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Recent opeds and articles 

Article - Barron's

Labor markets are still tight. It’s a long-term issue, and not just in the US

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Article - Forbes

Here’s how to address labor shortages to drive economic growth

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Article - Forbes

How leaders can deploy AI and boost skills for the new future of work

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Article - World Economic Forum

Why closing the small business productivity gap can create enormous value for economies

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Article - Bloomberg

Productivity growth matters more than ever in a changing geoeconomic era

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Article - Project Syndicate

Human capital for the age of generative AI

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Article - Fortune

America’s productivity growth is recovering to pre-great financial crisis rates. Europe has more work to do

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Article - Forbes

From priced out to economically empowered: Why affordability matters

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Article - World Economic Forum

Scale matters more than ever for European competitiveness. Here's why

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Article - World Economic Forum

A seven-point guide to getting the net-zero transition on track

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Article - Inc.

Opportunities to boost small company productivity: Research on micro, small, and midsize companies offers new ideas about how to close the productivity gap

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Article - Forbes

How countries and companies can rev up the productivity engine

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Article - Hong Kong Economic Times

The global economy is resetting, China is repositioning itself to export innovative technologies, and its trading partners are more diverse.

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Article - Fortune

Affordability, reliability, and industrial competitiveness will make or break the net-zero transition. Here’s how

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Article - Forbes

Asia’s new era: Optimism tempered by geopolitical realities

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Article - Bloomberg Asia

Global trade relationships are reconfiguring—with trade-offs

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Article - Forbes

How the US job landscape is changing—and how to adapt

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Article - World Economic Forum

Why alleviating poverty and fighting climate change don't have to be mutually exclusive goals

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Article - China Daily

Cusp of new era in Asia

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Article - Milken Institute Review

Empty spaces, hybrid places

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Article - Devex

How can we both empower people and protect the planet?

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Article - Brookings

Raising living standards and getting to net zero: Pulling off two generational transformations

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Article - World Economic Forum

There is no ‘one Africa’: How the continent can turn diversity into growth and opportunity

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Article - Forbes

Growth is key to unlock progress for people and planet

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Article - Project Syndicate

Action on planet and people depends on growth

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Article - Mint

The G20 must press ahead with sustainable and inclusive growth

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Article - World Economic Fourm

Paper wealth or wealth based on productivity – what happens next?

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Article - Forbes India

How evaluating 'granular' economic and social development improves decision-making

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Article - Fortune

Will generative AI be good for US workers?

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Article - Fortune

Demand for urban real estate will be challenged for the rest of the decade. Here’s how the world’s superstar cities are projected to fare by 2030

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Article - Fast Company

AI could increase corporate profits by $4.4 trillion a year, according to new research

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Article - Forbes

Seizing the $10 trillion opportunity for the US economy: A CEO’s playbook for restoring productivity growth

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Article - San Francisco Business Times

California is a productivity leader but there are serious gaps: Closing them is $1.4 trillion opportunity

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Article - Barron's

The global balance sheet is off-kilter. Central banks can't fix it.

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Article - Project Syndicate

Strengthening the global balance sheet

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Article - Fortune

McKinsey Global Institute sees 4 possible scenarios for the economy by 2030. Only one leads to long-term growth

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Article - The Edge

How a microregional perspective can inform strategy

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Article - Project Syndicate

Globalization is greener

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Article - The Economic Times

No breaking value chain

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Article - Project Syndicate

Reimagining global integration

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Article - Fortune

America’s productivity engine is sputtering. Fixing it is a $10 trillion opportunity

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Article - Harvard Business Review

What the most productive companies do differently

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Article - Forbes

Pixels of Progress: How a microregional perspective can inform your strategy

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Article - Fortune

To reinvent globalization, companies and countries should think ‘diversifying,’ not ‘decoupling,’ according to McKinsey Global Institute’s research

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Article - Project Syndicate

What does the world need to achieve sustainable, inclusive growth?

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Article - Project Syndicate

All progress is local

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Article - Project Syndicate

Reimagining our global connections

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Article - Forbes

Is the world on the brink of a new era?

