Harvard Business Review

APRIL 16, 2012

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Barring a tax holiday, this cash is effectively "trapped" offshore. Arguments for Strategic Cash. Facilitate Acquisitions. Facilitate Investments.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 19, 2016

But there has been a shift in how these entities are governed, one that has gone unnoticed in the outcry over executive pay packages, tax inversions, offshoring, and other controversies. True enough, but trivial relative to the other costs of the finance industry, and certainly not relative to benefit to be gained.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2018

by looking back to the original offshoring frenzy which started with consumer electronics in the 1960s. While few SMMs entertain offshoring strategies, they do, increasingly, compete globally. We can trace how this happened in the U.S. By the time that substantial U.S. had already ceded electronics manufacturing to Asia.

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Innovation Offshoring Engineering Automotive 11

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Many companies look for sales ops talent outside the immediate group by encouraging job rotations with other company departments, such as finance or marketing. These leaders can structure problems, delegate work, and help process/detail people see the big picture so that everyone works toward a common goal.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 25, 2016

Services offshoring in the early 2000s broadened the attention to services. President Obama’s revival of wage insurance is not about trade or services offshoring as a cause of job loss. (When you get a new job, you lose your unemployment checks, creating a disincentive to find work.).

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Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. given the nation’s advantages in creativity, software, and cloud-based business organization, even if much of the resulting new production winds up offshore. Second, a number of important inputs have gotten cheaper.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

Highly structured work that requires lower skills and education — transactional work — is going away in many Western companies, supplanted by automation, outsourcing, and offshoring. With accelerating changes in technology, competition, regulation, and globalization, so too has the half-life of any business process.

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Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 16

Harvard Business Review

MAY 20, 2014

Guardian journalist James Ball, who has been closely associated with the use of data for journalism – from his work with Wikileaks to the “Offshore Leaks” investigations – recently offered an interesting analysis of these developments. These new media outlets have been received with both praise and criticism. Why does this matter?

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Offshoring Media Analysis Project 10

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 18, 2011

These include continued stagnation in the construction and finance industries (which employed so many people when times were better), globalization and outsourcing, and the fact that job growth almost always lags other measures of health as an economy emerges from recession. A great many reasons have been offered for the jobless recovery.

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Outsourcing Offshoring GDP Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And almost all of us have limits on our time and finances — due to kids, social organizations, work, and more — that make additional formal education impractical or impossible. Trends including AI, robotics, and offshoring mean constant shifts in the nature of work. Learning is positive for health.

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Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 30, 2015

from offshore. For example, a “mom and pop” Main Street shop has different financing needs than a high‐tech startup. A robust network of small suppliers is important to the long-term competitiveness of large U.S. corporations and for companies considering moving production back to the U.S.

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Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 1, 2017

So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free. Finally, in earnings call after earnings call, we hear CEOs describing one or two bets — at most — on growth, and devoting most of the time to showcasing the results of restructuring, offshoring and other cost-focused initiatives.

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ROE Long-term GDP Six Sigma 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 27, 2015

In an economy where traditional manufacturing jobs have gone offshore, and globalization and technology have put pressure on U.S. A supplier might need a working capital loan to finance a big order. Although it’s difficult to measure directly, entrepreneurship is understood to be a way to a middle class life.

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Entrepreneur Policies Banking Innovation 8

N2Growth Blog

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

I will onshore, offshore, outsource, insource, or execute whatever business strategy I implement without regard for diversity. Compete on your merits not why your lack thereof should be overlooked. If you’re not qualified don’t try to work around your lack of qualifications, go get the qualifications you need to compete.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Yet, the imperatives of offshore facilities and employees are — and will remain — central to American companies' international competitiveness. Offshoring and outsourcing today are like sex in the Victorian era: repressed or criticized in public discussion, much practiced in private behavior. Business Purpose.

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Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 14

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 22, 2014

company takes on the legal identity of foreign subsidiary, usually in order to reduce its taxes — has become about as controversial as corporate finance topics get. There’s $140 to $160 billion of offshore cash, $100 billion of it is in Ireland. The corporate inversion — when a U.S.

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Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8