleThomas A. Stewart: The U.S. Middle Market Has Found a Higher Gear
U.S. unemployment has at long last fallen below 6 percent. Gross domestic product growth has recovered following a stumble early in the year. The economy seems to have settled into a decent growth rate...
View ArticleKati Suominen: Rise of the Re-Invention Economy
As automation and computerization expand, anxiety about jobs is at a fever pitch. Some say computers will displace a vast array of human work. Many others argue it polarizes the labor market: in a...
View ArticleRaghu Krishnamoorthy: The Most Valuable Currency
What’s the most critical currency in today’s global economy? Jobs. And they likely will be tomorrow’s, too. The shortage of job talent into the foreseeable future is staggering. In the Middle East...
View ArticleRita Ramalho: How Governments Can Spark Entrepreneurship
Great ideas for new business ventures happen every day and everywhere. Some go far, while others never take off. Great ideas are at the heart of development; they allow economies to grow, and they...
View ArticleDavid C. Chavern: Ideas May Strike Like Lightning, but Innovation Must Be...
The idea for an invention or a new technology may strike unexpectedly, but innovation — putting those ideas to work in our society and our economy — is no accident. It doesn’t just happen. It must be...
View ArticleDennis DeTurck and Bruce Lenthall: Transforming STEM Education
Imagine an introductory college physics class where instead of sitting in a lecture hall, students work in small teams to predict the height from which an object must slide or roll downhill to...
View ArticleStacey Jarrett Wagner and Edward Youdell Talk: Robots — Love ‘Em Or Hate ‘Em,...
Stacey: Well, it seems we all survived the mid-term elections in spite of the robots. Ed: Robots, what robots? Stacey: Robo-calls. Those annoying automatic messages from the candidates trying to get...
View ArticleBruce Katz and Mark Muro: What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced...
Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely...
View ArticleFinancial Times: GE Healthcare To Improve Organic Growth With Digital Technology
John Flannery, GE Healthcare’s chief executive officer, told the Financial Times that when he started his job last year, he “didn’t come with a mandate to do big M&A.” Instead, Flannery, who held...
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