The Horizons Tracker

JUNE 26, 2023

Outsized impact The study found that a small portion of the global population is responsible for a significant portion of emissions from commercial air travel, primarily from premium-class flights for wealthy, frequent travelers. The researchers created a model to predict the number of millionaires in the world by 2050 and their emissions.

Offshoring 52

Offshoring Travel Energy Policies 52

Women on Business

JUNE 23, 2011

Only 3 Fortune 500 companies have women who hold more than 40% percent of the board seats (Avon Products, Estée Lauder, and Macy’s). 6. Diamond Offshore Drilling, Houston, TX. Joy Global, Milwaukee, WI. The report also states that in 2010 the number of women on corporate boards of Fortune 500 companies dropped by 0.6%

P&L 209

P&L Company Offshoring Diversity 209

Strategy Driven

MARCH 30, 2020

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. They will continue to propel global travel and commerce. Rapidly-growing Asian economies need them to support their population and production boom. Even offshore drilling hasn’t delivered on its potential yet.

Industry 74

Industry Energy Offshoring Technology 74

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2014

Just because a company can offshore some portion of its operations doesn’t mean it should. That appears to be the case with the offshoring of research and development, according to a new paper from the Center for European Economic Research.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Innovation Restructuring Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2011

Over the last decade, offshore manufacturing seemed like a no-brainer. Falling trade barriers, inexpensive energy and low transport charges further strengthened the case for making products overseas. Offshoring isn't going away, but companies will have to be smarter about it. Outsourcing must be part of a larger global strategy.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Supply Chain Outsourcing Cost 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 13, 2013

Captive offshore operations centers — company-owned delivery units located in low-cost countries such as India and the Philippines — have come a long way. accounting, payroll) on dimensions such as cost, productivity, customer experience and ability to increase revenues, using our proprietary methodology, P360.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Cost Benchmarking Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

Recently, Thomson-Reuters published its latest list of the Top 100 Global Innovators honoring the leading organizations and companies most responsible for sizeable, influential patents worldwide. Over the next decade such engineers from emerging countries will play an increasing role in global innovation.

Engineering 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

The promise of global progress has become a reality for many — but not for all. Our global narrative of progress, the implicit case for embracing change in exchange for its fruits, is being increasingly called into question by economically marginalized groups and populist politicians across the globe.

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The global banking industry faces two opposing truths. Recent headlines have been foreboding, highlighting concerns that the retrenchment could leave the most promising engines of global economic growth sputtering. Their movements could potentially create a new class of global banking leaders for the next decade.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Offshoring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

And what drives their success with these global engineering initiatives? To find out, we developed a measure and coined the term Global Engineering Intensity (GEI) as the ratio of the headcount of R&D staff in India plus China to a company’s current annual R&D expense. They consider global engineering to be strategic.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring CTO Company Engineering 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2018

In November, United States’ crude oil production exceeded 10 million barrels per day for the first time since 1970, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). oil supply may be enough on its own to meet all of this year’s growth in global oil demand. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Price Transportation Long-term 10

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

These have multiple causes including the shift of the economy to services and information-intensive activities, productivity growth, the appearance of new products and services, demographics, and continued offshoring that now includes services ranging from call centers to medical procedures. million, were the largest in U.S.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Work across organizational and global boundaries. But organizations continue to use information technology to r edesign work across organizational and global boundaries. With accelerating changes in technology, competition, regulation, and globalization, so too has the half-life of any business process.

Process 15

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Global IT and increasing global pressures have dramatically changed the game. This shifts knowledge work from a craft into a knowledge production system. We've known for a decade or more that this shift to more production-engineered knowledge work was underway. John McCarthy of Forrester Research predicts that at least 3.3

Marketing 16

Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

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. But however well intentioned the ideas are, this is not the best use of one of the most productive workforces in the world.

Business Model 8

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Gulf region didn't destroy the company, didn't stop offshore oil drilling for very long, and didn't produce the political will to push for alternative energy sources. But the iPad represented more than just an extremely successful product launch. And, for what it symbolizes, let me add the launch of the Apple iPad in April.

Technology 14

Technology Innovation Offshoring Trends 14

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

However it is my opinion that diversity is not being addressed properly, and as a result has become one of the leading killers of corporate productivity. I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. In fact, the report points out how “U.S.

Diversity 350

Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It's a private, independent company in the Chicago area that handles biopharma production for a number of partners. Hospira began life when Abbott Laboratories spun off its production division, and it is now the world leader in the production of injectable pharmaceuticals. In photonics, offshoring has sometimes prevented U.S.

