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.

Engineering 9

Engineering Management Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 9

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. We've known for a decade or more that this shift to more production-engineered knowledge work was underway. It's not easy, but you can still chart a career through this difficult this environment.

Marketing 16

Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Similarly slow progress was seen in steam engines, factory electrification, and petroleum refining. But without a robust labor market, textile workers could not look forward to a long career at different workplaces and so they had little reason to invest in learning. 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

MARCH 1, 2012

These are nuclear engineers, hydraulic and electrical systems workers, and the rich ecosystem of people who make and run what we use everyday — from life-saving tubing hook-ups in hospital rooms to the bridges we cross. These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here.

Politics 10

Politics Maturity Mentor Offshoring 10