Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 29, 2014

Perhaps the biggest challenge for sales ops leaders is delivering a huge diversity of work, while operating in a constantly changing business and technology environment. Many companies look for sales ops talent outside the immediate group by encouraging job rotations with other company departments, such as finance or marketing.

Offshoring 11

Offshoring Outsourcing Analysis Incentives 11

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2012

That's because information technology — not just the Internet, but also mobile devices, " big data " for intensive data-crunching, and other computer hardware and software — will render even some of today's most proficient business processes obsolete by the end of the decade. I see three big opportunities: 1.

Process 16

Process Strategy Offshoring Information Technology 16

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.). What wage insurance does.

Insurance 8

Insurance Offshoring Long-term Policies 8

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. Outside of universities, ongoing learning and skill development is essential to surviving economic and technological disruption.

Education 8

Education Press Release Offshoring Learning-by-Doing 8

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.

Outsourcing 15

Outsourcing Offshoring GDP Information Technology 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

First, Kickstarter and other crowd-funding sources have opened up new options for initial finance. Says CEO Nat Mani of the Silicon Valley contract manufacturer Bestronics : “We are increasingly seeking to work with start-ups as a form of business development, but also to stay on top of new technologies.

Entrepreneur 8

Entrepreneur Contract Manufacturing Incubator Venture Capitalist 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. They provide income to their owners, but by definition are not job creators. A robust network of small suppliers is important to the long-term competitiveness of large U.S.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Rivkin Venture Capitalist Policies 8

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.

Entrepreneur 8

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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Diversity Blog Leadership Learning-by-Doing 350

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. That should be enforced.

Globalization 8

Globalization CEO System Offshoring 8

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.

Offshoring 15

Offshoring Outsourcing Supply Chain Globalization 15