Harvard Business Review

JUNE 4, 2015

I and others believe that the recession may have precipitated or accelerated certain long-term changes in employment patterns that will mean slower job creation, lower total returns to labor, higher skill requirements, and issues with income inequality. Many were due to increased imports and offshoring to low-cost locations.

Technology 8

Technology Offshoring Marketing Health Care 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Not all labor market indicators are strong, however: wages remain stagnant, long-term unemployment remains high, and the labor force participation rate is low, by historical standards. Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 8, 2013

We estimate that tens of thousands of engineers and scientists working for top innovators are actually located in their offshore technical centers in the BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, and China); these are often called "captive" R&D centers or offshore R&D locations. Offshore Outsourced Product Development.

Engineering 8

Engineering Globalization Innovation Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

As long as the CFO can stipulate that the company does not intend to repatriate the cash, it avoids the incremental tax that will be levied due to the territorial system of U.S. Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Much of the strategic cash is typically held outside the United States.

Company 14

Company Cost of Capital Finance Long-term 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Because of advancing technology, disappearing cultural barriers, and greater business expertise among offshore talent, many companies are using offshore partners for both types of work, allowing them to source the best expertise while reducing long-term costs.

Offshoring 10

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 10

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Executives must think carefully about how to best match people and machines, bearing in mind that many of the decisions they make today will have a long-tail effect on workforce composition, productivity, and profits for years to come. Think both short term and long term. Take a full end-to-end view.

Early Adopters 8

Early Adopters Short-term Long-term Compliance 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Adding legitimacy to this skepticism are new technologies that enable automation of routine transactions, offshoring and shared service organizations that specialize in managing many tactical elements of HR. This is a role that cannot be automated, shared as a service, offshored or outsourced.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Fixed Costs Outsourcing Construction 15

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. In the search for blame, many commentators point to the absence of building codes, lack of workplace safety rules, and the greed of US corporations.

Business Model 8

Business Model Supply Chain Compliance Disaggregation 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2011

Mere recovery probably won't do much to derail this trend, because the rise of McJobs has deeper causes: offshoring, skills gaps, undereducation, regulatory deficits, our own bottomless appetite for McStuff. That's not just grossly unfair in common sense terms, it's a recipe for a society coming apart at the seams. Insecurity.

GDP 19

GDP Hypercompetition Offshoring Long-term 19

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 2, 2012

Located at the home office, she developed long-term relationship with her clients. Niche professional expertise is less likely to be reengineered and sent to an offshore or low-cost provider. She was a training manager for a large corporation, advising middle and senior managers on career development.

Marketing 16

Marketing CPA Outsourcing Forrester 16

Rajesh Setty

DECEMBER 4, 2008

We had offshored our development team but when we did a rightshoring exercise, we found that a dual-shore approach works better. In terms of exit strategy , our goal is an IPO but at the right price and the right partner, we won’t exclude the acquisition option. You can say that we are sort of using cloud computing a bit.

Blue Ocean Strategy 30

Blue Ocean Strategy CPM Licensing Open-book 30

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 24, 2012

On one hand, regardless of current economic concerns, emerging markets are where long-term growth opportunities lie. Lending from Europe remained flat, and the gap was filled from elsewhere — largely Asian offshore centers and the U.K. The global banking industry faces two opposing truths. Filling the Gap.

Banking 8

Banking Globalization Offshoring Maturity 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 23, 2015

Yet even though SKF has a century-long track record of keeping the wheels of industry turning, this new vision of bearings with brains by no means assures that SKF will prosper in the changeover in technology represented by the internet of things, in which every conceivable object can become a node on the net.

Industry 8

Industry System Business Model B2C 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

As Janet Yellen pointed out in a speech last year, “the opportunity to build a business has long been an important part of the American Dream.” A robust network of small suppliers is important to the long-term competitiveness of large U.S. from offshore.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

This approach was credible as long as economic inequality was kept within reasonable bounds. Our research shows that many companies are increasingly geared toward the short term. Such companies tend to generate less growth and value in the long run. What’s required for a new narrative to be credible?

