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Allan Brawley: Outsourcing Death and Injury to Boost the Bottom Line

2013-05-13T15:08:09Z

Today's Bangladeshi dead and injured are the equivalent of those unprotected American miners, railroad workers and mill hands of a hundred years ago.

Read more: Outsourcing, Bangladesh Factory Fire, Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Wal-Mart, Bangladesh Factory Collapse, Business News

Curtis Ellis: Pentagon Says China Military Behind Cyberattacks: Selling China the Rope to Hang Us

2013-05-07T18:02:23Z

We don't need to pivot to Asia. We need to pivot to America and tell the multinational chieftains to stop selling China the rope it's using to hang us.

Read more: Outsourcing, Free Trade, Tpp, Trans-Pacific Partnership, China, Chinese Government, US-Asia-Relationship, Politics News

American-Made Clothing Companies Find Ways To Survive

2013-05-07T08:06:40Z

Six dollars. That’s how much more an American consumer would have to pay for the typical T-shirt made in the U.S. rather than in a potentially unsaf...

Read more: Outsourcing, American Made Clothes, American Made, American Garment Industry, Made in US Clothes, Bangladesh, American Made Clothing, Bangladesh Factory, US Garment Industry, American Manufacturing, Bangladesh Factory Collapse, Business News

Donald Cohen: Boeing's Dreamliner - A Cautionary Tale for Government Outsourcers

2013-05-02T15:31:13Z

Policy makers across the country often say they want to run governments more like a business. The Dreamliners that are still on the ground should tell them something about what that really means: there's no substitute for good management and strong oversight to deliver quality services at reasonable costs.

Read more: Privatization, Outsourcing, Manufacturing, Boeing Dreamliner, Business News

Curtis Ellis: Disgraced Financier Rattner Clueless About the Economy

2013-05-02T13:32:47Z

Apparently, the nation's most prestigious newspaper feels Rattner's financial acumen and half-vast experience in manufacturing -- manufacturing kickback schemes, that is -- qualifies him to hold forth on what ails the economy.

Read more: Outsourcing, Free Trade, Wall Street, Bailout, Steve Rattner, Pensions, New York Times, Andrew Cuomo, Business News

Auditing Process Fails Mistreated Factory Workers

2013-04-26T15:19:07Z

In the wake of another deadly disaster at a major hub of garment manufacturing in Bangladesh -- this time, the collapse of a building that took the li...

Read more: Outsourcing, Global Supply Chain, Bangladesh Factory Fire, Bangladesh, Supply Chain, Bangladesh Factory, Business News

Hani Almadhoun: American Gifts, Chinese Hands

2013-04-02T17:49:21Z

I know Americans take pride in Google, Apple and similar-minded companies that rule their respective domains; but as for consumer goods, less and less are being made here. What do you consider a unique all-American gift?

Read more: Outsourcing, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, World, American Dream, Travel, Business, Gifts, China Economy, China, World News

Leila Chirayath Janah: Impact Sourcing: Making Good on the Promise of a Flat World

2013-03-20T15:08:35Z

Though emerging markets like India had seen income increases for those at the cusp of poverty, not much had changed for people at the very bottom. Impact sourcing distributes wealth using the mechanism of the market.

Read more: Outsourcing, Leila Janah, Impact Sourcing, Poverty, Samasource, International Development, Crowdsourcing, Rockefeller Foundation, Social Enterprise, Impactx, Impact, Video, Business News

Shay David: The US Employment Debate: Offshore or Onshore?

2013-03-08T11:37:33Z

If U.S. employers want American workers to have stable job opportunities, it's time to start implementing a hybrid model of offshore/onshore labor and use new technology and product development methodology in order to sustain growth in the U.S.

Read more: Outsourcing Jobs, Outsourcing, Labor, Offshoring, Jobs, Onshore, Technology, Opportunity-Working, American Manufacturing, Employment, Job Creation, Impact News

Kyle Knight: Can You Use Facebook? You've Got a Job in Kathmandu on the New Cloud Factory

2013-03-05T15:26:14Z

Can you use Facebook? Then you can work for CloudFactory Ltd., a company located half a world away in Kathmandu that may soon find itself in the unlikely role of one of Nepal's biggest private employers.

Read more: Outsourcing, Tech, Information Technology, Nepal, Start-Up, Crowdsourcing, Crowdsourcing Technology, Nepal Facebook, Business News

Jilly Gagnon: Ikea Horsmit: Some Assembly Required

2013-02-27T13:36:41Z

"We know our customers come to Ikea for the high-quality product, top-of-the-line materials, and easy and innovative relationship-strengthening at-home building process, not for horse meat."

Read more: Outsourcing, Ikea Horse Meat, Ikea Assembly Instructions, Comedy and Satire, Horse Meat Meatballs, Ikea, Humor, Satire, Horse Meat Scandal, Humor and Comedy, Building Ikea Furniture, Horse Meat, Humor and Satire, Comedy, Horse Meat Burgers, Comedy News

David Coates: Going Beyond the President's Manufacturing Strategy

2013-02-25T07:42:02Z

We need active industrial and social policy on an ambitious scale if we are ever to put this economy back onto the high-investment, high-wage growth trajectory from which the Reagan years took us away.

Read more: Deindustrialization, Outsourcing, Debt, Poverty, Economy, Wages, Manufacturing, Obama, Consumer Demand, Big Government, Stimulus, Inequality, Politics News

Rachael Chong: Why You Shouldn't Call Yourself a Social Good Designer

2013-02-04T11:19:51Z

Frog's Robert Fabricant discusses the work his firm is doing to design new solutions to improve health outcomes in the developing world, but why he never calls it "giving back."

