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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

Likewise, companies like PCH International and Dragon Innovation are now available to manage contract manufacturing and otherwise “make manufacturing feel easy” to entrepreneurs or small companies, as noted by The Wall Street Journal’s Chris Mims last year. Such an age could be beneficial for the U.S.

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Unglamorous Freelance Manufacturers Could Boost U.S. Competitiveness

Harvard Business Review

Hospira is an advanced contract manufacturer. The United States pioneered the concept of contract manufacturing organizations in the 1980s when Japan was a fearsome economic power and Western companies were realizing they could no longer rely on the vertically integrated production philosophy that dated to Henry Ford.

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Community Financing Breathes Life into a New U.S. Manufacturing Firm

Harvard Business Review

manufacturing jobs. Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. But don't blame private equity for underinvesting in seed-stage manufacturing companies and thus failing to prepare the ground for the next Apple, Cisco, or Intel.