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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
consumer-electronics companies started outsourcing their manufacturing to Asia. But by the 1990s, the R&D had migrated there as well. This tight connection between R&D, innovation, and production is present in sectors like biotechnology,... View Details
- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
If You're #1, Watch Out
and disks, and then to producers of chip-manufacturing technology, as each area in turn became the focus for innovation to improve performance. Old-school wisdom suggested that market leaders should "stick to their knitting" and outsource... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
1972), and David Wayne Brown ((Sanai Publishing)) The Change Maker: Preserving the Challenge of America by Al Checchi (MBA ’74) ((Open Road Integrated Media LLC)) Outsourcing Murder Maddi Davidson (MBA 1980) ((CreateSpace)) Marketing: A... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
encourage investment in the energy sector would also boost competitiveness. What are attractive investment opportunities in India? Sectors that require technical and labor-intensive input, such as software services, business process View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
supply-chain management, turning to outsourcing for almost every component used on the assembly line and relying on just-in-time deliveries several times a day. "We went through the difficult process of winnowing our major suppliers from... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
also looking for more personal attention to help them sort through that volume. Some people say that outsourcing your love life deletes romance. Not at all. The romance isn’t in the search. The romance is in the results. You offer... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
of success were no longer the same as they were a decade ago. "Asian wages are rising rapidly," Porter said. Other nations are restructuring their economies and offering an alternative to Asia as an outsourcing location. The key today is... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Examining Global Workforce Management
As executives of an international company are considering workforce reductions in Europe and South America, they are providing layoff support to employees and working with communities to create incentives for new businesses to replace lost jobs. Other companies in Hong... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
enterprise. Says Mittal of the Bharti model, “We’ll never have the domain knowledge that world leaders in IT or networks have. We’ve had to focus on what we know best: getting customers on to our network and giving them a great experience. So just like India, in Africa... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
to outsource water treatment because of its increasing complexity and strict regulatory requirements. Industrial water treatment is a capital-intensive industry, so that tends to drive it into the hands of large multinationals.” Indeed,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
multilateral agencies funded and facilitated the conversion.” Aurelio Montinola (MBA 1977) Chairman, Far Eastern University (FEU): “To assist our medical front-liners, we set up the gym of FEU Alabang with a 50-bed capacity for the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
outsource. Initially they outsourced customary household tasks, but now they are outsourcing unconventional tasks, like event help for birthdays, IKEA furniture assembly, city-to-city deliveries, and others.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
government agency bonds.) From America’s point of view, meanwhile, the best way of keeping the good times rolling in recent years has been to import cheap Chinese goods. Moreover, by outsourcing manufacturing to China, U.S. corporations... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
these ventures is competitive advantage and profit. For Israeli companies, cooperation can open up new markets, provide cost-effective outsourcing opportunities, and significantly lower the costs of production, which is especially... View Details