by Chip Krakoff Foxconn International Holdings, the world’s largest contract manufacturer of electronic components, made notorious last year by a rash of employee suicides at its Chinese factories, recently published its half-yearly financial results, which showed that its annual labor costs per...
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Filed under: China, Brazil, Japan, Haiti, Ford, Sony, Apple, GEMs, iPad, Charles Krakoff, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Mexico, Nicaragua, HP, electronics assembly, Foxconn, Dell, Hon Hai, Burundi, Somalia, offshoring, outsourcing
One could argue that true genius in business is more about giving consumers things they don’t even know they want than about giving them what they want or say they want. I remember the first time I saw the Apple iPod. I went online immediately and ordered one, even though in those dark ages I had...
In 2003, motivated by the savagery of civil wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia, 75 countries joined a U.N.-sponsored global initiative to prevent trade in “conflict diamonds,” popularly referred to as “blood diamonds.” Conflict diamonds are gems mined in areas afflicted by armed...
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Filed under: mining, DRC, Sony, Nokia, tantalum, Democratic Republic of Congo, Apple, conflict minerals, Playstation, Sam Brownback, Zaire, coltan, Cabot Corporation, James McDermott, Samsung, Congo, RIM, Conflict Minerals Trade Act