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Selling Products Is Good. Selling Projects Can Be Even Better

Harvard Business Review

Selling products limits the revenues you can make from clients: Unless you are innovating and continually updating your product offering, customer attrition tends to be high, and incentivizing repurchases can be hard. This removes any opportunity for steady, high margins over the long term. It now has around 10,000 operating projects.

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Which U.S. Companies Are Doing the Most R&D in China and India?

Harvard Business Review

To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. Which companies allocate the highest proportion of that budget to engineering in China and India, specifically?