Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Engineering faces a serious gender-based retention problem. Despite all the efforts encouraging women to study engineering, over 40% of highly skilled women who enter the field end up leaving. In 2014 we interviewed 34 women engineers in two FTSE 100 firms in the UK. vgajic/Getty Images. You can’t do anything wrong.

Engineering 10

Engineering Management Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically? And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? Six selected insights are presented here, tempered with our own experience in many years of consulting with global engineering initiatives.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

Since joining the Harvard Business School in 2007 (after a long career at IBM, Kodak, Silicon Graphics, and other companies), I have visited hundreds of factories. With the exception of two jet-engine factories and two plants that make heavy equipment, all were located outside the United States. If that surprises you, you're not alone.

Supply Chain 15

Supply Chain Offshoring Engineering Pharmaceuticals 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development. Because management and professional services have traditionally been delivered face-to-face, Sally thought her job and location were reasonably safe. Sally (name has been changed) was laid off six months ago.

Marketing 16

Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

But over the next century, weavers improved their skills and mechanics and managers made adaptations and improvements, generating a twenty-fold increase in output per hour. Similarly slow progress was seen in steam engines, factory electrification, and petroleum refining. Only then did wages begin to grow vigorously.

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. Household debt averaged 75% of disposal personal income between 1975 and 2000, according to Stephen Roach, senior executive at Morgan Stanley and lecturer at Yale's School of Management. workers in engineering, manufacturing, even aerospace.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12