---
id: "quote-winning-tomorrow"
type: "quote"
source_timestamps: ["§ How to Develop a Country-Level AI Strategy"]
tags: ["competitive-advantage", "localization"]
related: ["claim-culturally-relevant-algorithms-win", "contrarian-cultural-fit-over-power"]
speaker: "Yasuhiro Yamakawa and Thomas H. Davenport"
speakers: ["Yasuhiro Yamakawa", "Thomas H. Davenport"]
sources: ["futures"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-futures"
originDay: 2
articleStem: "hbr-cl-94-ai-strategy-beyond-us-china"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2025/12/your-ai-strategy-needs-to-expand-beyond-the-u-s-and-china"
sourceTitle: "Your AI Strategy Needs to Expand Beyond the U.S. and China"
---
# The companies winning tomorrow

> "The companies winning tomorrow won't have the most powerful algorithms, they will have the most geographically and culturally relevant ones."

— [[entity-yasuhiro-yamakawa]] and [[entity-thomas-h-davenport]]

The authors' one-sentence distillation of their market-competition thesis: raw technical power is superseded by cultural fit. This is the quotable core of [[claim-culturally-relevant-algorithms-win]] and the direct expression of the reversal in [[contrarian-cultural-fit-over-power]].