Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 12, 2011
Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Cheap, plentiful labor was readily available in developing countries like China, India, Mexico and Eastern Europe. dollar, rising fuel costs and the risks inherent in longer supply chains have many companies rethinking their sourcing strategies.
N2Growth Blog
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
Does the company purchase an off-the-shelf solution, utilize an ASP (Application Service Provider) solution or embark upon developing a custom application? Oh, and what about development methodology? I could go on ad-nauseum with this line of thinking, but I’m sure you get the point by now. consultants, etc.),
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Harvard Business Review
MAY 21, 2013
The death of over 800 people in the collapse of Rana Plaza , a building with garment factories in Bangladesh, spurred widespread outrage over working conditions in offshore factories. The need to improve supply chain compliance does not come from moral arguments alone; the business consequences are also increasingly unescapable.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2018
Unlike national oil companies and oil majors that typically take five to 10 years to develop conventional oil reserves, these independent and “unconventional” players have improved their drilling and fracturing technology to the point where they can respond within months to temporary spikes or dips in the market.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
That is because advanced manufacturing provides an important institutional foundation for learning and developing process skills and capabilities that are increasingly intertwined with core R&D in some of the industries most important to the country's economic future.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2012
Many of us admire Apple for its originality but tend to forget the importance of its power-supply innovations, all of which were done in China by a Taiwanese company. By shifting much of their production to Asia, Western companies have also offshored critical aspects of innovation. In photonics, offshoring has sometimes prevented U.S.
Harvard Business Review
FEBRUARY 27, 2017
In the developed world, we enjoy better medicines, connectivity, and mobility than most of us could have imagined even 20 years ago. While the last wave of globalization centered on accessing foreign markets and creating low-cost global supply chains, the next wave could follow a very different pattern. Essential background.
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