If only the US would do this

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Companies worldwide adopt English-only policy

English is emerging as the common tongue of the global economy, and companies that fail to adopt an English-only policy could face a competitive disadvantage.

So argues Harvard Business School professor Tsedal Neeley in the May issue of the Harvard Business Review. In her article, Neeley notes that such companies as Airbus, Daimler-Chrysler, Fast Retailing, Nokia, Renault, Samsung, and SAP have “mandated’’ English as their corporate lingua franca.