N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Unfortunately, though, it would seem that the majority of businesses, educational institutions, and other organizations have yet to recognize this truth. The colour of my skin is merely what I am, not who I am.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible. The next time you’re tempted to put learning on the back burner, remember a few points: Educational investments are an economic imperative.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

We estimate that tens of thousands of engineers and scientists working for top innovators are actually located in their offshore technical centers in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China); these are often called "captive" R&D centers or offshore R&D locations. Offshore Outsourced Product Development.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. President Obama’s revival of wage insurance is not about trade or services offshoring as a cause of job loss. Education and training programs remain necessary for workers to gain the skills needed to land high-wage jobs.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

On a trip to South America last fall, for instance, I recall talking to people in the oil industry about a complicated offshore drilling project. Solving them will involve changes to our financial system, our innovation system, our education system, and our political system. Until recently, only U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Mere recovery probably won't do much to derail this trend, because the rise of McJobs has deeper causes: offshoring, skills gaps, undereducation, regulatory deficits, our own bottomless appetite for McStuff. Educational attainment has slowed in recent years , while unemployment has spiked for the least educated. Insecurity.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Highly structured work that requires lower skills and education — transactional work — is going away in many Western companies, supplanted by automation, outsourcing, and offshoring. Knowledge work redesign.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

This is critical because a future where blockchain usurps central banks by eliminating clearing houses and citizens do business locally but bank offshore , only innovation will guarantee survival. Education loan is practically not in existence. Think about local needs. What works in U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

These measures by the mill owners might seem surprising because even today factory workers with little education are often considered “unskilled.” Technical skills learned through experience allowed blue-collar workers with little education to enter the middle class. However, this process took a long time.

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Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Skillshare and TaskRabbit are tackling education and task completion. And job losses have come in two forms: globalization that led to offshoring and technological displacement. You can’t avoid peer-to-peer marketplaces. For transportation and housing, look no further than Uber, Lyft, and Airbnb.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

The Teacher’s Union has killed education in America. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. The increased education of our workforce mandates a change in leadership style. The lack of leadership development in most organizations is tragic.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Traditionally, it has been government’s role to provide equality of opportunity (particularly through education), an effective safety net, and social, political, and economic stability. Education is critical in creating career mobility and equality of opportunity, which are at least as important as, and closely tied to, income gaps.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Equally important are bold reforms in workforce education and training systems. And yet, years of offshoring and industrial decline have hollowed out many of our manufacturing clusters: Since 1980, the number of metropolitan areas with more than 10% of their workforce in advanced industries has decreased from 59 to just 23.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

There’s ample evidence that for every cybercriminal activity that gets squashed in the United States, an offshore competitor takes it — at cheaper rates. Most important is education: Everyone — individuals, employees, companies, and boards of directors — needs to understand the new dangers.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. While few SMMs entertain offshoring strategies, they do, increasingly, compete globally. Around the world, educated people are the one single indispensable ingredient for innovation. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here. 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. While the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. Start with the wages of college-educated workers, people who tend to work in creative industries. One common definition of innovation is invention that generates value. But we never ask value for whom? By not investing in traditional Made In America, the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

availability of housing, recreation, goods and services, and education facilities). availability of housing, recreation, goods and services, and education facilities). At the same time, an offshore location like the Cayman Islands has a lower lifestyle ranking due to island-related restrictions (e.g.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Online educational technology could reduce cross-border flows of university students. And even if they themselves were engineered to be simpatico, it is hard to imagine that radical increases in the offshoring of labor services would be viewed as a successful and therefore sustainable outcome in an era of so much concern about jobs. (Of

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 16, 2016

has created no net new jobs for those whose highest educational level is a high-school degree (or less) since the job market bottomed out in 2010, but it has created 4 million jobs for people with a bachelor’s degree. service industries like higher education, publishing, design, and consulting. To understand the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. Offshoring and outsourcing today are like sex in the Victorian era: repressed or criticized in public discussion, much practiced in private behavior. Business Purpose.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. Finally, to educate the next generation of analysts, the CFA exam will now include a focus on ESG issues. For four days in May, Portugal was 100% powered by renewables, and on a single windy day Denmark’s windfarms gave the country 140% of what it needed.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. This should involve not only education but also incentives, such as employer contributions that go beyond what is required by law.

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