Harvard Business School Alumni Temper Pessimism About the U.S.
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Harvard Business School alumni have turned less pessimistic about U.S. competitiveness and more confident in the country’s ability to keep up with or pull ahead of other advanced and emerging market economies, according to a survey released today.
Forty-seven percent of respondents saw U.S. competitiveness declining over the next three years, down from 58 percent who expressed that view in 2012 and 71 percent who said so in 2011. The diminished pessimism was evident among both liberals and conservatives, the survey found. Some four in five said the U.S. was either keeping up with or pulling ahead of other advanced economies, while more than half said the same about America’s position vis-à-vis emerging markets.