Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2012

The evidence indicates that the United States is losing its ability to attract and expand the operations of multinationals and their significant contributions to productivity growth, innovation, and high-wage employment. shares of the global operations of U.S.-based competitiveness, for example, and the 2010 study of U.S.

Globalization 9

Globalization Rivkin Supply Chain Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 3, 2011

The Institute, which officially opened in January 2010, includes the Model Kitchen, the Testing Station for Household Devices, and what's called the "Domestic Science Laboratory." And outsourced technology providers, such as Bazaarvoice, made it relatively straightforward to add consumer product reviews to retail sites.

Productivity 12

Productivity Products Retail Telemarketing 12

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Do what you do best and outsource the software and community building to the experts. If you were to make a list of up-and-coming business trends, social media strategies would probably be near the top. Instead, you’d hire someone skilled in those areas.

Media 50

Media Follow-up Software Newsletter 50

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? In a world of virtual value chains and multi-part outsourcing, how do we bring good judgment to bear? His most recent books are Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning and Analytics at Work. All rights reserved.

Guidelines 14

Guidelines Education Telecommunications Emotional Intelligence 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 8, 2012

In response, the management team made a counterintuitive move: It outsourced network installation, maintenance, and service to Ericsson, Nokia, and Siemens, and chose IBM to build and manage its IT systems. Bharti has enjoyed compounded annual growth in sales revenues of 120% and growth in net profits of 282% per year between 2003 and 2010.

Outsourcing 10

Outsourcing Wireless Telecommunications Core Competence 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 27, 2017

Among the 30 top companies in seven of the largest industries, almost half had a VC-fueled accelerator in 2015, up from just 2% in 2010. Third, corporate VCs and accelerators are costly and complex to operate, turning them into a slow and expensive innovation tool.

Venture Capitalist 8

Venture Capitalist Meyer Innovation Fixed Costs 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2012

When Palmisano took over in early 2002, IBM had four main businesses each organized on a global basis: hardware, software, services (such as back-office outsourcing), and personal computers (PCs). The financial results were magnificent: profits in 2010 were $13.06 The CEC was dissolved. Think Tahrir Square as a corporate process.).

Software 15

Software Outsourcing Committee Consultative 15

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 3, 2014

When we started to look at new locations for our call center operations, we initially considered outsourcing to India or the Philippines and met with a few potential providers. This is an excerpt from How I Did It: Zappo’s CEO on Going to Extremes for Customers from the July 2010 issue of Harvard Business Review.

CEO 8

CEO Call Center Real Estate Merchandising 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. Apple, the single exception, operates as a startup. And Big Business did not even make those bets.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But it’s important to understand the underlying elements of this debate: one level rests on the heavy use of H-1B visas by outsourcing firms; another rests on the disagreement over whether the program increases companies’ access to scarce skills, or merely helps them minimize costs. “But more engineers is a good thing.

Outsourcing 9

Outsourcing Engineering Skills Information Technology 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. First, the more global the company (in terms of the range of countries it operated in and the proportion of its sales made outside the U.S.), We wanted to find out.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9