Political rhetoric is ramping up regarding the evils of outsourcing and offshoring, but they are a business necessity that is here to stay, blogs Ben W. Heineman in the Harvard Business Review. Meanwhile, his fellow blogger David Simchi-Levi states the case for bringing manufacturing back to the United States.
The CEO of Ernst & Young, Jim Turley, says U.S. companies’ boards need to become more diverse, or rather, they are “too pale, too male”.