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The Real Reason Superstar Firms Are Pulling Ahead

Harvard Business

One answer to that first question shows up in study after study: superstar firms are succeeding in large part due to information technology. Perhaps, as OECD economist Chiara Criscuolo wrote in 2015, “ Some firms clearly ‘get it’ and others don’t.” Second, intangibles complement each other.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

but the latter’s volume of exports is so much larger that the bilateral trade deficit has risen by roughly 50% since 2009 and stood at $366 billion in 2015. information technology companies to disclose their proprietary source code, which is their core competitive advantage. Still, China is the poster child for U.S.