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. First, many of the Top Innovators employ engineers in emerging countries such as India and China. Here are three main reasons why.

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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. Technology to the rescue?

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 29, 2015

Today’s great paradox is that we feel the impact of technology everywhere – in our cars, our phones, the supermarket, the doctor’s office – but not in our paychecks. We work differently, communicate with each other differently, create differently, and entertain ourselves differently, all thanks to new technology.

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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 production, up from a mere 10% just seven years ago in 2011. hbr staff/bettmann/Getty Images. Analysts have predicted that U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 29, 2013

Technological improvements in health care have given us the quality of life we enjoy today. Enter Henry Ford, who revolutionized the industry with his manufacturing innovations , lowering the price of cars from $2,000 in 1908 to just $260 by 1925 — an 87% reduction! But the most innovative Indian hospitals are doing much more.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 28, 2016

Technology has emerged as a competitive weapon in driving operational excellence and superior service quality. Because banking has since become a technology business, the future is for entities that offer top-grade personalized banking services to customers, largely driven by low-cost automation. Innovate ferociously.

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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. Have a great Thanksgiving Sir. LeRoyD Amen!

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Steel did in an earlier era of manufacturing, Aquion and innovative firms like it are spearheading economic and employment growth across the country. This is the kind of technology—and the type of firm—that will make renewable energy more efficient and more cost-effective. competitiveness and growth in the 21 st century.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Today, innovations in digitization and robotization are quickly laying the foundation for another disruptive corporate transformation. Harnessing the power of machine learning and other technologies. Freeways full of driverless cars and beer trucks are still far off, because of technological and regulatory limitations.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This narrative has rested on three propositions: that globalization is a major driver of growth and prosperity; that technological progress enriches our lives; and that shareholder returns reflect businesses’ contributions to societal progress. The same goes for technology.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

These are companies like Hooven-Dayton in Miamisburg, Ohio which provides labels for Tide and Mr. Clean products. corporations and for companies considering moving production back to the U.S. from offshore. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

“Now, access to tools, capital, and other supports [make] manufacturable products like the [ Oru ] collapsible kayak possible.” For his part, Mims imagines an age in which “new products — actual, physical products — will go from idea to store shelves in a matter of months.”

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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.

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N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

There was a lot more common thinking than critical, innovative thinking. Social Media is not about technology – it’s about communication. Following are a few of the thoughts David shared in closing out Day 1: Start-ups begin here, but are scaling offshore. When it comes to social media fail fast and fail smart.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2011

President, you correctly noted that, "The first step in winning the future is encouraging American innovation." Here, too, start-ups are the driving engine of our nation's global innovation leadership. In other words, Mr. President, everything depends upon start-ups: Job creation. million patent applications waiting for review.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

In an era of physical innovation, people understood instinctively how things worked, even if they weren't familiar with the underlying theories of physics. 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.

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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.

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

We see ourselves as risk-takers and innovators. In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. The Playbook is a policy menu, based around three core needs of small businesses: access to capital; people and skills; and innovation ecosystems.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Jetta Productions/Getty Images. From automotive to semiconductors to pharma to clean energy , America’s innovation centers have shifted east, offering growing evidence that the U.S. by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. It’s that the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 2, 2017

In oil and gas, underwater robots fix gas pipelines off the coast and drones inspect offshore oil rigs. These are just some of the many ways technology is transforming the demand and supply of resources. Technology is enabling people to use energy more efficiently in their homes, offices, and factories.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A vast ideological gap on macro-economic policy divides Washington and much of the nation, but there is almost universal agreement on one solution: innovation. Innovation is now perceived as a panacea for job creation, income generation, economic growth, dollar strength, and the revival of the U.S. as global hegemon.

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Physical product customizers such as Nike iD and Moto Maker have earned strong customer followings, but they’re still closer to “designed for me” than the “designed by me” experience we’ve been promised. The first manufacturers to offer something similar in a physical product will almost certainly transform their categories.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2015

Few of these rules were made with computing, or even technology, in mind. VCs provide the funds that fuel every significant innovation in the region and beyond. And also seeing the need for a frictionless market within the EU for the free flow of information products and services between member nations—something U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

These are not jobs that can be offshored — they must be filled right here. The program is a boon to manufacturers seeking talent they can successfully slip into openings without incurring productivity losses associated with gaps in human capital. While the U.S. Strategic partnerships can help meet this demand. We need momentum.

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The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

The analysis found that high levels of automation in a country were positively associated with attempts to reshore production that had previously been moved abroad, but the logic behind this decision was not to give that work to humans, but to automate the work instead. Bringing work home.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. They aren’t planning to do an inversion, but on the other hand after tax they’re earning less than 1% on that money, compared to over 30% when they invest it in new products and R&D and innovation. If you make products in the U.S.,

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It was a productive 12 months, to say the least. Renewables have been trouncing fossil fuels for a few years as the costs of the newer technologies have dropped remarkably fast. finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. days of innovation). Debates about climate change melted away. Then came 2016.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Over the last two decades, business leaders in the West have been responding to risks posed by profound changes in the global economy, in technology, and in demographics. They have used advances in information technology, which might have destroyed their businesses, to improve their offerings and cut their cost of production.

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