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- July 2014
- Article
Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India
By: Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr and Christopher Stanton
This study examines the role of the Indian diaspora in the outsourcing of work to India. Our data are taken from oDesk, the world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name... View Details
Keywords: Diaspora; Outsourcing; oDesk; Networks; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Diasporas; Internet and the Web; Ethnicity; Service Industry; South Asia; India
Ghani, Ejaz, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton. "Diasporas and Outsourcing: Evidence from oDesk and India." Management Science 60, no. 7 (July 2014): 1677–1697.
- April 1993 (Revised June 1993)
- Supplement
General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (D)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
Designed to be handed out after discussion of the (C) case. View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Katherine Seger. "General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 193-147, April 1993. (Revised June 1993.)
- October 1992
- Supplement
Eastman Kodak Co.: Perspectives on Outsourcing
Applegate, Lynda M. "Eastman Kodak Co.: Perspectives on Outsourcing." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 193-506, October 1992.
- October 2006 (Revised April 2011)
- Teaching Note
Strategic Outsourcing at Bharti Airtel Limited (TN)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching Note to (107-003) and (107-004). View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing
- winter 1995
- Article
How to Manage an IT Outsourcing Alliance
By: F. W. McFarlan and R. L. Nolan
McFarlan, F. W., and R. L. Nolan. "How to Manage an IT Outsourcing Alliance." MIT Sloan Management Review 36, no. 2 (winter 1995): 9–24.
- August 1995
- Teaching Note
Xerox: Outsourcing Global Information Technology Resources TN
By: Richard L. Nolan
Teaching Note for (9-195-158). View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes
wealthy shifted how they categorize their income to take advantage of the tax cuts, widening the income gap in the process. The paper uses state rather than federal data because corporate tax cuts happen much more frequently at the state... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- February 1996 (Revised May 2002)
- Teaching Note
Xerox: Outsourcing Global Information Technology Resources TN
Teaching Note for (9-195-158). View Details
- May 2004 (Revised September 2004)
- Background Note
Outsourcing IT: The Global Landscape in 2004
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
Profiles the history and context of outsourcing, with particular focus on information technology. View Details
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Brian DeLacey. "Outsourcing IT: The Global Landscape in 2004." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-104, May 2004. (Revised September 2004.)
- November 1990 (Revised March 1994)
- Supplement
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Kodak Outsourcing Agreement (B)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Herminia M. Ibarra
Describes "Frantic Friday," the day the Digital-Kodak contract was scheduled to be signed. Designed to be handed out in class. View Details
Applegate, Lynda M., and Herminia M. Ibarra. "Digital Equipment Corp.: The Kodak Outsourcing Agreement (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 191-040, November 1990. (Revised March 1994.)
- January 1996 (Revised September 2001)
- Teaching Note
General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function Series TN
Teaching Note for (9-193-144), (9-193-145), and (9-193-178). View Details
- 2020
- Article
Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study immigrant entrepreneurship in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners. First-generation immigrants create about 25% of new firms in America, but this share exceeds 40% in some states. Immigrant-owned firms tend to create fewer jobs than native-owned... View Details
Keywords: Job Creation; Employee Benefits; Owner Demographics; Exports; Outsourcing; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Ownership; Demographics; Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012." Art. 103918. Research Policy 49, no. 3 (April 2020).
- July 2006 (Revised December 2007)
- Supplement
Strategic Outsourcing at Bharti Airtel Limited: One Year Later.
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan and Michele Jurgens
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, V.G. Narayanan, and Michele Jurgens. "Strategic Outsourcing at Bharti Airtel Limited: One Year Later." Harvard Business School Supplement 107-004, July 2006. (Revised December 2007.)
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
by advances in communications and information technology and dramatic improvement in global logistics, fueled the outsourcing of jobs to emerging... View Details
- July–August 2023
- Article
Case Study: How Should a Start-Up Cut Its Burn Rate?
By: Nitin Nohria, Katie Josephson, Sophia Wronsky and Elizabeth Rha
Tyler Smith, the founder and CEO of the enterprise software firm Puck.io, is facing a hard decision. Just three months earlier the company laid off 20% of its employees to reduce its burn rate amid growing economic uncertainty and a suddenly unattractive funding... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business or Company Management; Business Startups
Nohria, Nitin, Katie Josephson, Sophia Wronsky, and Elizabeth Rha. "Case Study: How Should a Start-Up Cut Its Burn Rate?" Harvard Business Review 101, no. 4 (July–August 2023): 144–149.
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
benefits in June, just one found a job by early September, research shows. Pulling the COVID-19-related benefits early created fewer jobs than many government officials predicted. Meanwhile, many people—both... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance
Professor of Business Administration at HBS; Giada Di Stefano, an assistant professor at HEC Paris; and Bradley Staats, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School. Pausing to reflect on our... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
as Lyft, Postmates, Upwork, TaskRabbit, and scores of others like them—connect large numbers of independent contractors providing services with customers seeking those services. The companies profit by taking a View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
Over the past few decades, information technology jobs worked their way into the popular imagination as among the most stable, fast-rising, and lucrative ways to make a living, bolstered in the 1990s by the... View Details