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

Harvard Business Review

Trouble is, two recessions in 10 years have cut the capital fuel supply to the tech-company-creation engine. Combine that with the offshoring mania among established manufacturers, and you've got a full-blown crisis. The result has been the loss of millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs.

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What We Lose When Giant Investment Funds Run All Our Companies

Harvard Business Review

The publicly traded, limited liability company is the engine of the modern western economy. But there has been a shift in how these entities are governed, one that has gone unnoticed in the outcry over executive pay packages, tax inversions, offshoring, and other controversies. Its investments support our prosperity.

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Entrepreneurs Take On Manufacturing

Harvard Business Review

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. given the nation’s advantages in creativity, software, and cloud-based business organization, even if much of the resulting new production winds up offshore. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Why Outsourcing Can Save Your Business

Strategy Driven

Things such as administration, finance and statistics can be outsourced by a business if they do not want to complete these tasks themselves. Search engine optimisation is a must for any company who has a website. If a company is on a budget it can be the difference between falling out of profit and growing in profit. Mundane Tasks.

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How the U.S. Can Rebuild Its Capacity to Innovate

Harvard Business Review

It’s a lesson for countries around the world: Once manufacturing bids farewell, engineering and production know-how depart as well, and innovation activities eventually follow. by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. We can trace how this happened in the U.S.

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Stop Focusing on Profitability and Go for Growth

Harvard Business Review

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Finally, in earnings call after earnings call, we hear CEOs describing one or two bets — at most — on growth, and devoting most of the time to showcasing the results of restructuring, offshoring and other cost-focused initiatives.

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