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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

GE''s " insourcing " of appliance manufacturing to the U.S. GE''s insourcing is actually quite similar. Dirk''s answer was: "We can save on transportation and be closer to our customers. I see it differently: as a "NUMMI deja vu" story. So, how did GE do it? from Korea, China, and Mexico.

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New Math Will Drive a U.S. Manufacturing Comeback

Harvard Business Review

We originally saw this "insourcing" phenomenon, as the White House now refers to it, starting around 2015. An estimated 600,000 to 1 million of these jobs would be directly in manufacturing, with the remainder in construction, orders for new equipment, supporting services, transportation and retail sales. This could increase U.S.

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Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE

Harvard Business Review

And we ‘insourced’ the recruiting activity, hiring recruiters who knew where our target candidates hung out and what appealed to them. .” To hit the aggressive growth targets (750 by the end of 2013 and 1000 by November 2014) Waldo had to rewrite some GE rules.