Contract Manufacturing 8

Contract Manufacturing Offshoring Supply Chain Biotechnology 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2014

Gulf Coast, an announcement by Flextronics of plans to create a $32 million product innovation center in Silicon Valley, and a decision by Airbus to build a $600 million assembly line in Alabama for its jetliners. manufacturers have also closed the gap somewhat by enhancing their productivity and their use of automation. In the U.S.,

Chemicals 8

Chemicals Automotive Supply Chain Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

But to Sweden-based SKF Group — the leading company in the $76 billion global market for ball bearing systems — these objects are heroic, destined to become the “brains of rotating machinery” by transmitting data to boost performance, reduce downtime, and prevent accidents. That lag poses dangers. Insight Center.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

The Global Digital Economy. “Now, access to tools, capital, and other supports [make] manufacturable products like the [ Oru ] collapsible kayak possible.” “Now, access to tools, capital, and other supports [make] manufacturable products like the [ Oru ] collapsible kayak possible.” Insight Center.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2016

And it has the potential to make human analysts wildly more productive. The company involved is a large, well-known technology and services vendor, with over 5 million businesses as customers, 50 major product and service categories, and hundreds of applications.

Operations 8

Operations Construction Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We used agile method to build the product using the latest open source stack and some mashups with a few online services. We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. We will pursue a global channel strategy after we complete our I18N project.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

More domestic factories would help create more balanced trade flows and a more stable global economy. But company decisions on what and where to place production facilities, while influenced by many factors, ultimately depend on the math. The auto industry is increasing production, with many OEMs increasingly viewing the U.S.

Insourcing 9

Insourcing Supply Chain Offshoring Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

M-PESA offers services that are dislocating the banking architecture of Kenya, and not even global banking giants have been spared. Increasingly, executing that capability will be dependent on a new species of talent with deep technical skills to integrate local realities into products. Think about local needs. What works in U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Industry Disintermediation Offshoring 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

But in order to create and foster more such firms, we need to recognize that today’s most cutting-edge industrial players are not monolithic; they straddle the lines between manufacturing and services, and production and innovation. They employ 12.3 million people, or 9% of total U.S. employment, and they generate $2.7

Industry 8

Industry McKinsey Engineering Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

But companies will only be able to realize productivity gains from these new operating models if they skillfully manage the soft side of their automation transformation—the people in what will be a vastly different organization. Automation will transform not just production, but operating models. Insight Center. Sponsored by SAS.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

After World War II proved him right — when not only Germany, but other economically gutted nations succumbed to nationalism and fascism — Keynes tried to design a new global financial system, creating the IMF and the World Bank. This, then, is a broken global financial system. What is common in societies with extremists on the rise?

Politics 8

Politics Offshoring Globalization Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 21, 2011

Such is the case already with many work functions, shipped offshore to less expensive theaters like the Philippines, the latest phenom in inexpensive, English-friendly workforces. And the production values of his video help sell his leadership. But already a pervasive network also lets firms ship calls to virtual call centers.

Call Center 12

Call Center Offshoring Charisma Video 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Investors, advocacy groups and companies tout its apparent advantages, including a greater sense of solidarity through peer-to-peer commerce and reduction in carbon footprint through access to products and services instead of ownership. And job losses have come in two forms: globalization that led to offshoring and technological displacement.

Offshoring 8

Offshoring Technology Constraint Transportation 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

Therefore, criminalizing many of the activities and products associated with cybercrime is likely to have more symbolic value than actual effect. There’s ample evidence that for every cybercriminal activity that gets squashed in the United States, an offshore competitor takes it — at cheaper rates. So what is the answer?

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Offshoring 8

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Carlos is responsible for more than 300 brands globally, and it’s no wonder why – he has a plan and he’s sticking to it. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. More candor can only be good for business.

Blog 360

Blog Brand Media Influence 360

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. Without those patents and the funding they attract, few start-ups can afford to hire the people they need to develop their new products, services and medical treatments for the public. million patent applications waiting for review.

Entrepreneur 15

Entrepreneur Venture Funding Policies Offshoring 15

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 19, 2012

tax laws change: Repatriating the cash from offshore would result in significant tax consequences under current U.S. It's not that the current system — the product of a political compromise in 1962 — is worth defending. We have expressed our views with Congress and the administration. based corporations, and U.S.

GDP 12

GDP How To Offshoring Incentives 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2013

You can survive a recession by making a smaller or cheaper version of your product and appealing to a downsized consumer, but it''s a lot tougher to survive after your key technology is stolen by an "advanced persistent threat" — an entity that subjects your company to advanced cyber-attacks over a period of time until a breach occurs.

CEO 8

CEO CFO Offshoring Cost 8

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Global Knowledge. By outsourcing or offshoring certain business aspects, a company will be able to learn about the global market, and in time they may even decide to make the move across the globe and open up an office abroad. It saves people in the office being disturbed throughout the day with phone calls.

Outsourcing 68

Outsourcing Offshoring Content Engineering 68

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

As advances in technology have allowed us to work in more virtual ways, we have literally and figuratively lost touch with the products we're building. Offshoring manufacturing and design. As salaries begin to level off globally, this will allow a return of manufacturing and component design to the U.S.

Engineering 10

Engineering Crisis Software Offshoring 10