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Oil’s Boom-and-Bust Cycle May Be Over. Here’s Why

Harvard Business Review

oil production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. Major oil and gas producers are now trying to apply lessons from the shale revolution’s use of cutting-edge technologies to reduce development cycle times and costs for offshore conventional oil projects by about 40-50%. The soaring U.S.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. By 2011 , only three out of the top 10 industries that received 90% of PE funding were industries that tended to build products in the United States. based labor. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S.

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The Global Banking Leaders of the Future

Harvard Business Review

Recent headlines have been foreboding, highlighting concerns that the retrenchment could leave the most promising engines of global economic growth sputtering. Lending from Europe remained flat, and the gap was filled from elsewhere — largely Asian offshore centers and the U.K. Filling the Gap.

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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. We can have engineering work more closely with production. To demonstrate their deep commitment, in December 2011 GE rolled out team leader training.

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Looking for Jobs in All the Wrong Places: Memo to the President

Harvard Business Review

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Perhaps the biggest job killer — and it's the greatest threat to the survival of America's once-vibrant middle class — is the systematic offshoring of our high-tech manufacturing capacity.

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Does Your CEO Really Get Data Security?

Harvard Business Review

The Social-Engineer Toolkit , a cyber version of the Anarchist Cookbook , openly provides tools and techniques for launching attacks and engaging in other malevolent behavior (though it''s also a useful tool for the security community). Companies mistakenly write off these reports as irrelevant to them. million, including $35.9

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