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The Increase in U.S. Manufacturing Jobs Is Nothing to Cheer About

Harvard Business Review

After the 2001 recession, the rate of growth was lower than before the recession. From 2001 to 2010, some 20 million service jobs that could have been expected to materialize based on historical rates did not. Technology will affect them, but the impact will take longer and may be less deep than other areas.

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Big Bets vs. Little Bets and the future of HP

Harvard Business Review

Ned Barnholt is the former CEO of Agilent Technologies, the measurement company, and these days he's one of the more respected executives in Silicon Valley. The technology was great. In 1972, HP's first calculator, the HP-35, would retail at $400 at a time when the market for scientific calculators did not yet exist.

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Don’t Let Them Steal Your Inventions

Harvard Business Review

On March 18, 2010, an Apple engineer left what looked like an iPhone 3 in a German beer garden in Redwood, California. For instance, Apple filed applications for the original iPhone only four days before it was announced in 2007; for the original iPod in 2001, the filing was one day before release.

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How to Anticipate a Burning Platform

Harvard Business Review

The book retail platform was not yet burning. The HBR article describes how B&N moved on multiple fronts at once: It aggressively reduced costs in its core retail business while refocusing its stores around consumer needs. By 2010, it would have been too late to act, as we saw with the Border's bankruptcy.

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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM HBS EXECUTIVE EDUCATION

Harvard Business Review

It’s worth noting that the companies and business units in my study were tracked between 2001 and 2007. A: Best Buy, the largest dedicated consumer electronics retailer in the United States, provides a good example of a company that developed an outside-in orientation by tackling its own internal silos.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business Review

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. Low-wage economies like Mexico’s and China’s absorb American technology and build industrial capability more easily today than ever. communities.