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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faculty Books

a start-up, discuss lean prototyping techniques for hardware, identify costly outsourcing mistakes, provide practical tips on user acquisition, offer branding guidelines, and explain how a choir of angel investors often will sing... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 30

Stanton Abstract—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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

outsourcing operation of General Electric and was the largest outsourcing operation in India. In 2005 GE decided to partially divest this subsidiary to a number of private equity players. By 2007, the firm... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • News

In Defense of Manufacturing

Keywords: Professor Gary Pisano; Manufacturing
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

Up Your Time Affluence

5, 10, 30 minutes) to accomplish small, meaningful tasks—like going for a walk around the block or checking in with a friend. Fund time Outsource tasks that you dislike, and don’t forget that you can buy together time with your partner by... View Details
  • April 2004 (Revised July 2007)
  • Case

OfficeTiger

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall
OfficeTiger was founded in late 1999 with an innovative approach to global outsourcing. The company's employees, located primarily in India, provided services for corporations, investment banks, and professional services firms throughout the United States, Europe, and... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; India
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Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall. "OfficeTiger." Harvard Business School Case 804-109, April 2004. (Revised July 2007.)
  • February 2015 (Revised May 2015)
  • Supplement

Nokia's Bridge Program: Outcome and Results (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Susan J. Winterberg
Nokia's leaders reflect on the Bridge program, lessons learned during its implementation, and the business benefits it brought to the company. Nokia's Bridge program resulted in 60% of employees knowing their next step the day they exited the firm. It also helped... View Details
Keywords: Layoffs; Plant Closure; Outplacement; Shared Value; Business or Company Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Restructuring; Employee Relationship Management; Telecommunications Industry
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Sucher, Sandra J., and Susan J. Winterberg. "Nokia's Bridge Program: Outcome and Results (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 315-003, February 2015. (Revised May 2015.)
  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

the do-it-yourself approach rather than outsourcing to a market research firm is attractive in a cost-cutting era, but you risk getting no more than what you pay for. The opinions of convenience sample of an enthusiastic online brand... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 31 Aug 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

would it cost to build/change/scale this? - is a frequent question in startup land (elsewhere too) where recruitment targets are typically behind schedule. In my case, I saw two main options to building a MVP (minimum viable product): outsource, or DIY. Sure, View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)

emulators — turned out to be just the right size. It’s not too small — we’re growing nicely — but not too big, so there aren’t a lot of other people in it. What I’d like to do over: We were very hands-on in the beginning. We might have realized sooner that we could use... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

How did the United States lose its leading edge in producing innovative goods and services? Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Shih, professor of management practice, demonstrate the disastrous consequences of years of bad View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • December 2014
  • Other Article

Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity—Online Appendix

By: Steven J. Davis, John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner and Javier Miranda
Private equity critics claim that leveraged buyouts bring huge job losses. To investigate this claim, we construct and analyze a new dataset that covers U.S. private equity transactions from 1980 to 2005. We track 3,200 target firms and their 150,000 establishments... View Details
Keywords: Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Private Equity; Performance Productivity
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Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda. "Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity—Online Appendix." American Economic Review 104, no. 12 (December 2014).
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Action Plan: Fired Up

morning one of Traeger’s big rigs was set on fire in the parking lot, apparently in protest of his decision to outsource shipping to UPS. “The culture was so toxic, I knew it would ruin me and everyone I brought into it,” he says. Andrus... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers

pioneers have moved out there, claimed the loot, and put a stake in the ground, then they want property rights," Spar observed. "They don't want to be sitting out there with shotguns; they want to be running their business or mining their gold." At that juncture, View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton; Microsoft; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

Association board in two months. Trouble was, Grinna lacked a technical background. In class discussion, students consider whether Grinna should hire local programmers or a CTO to do the work; outsource the work using a global labor... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

outsourcing and movement of labor, with its social welfare offerings. Reforms implemented during the past two decades drove down unemployment, promoted new company formation, and put the country at or near the top of international polls... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 May 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Keywords: by John Horton, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

partner. Leading firms develop an explicit strategy for collaboration that is aligned with their business objectives. While a focus on lower cost is sometimes the outcome, it is not always. A second reason that managing collaboration like production View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2000 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Nick Fiore: Healer or Hitman? (A)

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Tara Donovan
Many general managers face this predicament at one time or another: if I don't deliver the numbers, senior management won't invest in our growth. But what it takes to deliver the desired numbers may include layoffs and other undesirable solutions. Is it better to back... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Strategic Planning; Decision Choices and Conditions
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Christensen, Clayton M., and Tara Donovan. "Nick Fiore: Healer or Hitman? (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-062, October 2000. (Revised March 2007.)
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
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