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Harold Sirkin is the global leader of Boston Consulting Group's operations practice. He is co-author of Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, published by Harvard Business School Press. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in accounting and finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Sirkin is a columnist for Asia Insight.
December 22, 2009
My daughter returned to college in New York this fall. During the summer she kept many of her belongings in an off-campus storage facility. Everything was secured with...
December 4, 2009
Journalists and economists will be writing the story of the Great Recession for decades to come. One of the most important stories, which we can start writing today, ...
October 13, 2009
When I arrived this summer at Keflavik International Airport, about 30 miles west of Reykjavik, the capital, I expected to see a devastated country. Iceland's three ...
September 8, 2009
When economic historians analyze the Great Recession that began in December 2007, they are likely to discover that the pace of globalization accelerated during the ...
July 31, 2009
Companies everywhere have reacted to the recession by lowering revenue projections and tightening their belts: delaying purchases, canceling nonessential travel, ...
July 14, 2009
In the past few weeks, I've visited several CEOs in Europe and Asia. During my trip, I was asked the same two two questions over and over: "When will U.S. consumers ...
June 12, 2009
Some 18 months into what's now being called the "Great Recession," many businesses are still hunkered down in survival mode. While survival, of course, is a ...
May 13, 2009
My home state of Illinois is a major transportation hub, a leading manufacturing center, and one of America's top producers of soybeans, corn, and coal. We also rank ...
April 21, 2009
Over the past few weeks, I've met with more than a half-dozen U.S. CEOs whose companies represent a wide range of industries. They all told me that while their January...
April 10, 2009
A few weeks ago, my wife asked me why the U.S. doesn't make anything of value anymore. Everything, she said, is made in China or Mexico or other faraway points on the ...
March 13, 2009
The question doesn't really matter, but the answer for U.S. manufacturers always seems to be the same: China. With good reason. China has a huge, low-cost, ...
February 13, 2009
The U.S. and Chinese economies have been growing closer. Now it's time to decide: Do we drift into common-law marriage, get engaged and make plans for a permanent ...
January 13, 2009
I don't think you'd find it surprising that, as someone who focuses on globalization, I spend countless hours in airports each year. And as I traveled for several ...
December 12, 2008
I spent much of November meeting with executives of 18 companies in seven countries: France, Germany, Italy, China, India, Japan, and Brazil. I don't take notes at ...
October 31, 2008
Dear Senators McCain and Obama: It is now clear that the upcoming election will be mostly about the economy and jobs. Your first weeks and months in the White House ...
October 30, 2008
Dear Senators McCain and Obama: Politicians at all levels of government, from local school board members and state legislators to those seeking the highest office in ...
October 21, 2008
Dear Senators McCain and Obama: One of the great advantages the U.S. has enjoyed over the years, until recently at least, has been our extraordinary infrastructure: ...
September 28, 2008
Dear Senators McCain and Obama: When one of you is sworn in as the 44th President of the U.S. next Jan. 20, you will inherit many problems and an even greater number ...
September 16, 2008
Of all the resources for which everyone from everywhere will be competing in the years ahead, talent is the most precious—and may be the most difficult to come ...
August 5, 2008
In 1969 I caught a fever that swept through New York like a pandemic: Mets fever. That was the year the once-hapless New York Mets racked up a 100-win season for the ...
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