An Idea Whose Time Had Come: Productivity—The International Perspective

Abstract

There is little reason for confidence that the United States can survive the challenge to its economic primacy without substantial outlays of thought, energy, and resources to productivity growth. One institution has already begun such outlay. This article reports the approach of one institutional effort to address the productivity challenge—and relates that approach to other public and private efforts to address the issue. More specifically, this approach is placed in the historical context of business schools’ attempts to assess themselves as to how well they prepare their constituents for imaginative and responsible citizenship and leadership roles for business and society—domestic and worldwide.