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2008
- With weak dollar, exports skyrocket, June 27, 2008
- Red Hat sales rise; big clients renew, June 26, 2008
- What Google Earth doesn't show you, May 21, 2008
- Lenovo exploits ties to Games, May 14, 2008
- Durham tops Raleigh, list says, May 14, 2008
- Aviation company announces Kinston expansion, May 14, 2008
- Project in works for TransPark, May 13, 2008
- Morrisville tech firm's earnings are up, May 7, 2008
- Cisco's profits fall less than expected, May 7, 2008
- SAS Buys Language Software Company, March, 18, 2008
- Liquidia Gets New CEO, March, 14, 2008
- Lenovo- Building the Perfect Laptop, February 14, 2008
- Sony Ericsson Adding Jobs in RTP, February 12, 2008
- Cree Buying Co-founders Company, February 08, 2008
- SAS Revenue Tops 2 billion, February 05, 2008
- Lenovo-IBM join up on server deal, January 24, 2008
- LabCorp and Duke to work on cancer test, January 18, 2008
- Reports say VW looking at N.C., January 17, 2008
2007
- Xerium Moves Into China, December 4, 2007
- Cisco Chases Global Prospects, December 5, 2007
- Triangle Job Forecast Mixed, December 11, 2007
- SAS to Add Jobs as Rivals Merge, October 10, 2007
- Durham Medical Research Firm Doubles Size of HQ, October 2, 2007
- Ethanol Fuels Novzymes Growth, October 2, 2007
- Red Hat Targets Microsoft, October 3, 2007
- Google's Lenoir Operation Grows, September 21, 2007
- Bladen to Get Boat-Building Jobs, September 20, 2007
- Kellogg Adding Jobs in Cary, September 15, 2007
- In N.C., A Second Industrial Revolution, September 3, 2007
- Bucking the Trend, Making Fancy Jeans, August 30, 2007
- Altria to Spin Off International Unit, August 29, 2007
- Gateway deal would challenge Lenovo, August 28, 2007
- Cree will triple size of plant capacity in China, August 24, 2007
- Lenovo builds a showcase office, April 6, 2007
- Dole Food opens packaging plant, April 5, 2007
- Lack of ready sites hurts N.C., April 4, 2007
- Firm gets $450,000 in incentives for facility, 310 jobs, January 8, 2007
- Google Comes Out of the Shadows in N.C.: Search Engine Giant Has Software Operation in Chapel Hill, January 5, 2007
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Duke Corner
Duke professor comments on engineering outsourcing debate
ON THE AIR Sociology professor Gary Gereffi, director of Duke's Center on Globalization, Governance and Competitiveness, spoke on Jan. 10, 2006 on WUNC Radio's "The State of Things" about the current engineering outsourcing debate. Listen to archived audio, available http://www.wunc.org/tsot/. Listen here
Gereffi and Wadhwa lead study on engineering degree production in the US, China, and India
Professor Gereffi and Vivek Wadhwa lead a study of engineering degree production in the U.S., China and India. A summary appeared in Science, as "Engineered Numbers?" on January 6, 2006. The full report, "Framing the Engineering Outsourcing Debate: Placing the United States on a Level Playing Field with China and India," is located at the Master of Engineering and Management Program site at the Pratt Institute, Duke Univerisity.
Duke panel
"Global Outsourcing: Threat or Necessity to U.S. Competitiveness?" Duke University, April 13, 2004.
Feature Stories
IT outsourcing and North Carolina (2-part series by Anne Krishnan in Durham Herald Sun, Nov. 13-14, 2004)- Anne Krishnan, "White-collar Jobs Once Outside the Global Economy Are Heading Overseas," Herald Sun, November 13, 2004.
- Anne Krishnan, "Wipro extends outsourcing boundaries," Herald Sun, November 14, 2004.
Furniture's fading future in North Carolina (3-part series in Durham Herald Sun, Feb. 15-17, 2004)
- Anne Krishnan and Paul Bonner, "A fading future: The furniture industry - a pillar of the state's economy - may soon be gone," Herald Sun, Feb. 15, 2004.
- Anne Krishnan, "Not made in America: The industry may be upset with foreign competition, but for consumers, the bottom line is the bottom line," Herald Sun, Feb. 16, 2004.
- Anne Krishnan and Paul Bonner, ""The new labor market: Furniture industry, workers must develop new skills," Herald Sun, Feb. 17, 2004.
