Global Supply Chains Have a New Bottom Line

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The endless drive to reduce costs by relocating production facilities has resulted in a globalized, vertically integrated, and highly specialized manufacturing model that benefits specific countries and regions. Willingly and consciously, we have created unbridled globalized supply chains that focus on maximizing value.

From economic value to social and environmental values, global supply chains have a new bottom line.  Find out why.

Healthy and Productive Global Citizenry

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Douglas Besharov and Douglas Call co-author an article for The Wilson Quarterly, "The Global Budget Race," which talks about how the United States must make tough choices in order to climb out of its current debt crisis.

Snippet:

Those countries that do a better job of bringing revenues and spending into balance—in a way that fosters a healthy and productive citizenry—will have a competitive advantage in the global economy, and they may be able to avoid economic decline.

Read the entire article (Autumn 2010) here.

The Global Entrepreneurial Edge: Have You Got It?

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Can the new wave of entrepreneurship worldwide be sustained? Read more (however, to read most of the material in its entirety, you have to become a subscriber except for what we preview below -- shame on The Wilson Quarterly for cutting off a great deal of our thirst for knowledge) at the Spring Edition 2010 of The Wilson Quarterly.

THE ENTREPRENEURIAL EDGE
Can America Keep It?

For 30 years, the United States has ridden a spectacular wave of technology-based entrepreneurship. Now, with economic lethargy at home and rising challenges abroad, can the wave be sustained?

• China’s Other Path by Yasheng Huang
  

The Enterprise of Nations

by David S. Landes
Critics have tried to explain away the West’s centuries-long economic domination of the globe; they would do better to study its lessons.

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