N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Unfortunately, though, it would seem that the majority of businesses, educational institutions, and other organizations have yet to recognize this truth. The colour of my skin is merely what I am, not who I am.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The sheer sprawl of these outsourced services is bewildering, even at medium-size organizations: housekeeping, food services, materials management, IT, and clinical staffing, including temporary nursing and also physician coverage for the ER, ICU and hospitalists. Contractors offer millions in concessions to keep the contracts, he said.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Earlier this fall, The New York Post ran a story guaranteed to raise hackles among parents anxious about the quality of their childrens education in the public schools. The problem runs far deeper that the prime facie question of which party should own the right to make decisions relating to a childs education.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2013

Consider the situation faced by a leading provider of outsourcing and information technology consulting services with approximately $1.5 Second, they offered educational sessions on topics such as service offerings, delivery experience, and rules of engagement between regions and business units.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

As Mary Meeker pointed out in her presentation on the state of the internet, digital is disrupting virtually every aspect of life — from photography to entertainment to education to transportation to shopping to publishing to the very concept of ownership. Nor should you outsource everything. You name it. It's a requirement.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Undergraduate and graduate students with F-1 visa status who have completed or have been pursuing their degrees for more than nine months are permitted by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to work for one year on a student visa towards getting practical training to complement their education. H-1B1 Visa.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 14, 2015

The media and technology sectors have traditionally been the biggest employers of freelancers but the good news is that “almost every industry is expanding their use of contingent workers,” says King. Sure, you may eventually be able to outsource some undesirable tasks but at least at the beginning, they will fall to you.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 28, 2015

” And as business corporations kept growing bigger during the 1960s and 1970s, the need for managers to staff their internal hierarchies led to a massive expansion in management education. Instead of seeking management jobs at GM or Eastman Kodak or Westinghouse, MBAs from elite schools went into finance and consulting.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2010

I count Five Forces of Disruption at work, with the two most powerful being the rise and fall of nations and the rise and fall of generations (the other three are global urbanization, the spread of social media technology, and planetary biostress through overpopulation and warming). Let's deal with the first two.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Too often, these tasks are pushed off to consultants. Alice Potter/Getty Images.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

economy as a whole, rather than the narrow, specific slices of technology or communication, the first decade of the 21st century did not generate expected growth in jobs, revenues, profits, or stock prices. The business press puts a tremendous focus on technology and innovation, but what it doesn't do is put it into context.

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Leading Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use technology and outsourced thinking, we diminish our ability to think for ourselves. As Harvard lecturer and global trend watcher Vikram Mansharamani shows in this eye-opening and perspective-shifting book, our complex, data-flooded world has made us ever more reliant on experts, protocols, and technology.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 4, 2017

But it’s important to understand the underlying elements of this debate: one level rests on the heavy use of H-1B visas by outsourcing firms; another rests on the disagreement over whether the program increases companies’ access to scarce skills, or merely helps them minimize costs.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2015

The dominant dismal view is that rapid technological innovation has been gobbling up jobs faster than it is creating them. Technological change is causally connected to the stagnation of median income and the growth of inequality in the United States. Two years later, this sort of pessimism is still the prevailing view.

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