Business Growth
September 24th 2014
Continuous Reinvention: Greater Boston's Knowledge Economy Edge
Next month, more than 100 business, civic and government leaders will travel to Boston as part of our Greater Philadelphia Leadership Exchange. As we prepare for the visit, we take a closer look at how Boston is tackling critical issues related to growth and opportunity. This piece focuses on... Read More
Education & Talent
September 24th 2014
Education & Innovation in Massachusetts
Next month, more than 100 business, civic and government leaders will travel to Boston as part of our Greater Philadelphia Leadership Exchange. As we prepare for the visit, we take a closer look at how Boston is tackling critical issues related to growth and opportunity. This piece focuses on the... Read More
Business Growth
July 5th 2014
Driving Technology Transfer in Greater Philadelphia
In today’s innovation economy, regions that are able to translate research discoveries into viable products and services are poised to capture significant growth. With Greater Philadelphia’s world class academic and medical research institutions, converting promising ideas and technologies to the... Read More
Education & Talent
July 5th 2014
Giving More Kids Access to High-Quality Early Education
Persistent disparities in educational achievement represent a major obstacle to growth and opportunity in Greater Philadelphia. This achievement gap starts long before children enter kindergarten. In fact, recent studies have found vocabulary differences between poor and higher-income... Read More
Infrastructure
June 26th 2014
Enhancing Greater Philadelphia's Global Reach
As more businesses require access to routes of international trade and travel, convenient and reliable connections to established and emerging markets will greatly influence Greater Philadelphia’s economic competitiveness. The quality of our region’s international connections depends in no small... Read More
Regional Direction
June 24th 2014
Tracking Progress for Smarter Investments
Back in 2009, we launched the World Class initiative with the goal of developing and sustaining a new way of working together to achieve big goals for our region. And over the last several years, we’ve engaged countless civic and business leaders not only to establish a shared vision of a World... Read More
Education & Talent
June 23rd 2014
High Quality Pre-K: A Wise Investment
Contributing writer John Miller explores why both local and national business leaders support investing in high-quality early learning. This is the final installment in a two-part series focused on early childhood education (for part one, click here). As the Roaring Twenties careened to a... Read More
Education & Talent
May 19th 2014
5 Questions for Stacy Holland, Chief of Strategic Partnerships for the Philadelphia School District
Earlier this year, the Philadelphia School District released a new Action Plan (v2.0) outlining its current and planned priorities. The plan is organized around four "anchor goals" that closely align with the World Class agenda for K-12 education (Read more in What Makes the Philadelphia School... Read More
Education & Talent
May 19th 2014
State Leads on Early Education
In his 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama called on state and federal legislators to invest in early childhood education. It’s not the first time he’s called for improving educational foundations for children. While this support is important, the real action, as with most education... Read More
GPLEX
April 18th 2014