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Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
Pisano Gary P
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Manufacturing's central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years--even decades--in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in ... Read more
Manufacturing's central role in global innovation Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years--even decades--in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those choices: in many cases, once manufacturing capabilities go away, so does much of the ability to innovate and compete. Manufacturing, it turns out, really matters in an innovation-driven economy. In Producing Prosperity, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih show the disastrous consequences of years of poor sourcing decisions and underinvestment in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Harvard Business Review Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9781422162682
SKU
V9781422162682
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About Pisano Gary P
Gary P. Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he has been on the faculty since 1988. His research has focused on the management of innovation, technology and competitive strategy, and outsourcing. Willy C. Shih is a professor of management practice in the Technology and Operations Management unit at Harvard ... Read more
Reviews for Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
"In their book Producing Prosperity: Why America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance, Harvard Business School professors Gary Pisano and Willy Shih cut through the confusion. In just 138 pages
a perfect read for the Washington to New York Acela
they offer the most compelling case I have read for why making things matters, even if it will produce very few manufacturing jobs in ... Read more
a perfect read for the Washington to New York Acela
they offer the most compelling case I have read for why making things matters, even if it will produce very few manufacturing jobs in ... Read more