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Insourcing at GE: The Real Story

Harvard Business Review

In the early 2000s, as part of a huge offshoring trend in the business economy, GE shifted manufacturing to suppliers such as Samsung and LG. Then at the end of 2007 the housing market crashed. We can have engineering work more closely with production. But these suppliers became competitors and ever-harder to work with.