Globalization 8

Globalization Supply Chain Human Capital Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2012

These factors include China's rapidly rising labor costs, which we discussed in an earlier HBR blog ; the increased value of the yuan; the challenge of managing long-distance supply chains; the quality control concerns that continue to haunt many manufacturers that have offshored production; and the significantly higher productivity of U.S.

Insourcing 9

Insourcing Supply Chain Offshoring Apparel 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2018

Amelie, a reservoir engineer from PET, explained how she was harassed while working offshore and how her team’s peer support helped her deal with this unpleasant situation: One of my colleagues noticed the fact that I was quite disturbed and cold with this guy we were working with, and he asked me why.

Engineering 10

Engineering Management Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 20, 2015

In terms of the competition between Russia and the United States, the homes of the biggest criminal hosts, Russia is winning bigtime. There’s ample evidence that for every cybercriminal activity that gets squashed in the United States, an offshore competitor takes it — at cheaper rates.

Proposal 8

Proposal GDP Cooper Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

Americans have long believed in the importance of entrepreneurs to the health of our economy. In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. A Main Street small business might require a term loan from a bank to buy a piece of equipment.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 12, 2014

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman writes in his book The Age of Diminishing Expectations : “Productivity isn’t everything, but in the long run it is almost everything. Shifting work to places where labor is cheaper is one way to improve this in the short term.

Offshoring 9

Offshoring Outsourcing Technology Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. See More Videos > See More Videos > To elaborate, a company’s intrinsic equity value reflects the long-term cash flows that shareholders expect to receive over time, discounted at the appropriate risk-adjusted cost of equity capital.

ROE 14

ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

firms have long had a simple mantra: “Invent here, manufacture there.” by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. Jetta Productions/Getty Images. ” But, increasingly, those same companies are now choosing to invent as well as manufacture abroad.

Innovation 10

Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Already, in his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom Friedman had declared that “there is one and only one social responsibility of business–to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Bureaucracy Short-term Agility 12

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

They used smart cards to turn the process of offshore excursions into one as simple as walking into an office building. Digital density will continue to grow exponentially in the near and long term. If these aspects are not part of your company's current digital strategies, then it may be time to consider a different approach.

IT Strategy 9

IT Strategy Strategy Offshoring Class 9

The Horizons Tracker

AUGUST 1, 2019

This resulted in a boost for the high-skilled workers who tend to work alongside such technology, but no such dividend for the lower-skilled workers whose jobs had ultimately been offshored in the first place. There’s no real evidence that tariffs help the lot of those whose low-skilled work was originally offshored.

Offshoring 67

Offshoring Short-term Long-term Policies 67

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 21, 2017

Given that the offshore stash is believed to total more than $2 trillion, advocates for a tax holiday claim that this influx will encourage companies to invest in their businesses, thereby creating millions of new jobs. Customers, employees, and suppliers with long-term relationships with the company benefit as well.

EPS 8

EPS Company Offshoring Price 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 6, 2017

In terms of the weighting, AIRINC found that a 50:50 split didn’t allow for cities with higher financial rankings to rise significantly in the list. At the same time, an offshore location like the Cayman Islands has a lower lifestyle ranking due to island-related restrictions (e.g.

Metrics 14

Metrics Comparison Globalization Cost 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

finally got into offshore wind near Rhode Island. Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock — the world’s largest asset owner — followed up his 2015 letter to S&P 500 CEOs with another treatise against short-term focus. In a subtle tipping point, the total global generating capacity from renewables passed coal this year.

Energy 8

Energy Banking Globalization Chemicals 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 19, 2017

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. The successful ones have, at least. Donald Trump won the U.S. Economic nationalism is resurgent in Europe as well.

Politics 10

Politics Supply Chain Offshoring Globalization 10