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Excerpt from Harvard Business Review -- "In globalization’s heyday, strategic sectors—those in which governments take an active interest—and nonstrategic ones were easy to identify. Multinational companies could enter some industries, such as soft drinks, all over the world; other sectors, such as aircraft manufacturing, were off-limits. That’s why Coca-Cola sells its products in more than 200 countries today, while Lockheed Martin generates 80% of its revenues from sales to the U.S. government and employs 95% of its workforce in the United States. In the new era of guarded globalization, however, any sector could prove to be strategic, depending on a government’s attitudes and policies."

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