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The world isn’t as flat as we’d like to think.  The technological advances and falling telecommunications costs that have made it possible for companies to employ workers around the world haven’t canceled out cultural differences that often stymie global business relationships.
HP, which first began doing business in China in the mid-1980s, tries to minimize those […]

As fuel prices rise, interest in telecommuting does as well, as I wrote just last week. My blog mentioned several companies that were adding or expanding telecommuting options for their employees in response to high prices at the pump, and also to attract talented folks who may not want to relocate for a job.
Yet some […]

Playing to the hometown crowd is a time-honored tradition in politics.
When Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were campaigning earlier this year in economically depressed Ohio, which has seen many manufacturing jobs go overseas, both talked smack about the North American Free Trade Agreement.
Similarly, during recent appearances in Silicon Valley, home to some […]

The pharmaceutical industry has been slower than other sectors to adopt outsourcing, largely due to concerns over protecting valuable intellectual property. But rising costs and shrinking margins are leading more pharma companies to do so, says IMS in a recent report.
Four of the 10 largest pharma companies announced major initiatives to outsource manufacturing activities last […]

A shrinking number of engineering graduates from American universities presents “the greatest single threat to American prosperity,” says Harvard Business School professor Michael Porter, co-author of a Competitiveness Index produced by the national Council on Competitiveness. I cited Porter’s comments in a blog about how America appears to be lagging countries like India and China […]