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The 787's Problems Run Deeper Than Outsourcing

Harvard Business Review

The troubled plane has been grounded as global regulators investigate whether it's safe to fly. Outsourcing leads to business model risk — you open the door to outsourcing your profits (in fact, a 2001 Boeing paper that is incredibly prescient and worth the time to read identified exactly this problem). At least not yet.