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Article - The Business Times

Global connections are evolving, not retreating

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Article - Forbes

Meet the US workers who are going it alone—and feeling good about it

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Article - Project Syndicate

The cusp of a new era?

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Article - Forbes

Turning around the productivity slowdown 

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Article - Project Syndicate

Cracking the job code

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Article - Fast Company

If you want to grow in your career (and lifetime earnings), you need to focus on doing this

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Article - Forbes

Thinking differently about talent in a tighter labor market

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Article - Fortune

The best way for companies to build their talent pool: Embrace employee mobility

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Article - World Economic Forum Agenda

3 ways work experience outsmarts formal education for professional development

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Article - Forbes

Here's how leaders can navigate labor shortages and skills mismatches

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Article - Project Syndicate

Addressing Europe's corporate technology gap

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Article - Milken Institute Review

When more may be less

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Article - Mint

Businesses must make net-zero plans to go with our climate goals

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Article - VoxEU

Measuring business: Accounting for companies' value creation and societal impact

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Article - Project Syndicate

The anatomy of the net-zero transition

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Article - Fortune

Climate change: What we will need to spend, and what we will need to change, to reach net zero

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Article - Nikkei Asia

Asia-Pacific should use its increasing wealth more productively

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Article - The Business Times

What it will cost to get to net-zero

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Article - Fortune

7 questions can help CEOs set the stage for sustainable and inclusive growth

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Article - Barron's

Global wealth has exploded. Are we using it wisely?

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Article - China Daily

Bold ventures - China has the wealth to make investments to strengthen the social contract, address climate change and stimulate greater economic vitality

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Article - Project Syndicate

The rise of intangible capitalism

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Article - Brookings

Asia’s consumer map is being redrawn

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Article - Bangkok Post

The emergence of new consumer segments and implications for companies in Asia and Thailand

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Article - China Daily

China’s consumption story steadily evolving

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Article - World Economic Forum

Fostering sustainable development through open data for finance

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Article - Barron’s

Shortages of everyday products have become the new normal. Why they won’t end soon.

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Article - Project Syndicate

The promise of open financial data

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Article - OECD Forum

Open data for finance as an emerging source of GDP growth

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Article - The Korea Times

Going it alone: The rise of Asia's solo economy

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Article - Harvard Business Review

Closing the job mobility gap between black and white americans

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Article - World Economic Forum

How defining intangible investments can help grow the knowledge economy

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Article - Georgetown Journal of International Affairs

Building national supply chain resilience

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Article - Project Syndicate

The stickiness of pandemic-driven economic behavior

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Article - CNN Business

Here’s how to propel 2 million Black Americans to the middle class

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Article - Market Watch

This is the COVID consumer trend most likely to stick beyond the pandemic

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Article - Harvard Business Review

Lessons on resilience for small and midsize businesses

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Article - OECD Forum

Five priorities to support economies after the COVID-19 crisis

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Article - The Korea Times

McKinsey advises Korean firms to embrace net-zero economy

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Article - Market Watch

This is a now or never moment to make US manufacturing more competitive

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Article - Industry Today

Why now is the time to revitalize US manufacturing

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Article - World Economic Forum

In charts: how economic sentiment has changed during COVID-19

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Article - World Economic Forum

Two key conditions for a post-pandemic economic recovery

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Article - Project Syndicate

The varieties of consumer revival

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Article - VoxEU

Pathways for productivity and growth after the COVID-19 crisis

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Article - Project Syndicate

Productivity after the pandemic

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Article - Milken Institute Review

The necessity of doing well by doing good

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Article - Brookings

What will the consumer demand recovery from COVID-19 look like

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Article - Los Angeles Times

How COVID-19 will change the low-wage labor market permanently

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Article - Project Syndicate

How to spend $12 trillion

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Article - Fortune

COVID-19 has driven millions of women out of the workforce. Here's how to help them come back

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Article - Project Syndicate

The promise and peril of the Bio Revolution

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Article - China Daily

Transforming world's largest workforce into lifelong learners

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Article - Foreign Affairs

COVID-19 could undo decades of women’s progress: How to counter the pandemic’s gender-regressive shock

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Article - Project Syndicate

Long live the Bio-Revolution

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Article - Project Syndicate

What is driving Asia's technological rise?

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