Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2017

Galbraith’s answer was that they needed to be so because technology required large amounts of capital to be deployed — think your large auto assembly, oil refineries, and chemical plants. The effect of that was to break up the bureaucracy through outsourcing (facilitated by globalization). What did that mean?

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Power Bureaucracy Advertising Open-book 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Number two: We now have a number of very competent independent food testing companies, such as the NutriSciences Company, which I recently wrote a case study about, to whom you can outsource your requirements. You should use those. Shouldn’t advancing technologies, in agriculture and operations, also be able to help here?

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Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 23, 2012

Outsource the boring, repetitive slide-making. Note: I left out the sense of taste, which could be splendid at Nestle, less so at Dow Chemical.). Have 15-minute standup meetings instead of those insufferable hour-long snooze-fests. Kill unnecessary document preparation. One page will do for most internal meetings.

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ROE Gordon Incubator Chemicals 13

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 28, 2016

For instance, Triodos Sustainable Trade Fund provides finance to farmers whose cultivation practices are more sustainable in places like the Palestine Territories, Thailand, and the Dominican Republic, avoiding traditional chemically-intensive fertilizer in delicate ecosystems.

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Class Microfinance Supply Chain Education 8

Strategy Driven

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

They can hire an individual to manage it, they can outsource the office management, they could sign up with a software service platform like Microsoft to run it for them. Further, many problems are common across industries and a solution that works for, say, the chemicals industry may be surprisingly relevant in a financial services context.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2017

In the brain, a neuron is a cell that transmits electrical or chemical information. And there will be new service-based companies that will outsource labeling to low-cost countries, as well as create labeled data through synthetic means. When connected with other neurons, it forms a neural network.

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Technology Software Learning-by-Doing Training 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 4, 2017

But since outsourcing has become an increasingly common approach to cutting costs, many producers now rely heavily on globally dispersed supply chains. Manufacturing used to be highly vertically integrated in the U.S. For example, Apple works with at least 200 suppliers and 242 smelters and refineries across the world.

Supply Chain 9

Supply Chain Productivity Products Company 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2015

This is acutely the case when companies “outsource” political contributions by funding trade associations, politically active nonprofit organizations, and other groups that do not disclose their donors. Too typical, however, is the situation described by a senior executive at a chemical company.

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