Jan W. Rivkin
There are 3 articles for this faculty member.
How Many U.S. Jobs Are 'Offshorable'?
| Published: | December 1, 2008 |
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| Feature: | Lessons from the Classroom |
Some 900 Harvard Business School students were asked to recreate a study assessing the potential "offshorability" of more than 800 occupations in the United States. Their findings: It might be a larger number than we thought.
A Replication Study of Alan Blinder's "How Many U.S. Jobs Might Be Offshorable?"
| Authors: | Troy Smith and Jan W. Rivkin |
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| Published: | July 17, 2008 |
| Paper Release Date: | June 2008 |
| Feature: | Working Papers |
The movement of business activity from developed economies to developing economies—commonly called offshoring—has become the focus of heated debates. Behind these debates lies a pivotal question of scale: How much business activity and how many jobs are at stake? Official statistics are nearly silent, and private-sector researchers vary widely in their estimates of the number of U.S. jobs that have moved offshore, will move offshore, or could move offshore. In an effort to address this gap in prior literature, Princeton economist Alan Blinder released an innovative working paper in 2007 in which he personally reviewed more than 800 occupations in the United States, assessed the "offshorability" of each, and used the evaluations to estimate the total number of U.S. jobs that might be offshorable. Here, HBS research associate Troy Smith and Professor Jan W. Rivkin describe an online exercise that allowed 152 teams of HBS MBA students, collectively, to recreate Blinder's study and to develop insights about the future of offshoring.
Published in 2007
HBS Cases: The Challenge of Managing National Security
| Q&A with: | Jan W. Rivkin |
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| Published: | January 10, 2007 |
| Feature: | Lessons from the Classroom |
What can we learn from mistakes made in managing national intelligence before 9/11? Professor Jan Rivkin discusses the difficulties of integrating a highly differentiated organization, and the dangers of overcentralizing decision making. From HBS Alumni Bulletin.
