The Horizons Tracker

DECEMBER 19, 2019

.” It assesses the landscape through the lens of data from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China and India, with a particular focus on business school application data via GMAC’s Application Trends Survey Report 2019. ” German AI company Inveox provide a great example of this in action.

Globalization 52

Globalization Offshoring Human Capital Innovation 52

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. In a recent survey of 369 manufacturers , researchers found that across a range of fields U.S. While few SMMs entertain offshoring strategies, they do, increasingly, compete globally. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2012

British Petroleum: The blowout of the Deepwater Horizon offshore oil rig, in April 2010, resulted in a massive crisis for BP and its partners. Even a cursory survey of high-profile organizational failures will turn up numerous stories that fit the same pattern. We didn't select these examples entirely at random.

Company 16

Company Airlines Offshoring PR 16

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

Using data from its in-house survey team, which continually researches the financial and lifestyle conditions of more than 400 cities around the world, AIRINC identified the most (and least) attractive places for today’s workforce.

Metrics 14

Metrics Comparison Globalization Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Guardian journalist James Ball, who has been closely associated with the use of data for journalism – from his work with Wikileaks to the “Offshore Leaks” investigations – recently offered an interesting analysis of these developments. These new media outlets have been received with both praise and criticism.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Media Analysis Project 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. Drones rather than people can conduct pipeline inspections and constant, real-time site surveys in oil field development. Crawling well-drilling machines drill multiple wells quickly and accurately one after another.

Technology 8

Technology Resources Industry Energy 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 13, 2016

Second, there is also a plausible narrative that the roles played by imports from Asia, as well as by offshoring and foreign outsourcing, link the two developments. The “winners” were the middle and upper classes of the relatively poor Asian countries and the global top 1%. But coincidence in time is not enough.

Globalization 8

Globalization Class Offshoring Politics 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

In the future, many commoditized products will continue to be made offshore. Our survey respondents suggest that high corporate taxes and regulatory uncertainty are the two biggest factors hindering U.S. So our study suggests that labor costs are no longer the dominant factor in determining where companies base their manufacturing.

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Now, however, automation and offshoring have eliminated many of those jobs for weavers and steelworkers and typographers; many of the old skills are obsolete. In survey after survey, over a third of managers report difficulty finding employees who have needed skills; business groups regularly decry the “skills gap.”

Technology 8

Technology Learning-by-Doing Skills Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

Forty percent of respondents to a Kauffman Foundation entrepreneur survey cited the lack of qualified workers as "the biggest obstacle standing in the way of continued growth." These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here. And numbers from Deloitte indicate that U.S. While the U.S.

Politics 10

Politics Maturity Mentor Offshoring 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. innovation, in terms of jobs, income, revenue, and taxes, has gone offshore.

Innovation 12

Innovation Supply Chain Offshoring Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. In one survey, 78% of Americans agreed that “companies should take action to address important issues facing society.” 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.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Chemicals Globalization 8

Eric Jacobson

JANUARY 16, 2011

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Mentor 50

Mentor Mission Statement Tips Learning-by-Doing 50