Read more: Robert Fabricant, Frog Design, Outsourcing, Social Innovation, Health Care, Giving Back, Global Impact, Impact News

Blair Forlaw: Business and the Cacophony of the Jobs Reports

2013-02-04T12:27:49Z

We don't know how to manage the tension of a new world that is both/and, not either/or. So we sit on the sidelines with every economic announcement, cheering for the life or death of whatever data bit or trend that ignites our emotions, feeling more and more helpless and perplexed.

Read more: Jobs Report, Business, Work, Economy, Outsourcing, Leadership, Offshoring, Start-Ups, Information Age, Startups, Business News

Small Business Owner's Obamacare Fix: Turn Employees Into Corporations

2013-01-30T12:26:23Z

A San Diego-based entrepreneur has proposed a solution for small business owners who face rising payroll costs under Obamacare: Cut staff and outsourc...

Read more: Outsourcing, Technology Outsourcing, Small-Business-Obamacare, Employer-Mandate, Employer-Mandate-Advice, Small Business Outsourcing, Obamacare, Obamacare Small Business, Outsourcing Small Business, Small Business News

Bryce Maddock: Surprising Advice From An Outsourcer -- Meet Face-to-Face

2013-01-29T19:39:46Z

This was not a small expense, especially for a self-funded start-up like ours -- 12 airline tickets, 12 hotel rooms and 12 mouths to feed for over a week. But I felt this trip was essential to ensure our modern office would work effectively together.

Read more: Outsourcing, Leadership, Small Business, Innovation, Management, Business News

Obama: Foreign-Born Tech Entrepreneurs Need 'Startup Visas'

2013-01-29T17:51:00Z

President Obama on Tuesday called on Congress to create a special visa category that allows foreign-born entrepreneurs who launch successful startups ...

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Stan Sorscher: Market Discipline for the Boeing 787

2013-01-22T19:07:47Z

My career is invested in the aerospace industry, so it was very sobering to me when the FAA ordered that 787 airplanes be grounded. What lessons can we draw from the 787?

Read more: Outsourcing, 787, Global Supply Chain, Market Discipline, Boeing, Globalization, Offshoring, Boeing 787 Coordination Costs, Cost Cutting Boeing, Integrated Design Manufacturing, Business News

Sanjay Sanghoee: Dollars & Sense: How to Raise the Minimum Wage, Improve our Workforce and Cover the Cost

2013-01-22T15:12:58Z

The struggle to make ends meet and the incidental factors that accompany living in poverty conditions, such as sleep deprivation, poor health care, long commutes to work, lack of free time to further education, etc. -- all make it nearly impossible for such people to train themselves.

Read more: Outsourcing, Tax Cuts, Offshoring, Offshore Tax Havens, Minimum Wage, Poverty, Tax Credits, Economic Inequality, Income Inequality, Wealth Gap, Job Training, Business News

Security Check Finds U.S. Employee Outsourced Job To China In Order To Surf Web All Day

2013-01-16T16:31:25Z

A crafty developer reportedly figured how to get paid to sit and watch cat videos for a good chunk of the day.

It's a story almost too good to be t...

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Christine Bronstein: Why Women Should Think Like Mark Zuckerberg

2013-01-16T12:08:52Z

Not up for shelling out $100 to message Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg? Social innovator and marketing thought leader Ekaterina Walter has a much cheaper way to pick the brain of the famed boy wonder.

Read more: Facebook Privacy, Ekaterina Walter, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, Working Mothers, Working Moms, Outsourcing, Think Like Zuck, Business Success, Running Your Own Business, How to Run a Business, Career Advice, Work-Life Balance, Women News

Was Romney Right About Jeep?

2013-01-14T12:58:16Z

DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler's Jeep brand is in talks to build some of its vehicles in China for that market as the automaker looks to build on growing i...

Read more: Outsourcing, Jeep China, Outsourcing to China, Cars, Jeep, Car Industry, Auto Industry, China, Ap, Jeep Outsourcing, Business News

Jane White: New Year's Resolution: Six Reasons to Rout the Republican Redcoats

2012-12-31T11:39:38Z

Abraham Lincoln would not be the only one turning over in his grave at the disgraceful state of the Republican party 147 years after he left office -- other dead progressive Republican leaders would, as well.

Read more: Outsourcing, Redistricting, Dwight Eisenhower, Right to Work, Jacob Javits, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Rockefeller, Corporate Taxes, K Street, Politics News

Michelle Chen: China Labor Watchdogs Expose Dark Side of Global Toy Empire

2012-12-18T12:34:00Z

Despite the occasional factory fire or sweatshop media exposé, American consumers have largely inured themselves to the status quo of exploiting the Global South as our overseas workshop for cheap clothes, toys and gadgets.

Read more: Toys, Walmart, Global Economy, Shopping, Globalization, China, Wal-Mart, Outsourcing, Labor, Mattel, Apple, Work, Bangladesh, Christmas, Disney, Sweatshops, China Labor Watch, Workplace Safety, Toy Manufacture, World News

Frances Causey: What Would FDR Do?

2012-12-17T15:44:28Z

If FDR were president today, my guess is he would not meet in secret with the House speaker to cut a backroom deal that would further hammer the 99 percent by reducing Medicare and Social Security benefits. Instead, FDR would call it like he saw it.

Read more: 99 Percent, Outsourcing, Fiscal Cliff, General Electric, Heist Documentary, Franklin Roosevelt, Corporations, Politics News