As the economy becomes more global, how will the U.S. keep up with other nations? According to a Harvard Business School study, manufacturing will play a big role if the U.S. is going to stay competitive.
For a true resurgence in American manufacturing, there must be innovation. Instead of simply asking, "How do we bring more jobs back to America?" we should ask, "How do we create new and better jobs in America?"
The return of a few companies' manufacturing is encouraging. But the big question is: To what extent is the United States capable of taking back manufacturing on a significant scale? The challenges are great.
Mass employment is not the fundamental reason we need a healthy and vibrant manufacturing sector. Manufacturing, or rather advanced manufacturing, is essential to the U.S. economy because it is the main source of innovation and global competitiveness for the United States.
Executives at Toyota Motor Corp., Honda Motor Co. and Ford Motor Co. will tell a U.S. House panel Wednesday that the United States should do more to attract qualified workers to the auto industry.
US global competitiveness is slipping. But there is some good news: US manufacturing is in the midst of a revival. Preparing a skilled workforce for the manufacturing sector should be one of the Obama administration's top economic priorities. This can boost competitiveness.
Cheap natural gas and increasingly competitive labor costs are bringing factories and jobs back to the U.S. Eight ways to win.
After decades of sending work across the world, companies are rethinking their offshoring strategies.
Apple CEO Tim Cook says that despite the fact that the U.S. lags behind other countries in the level of skilled manufacturing processes and employees, electronics giant Apple will manufacture a line of its popular Mac computers solely in the U.S.
Willy Shih, Harvard Business School professor and chairman at QD Vision, discusses the United States manufacturing sector. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance."
The rebound of Detroit's Big Three automakers is a real-world success story, but professors from Harvard Business School think Motown's comeback deserves a place in the classroom, too.
Wanna be a rock star? Come to Detroit. That's one takeaway a group of Harvard Business School professors had Thursday night during a presentation on their year-long project on U.S. competitiveness.
If the United States economy is to restore itself to earlier levels of full employment, prosperity and financial soundness, the American manufacturing community must engage in a national effort to resurrect its global competitiveness.
If the United States economy is to restore itself to earlier levels of full employment, prosperity and financial soundness, the American manufacturing community must engage in a national effort to resurrect its global competitiveness.
The U.S. Supreme Court has until Friday to determine whether it will hear an appeal involving a class-action lawsuit against Whirlpool, the nation's largest washing machine manufacturer. Until then, the future of all manufacturing in the United States hangs in the balance.
The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation has released a report documenting "Fifty Ways to Leave Your Competitiveness Woes Behind: A National Traded Sector Competitiveness Strategy." The authors' recommendations aim to help reinvigorate US manufacturing based around the "4T's" -- technology, trade, tax and talent.
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 US manufacturing capabilities. They reveal how today's undervalued manufacturing operations often hold the seeds of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector.
The American Manufacturing Competitiveness Act directs the president to submit a plan to Congress each term to promote the growth of the nation's manufacturing sector and to post his plan on the Internet.
A new report from PWC says there is a good chance the US will see a growth in manufacturing and reshoring. But unlike most others analyses, it doesn't see rising wages in China as a key factor.
According to a new report titled "U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness Initiative: Dialogue on Next Generation Supply Networks and Logistics," manufacturing in the U.S. is growing stronger. However, maintaining and strengthening America's competitiveness in the global market will require a tremendous measure of planning, effort, and focused financial investment.
Daniel Cunningham has a billion-dollar idea for Apple: Start building the iPhone intended for American markets in the United States. The result? A billion dollars in additional profit for the company.
What policies, if any, should the United States pursue to encourage high-tech manufacturers like Apple to build their products in America rather than largely in Asia?
The migration of Japanese auto manufacturing to the United States over the last 30 years offers a case study in how the unlikeliest of transformations can unfold.
Aside from generating U.S. jobs, global trade in the clothing manufacturing industry drives competitiveness, brings value to American families, and harnesses opportunities for U.S. companies to sell their products to customers all around the world, according to the American Apparel and Footwear Association.
The problem is not outsourcing but rather it is inappropriate outsourcing--purchasing abroad products that could be made as or more cost-effectively at home. Those swell the trade deficit, which imposes great costs, and both President Obama and Governor Romney own some of that problem.
When Google Inc decided to build its Nexus Q home entertainment device in Silicon Valley rather than in China, it was not fretting about the bottom line. It was fretting about speed.
Airbus, the European airplane maker, announced Monday that it would invest $600 million over the next five years to build an assembly line here for its popular A320 single-aisle jet — its first factory in the United States.
Conference Board Chief Economist Bart van Ark analyzes how mature economies can achieve even stronger competitiveness.
The head of the world's biggest wind turbine maker, Vestas, says that the U.S. wind turbine market is likely to fall by 80 percent next year because of the expected expiration of an important tax credit.
A new report released by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation presents a strong case that manufacturing has declined more during the last decade than it did during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Lack of a public policy on manufacturing is the main obstacle to a vibrant factory sector in the United States, according to a Brookings Institution study which also dismissed the notion that high wages are frustrating growth.
Manufacturing matters to a nation’s economic prosperity, not because it is an important source of jobs (it currently represents only about 10% of US employment) but because manufacturing competence is often an integral part of innovation. By Professors Gary P. Pisano and Willy C. Shih.