Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The recent price swings highlight a new era of uncertainty gripping the world’s energy markets. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Large arrays of offshore wind turbines, although expensive to build, could take enough energy out of the wind to break the “feedback loop” of wind speed and wave heights that makes hurricanes so destructive, the scientists say.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Energy Report Power 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2015

With energy demands rising and reserves of oil and gas becoming more challenging to access, the productivity revolution promoted by the Industrial Internet is of vital importance to the oil and gas sector. This is sponsor content – insight from GE. trillion of relevant sectors.

Efficiency 8

Efficiency Offshoring System Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 30, 2013

continues to lose manufacturing jobs to offshore plants, but those losses are now being offset by inflows. An example is Whirlpool, which is moving some of its washing-machine production to a plant in Clyde, Ohio, from one in Monterrey, Mexico, mainly to take advantage of lower energy and product-transportation costs.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Transportation Energy Report 8

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.

Engineering 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

An energy-trading company rises high — and then suddenly implodes. One of these companies is a high-tech manufacturer, two of them are in the energy sector, and two of them are in the consumer transport business. A leading mobile-phone maker falls out of step with its market — and struggles to catch up. Five big companies.

Company 16

Company Airlines Offshoring PR 16

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Gulf region didn't destroy the company, didn't stop offshore oil drilling for very long, and didn't produce the political will to push for alternative energy sources. Google didn't exactly leave China or prevail in the face-off over government-banned content. The BP oil spill debacle in the U.S.

Technology 14

Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 14

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

oil and gas, the country now possesses an abundance of inexpensive energy. is an increasingly attractive location for manufacturers that are energy intensive or that can use natural gas as a primary input. In the future, many commoditized products will continue to be made offshore. Thanks to the boom in U.S. In the U.S.,

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

The growth of CMOs in high-tech fields such as alternative energy and integrated photonics would be a significant boost to the U.S. By shifting much of their production to Asia, Western companies have also offshored critical aspects of innovation. In photonics, offshoring has sometimes prevented U.S.

Contract Manufacturing 8

Contract Manufacturing Offshoring Supply Chain Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. energy or telecom) or research-intensive industries (e.g., As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. Facilitate Acquisitions.

Company 13

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 13

Harvard Business Review

MAY 21, 2013

The death of over 800 people in the collapse of Rana Plaza , a building with garment factories in Bangladesh, spurred widespread outrage over working conditions in offshore factories. In the search for blame, many commentators point to the absence of building codes, lack of workplace safety rules, and the greed of US corporations.

Business Model 8

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The factory floor at Pittsburgh’s Aquion Energy doesn’t look much like the steel mills that once populated this Rust Belt city. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. Aquion is a modern success story for American industry.

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

“In some offshore wind applications, changing the main bearing on a turbine is so expensive that it undermines the business case for building the turbine in the first place,” said Filippo Zingariello, director of global strategic development at SKF. Railway operators and wind farm owners were among the first to deploy the concept.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

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. Insecurity. But can you blame them? Yet it's what roughly about 75% of us do every weary day of our drab working lives.

GDP 19

GDP Hypercompetition Offshoring Long-term 19

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

PET supplies fuel, energy, lubricants, and petrochemicals, while TTD is one of the world’s leading suppliers of gas and diesel engines. Ten of the engineers were in the early stages of their careers, 19 were mid-career, and five were in late career. Over 80% had undergraduate degrees, and 43% had children.

Engineering 10

Engineering Management Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

For example, if engineers don't possess the know-how needed to limit the material and energy cost of setting up and operating cloud services, IT can't scale as it needs to. Offshoring manufacturing and design. Not understanding the physical complexity of a given infrastructure may result in grave consequences for the IT industry.

Engineering 10

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Following are a few of the ideas Carlos shared yesterday: Dreaming BIG and dreaming small take the same amount of energy – why not dream BIG? Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. Companies are made of people, so dreams matter.

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Blog Brand Media Influence 302

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 292

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Business leaders can take an active role in shaping the next phase of globalization by looking beyond cost-based offshoring and emphasizing the benefits of trade and technology across a wider geographic and demographic base. Yet such ecosystems are not just the purview of web companies.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. In the last six years the federal government funded 56 cluster initiatives in areas from green energy to defense contracting.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2014

Faced with rapid evolution in their industry, the executive team of a large energy company had decided to transform their solid but complacent organization into a high-tech, sustainability-oriented firm, a key element of which was the completion of a multibillion dollar offshore energy project.

360-Degree Feedback 10

360-Degree Feedback Offshoring Construction Execution 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories. Of course, a low-growth environment creates plenty of challenges for energy producers.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

This is a familiar scene for companies building mines, pipelines, oil fields, and, more recently, even renewable energy and large real estate projects. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.”

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

Finally, in earnings call after earnings call, we hear CEOs describing one or two bets — at most — on growth, and devoting most of the time to showcasing the results of restructuring, offshoring and other cost-focused initiatives. Why is growth shortchanged at so many companies?

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here. Draw upon and reward current workers or recent retirees hailing from architecture, the trades, manufacturing, utilities, energy, food production, healthcare and beyond to mentor students on campus or in the workplace. While the U.S.

Politics 10

Politics Maturity Mentor Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2015

GE has also introduced it to American customers at the 2013 Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas. The Condition Monitoring system is already working at some 130 sites in the North Sea operated by Statoil, ENI, and Shell, and off the coast of Africa. “Water is a very good medium for propagation of sound waves.

Industry 8

Industry Offshoring Engineering Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

One obvious reason was that the huge trillion-dollar investment bets, most of it taxpayer money, in synthetic biology, robotics, nanotechnogy, space, and alternative energy did not pay off. innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore. And Big Business did not even make those bets.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

HR Digest

JULY 22, 2019

These and many more challenges and the struggle for energy efficiency inspired world mining leaders a few years ago to launch a large-scale process of updating their mining facilities. The offshore supply vessel was slated to become operation by 2018, but the team has missed the timeline.

Industry 87

Industry Operations Transportation Technology 87

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

President Obama, with his counterparts in Canada and Mexico, agreed to some aggressive regional targets on renewable energy and efficiency. At the state level, New Jersey passed a big new gas tax , and Oregon , Illinois , and California developed robust energy and climate policies. finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

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. The avowed environmentalism of energy companies is an example. The successful ones have, at least. Donald Trump won the U.S.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10