COVER STORY The New Global Job Shift The next round of globalization is sending upscale jobs offshore. They include basic research, chip design, engineering--even financial analysis. Can America lose these jobs and still prosper? Who wins? Who loses? COVER IMAGE: Is Your Job Next? GRAPHIC: A World of Outsourcing GRAPHIC: Going Abroad GRAPHIC: Globalization Goes White Collar The New Cold War at Boeing The Way, Way Back Office For India's Tech Grads, There's No Place Like Home ONLINE EXTRA: The Good Life in a Bombay Call Center ONLINE EXTRA: Perilous Currents in the Offshore Shift UP FRONT Dividends, the Ultimate Perk Desperately Seeking Google An Accounting Battle Heats Up What Charles Schwab Told George Bush A Bright Spot for Ailing CNBC Talk Show READERS REPORT Putting Managers in Their Rightful Place This Top Accountant Deserves More Credit Stereotypes, Italian-Style What Parents of Autistic Kids Really Want One Way to Repair Telecom Deregulation The Threat from Mainland China CORRECTIONS & CLARIFICATIONS "Why Europe is even more sluggish than the U.S." (Economic Viewpoint, Jan. 13, 2003) "Why ethics is also B-school business" (Management, Jan. 27, 2003) BOOKS How Eggheads Laid the Golden Egg The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List TECHNOLOGY & YOU You, Too, Can Be a Webmaster ECONOMIC VIEWPOINT Where Have All the Keynesians Gone? INDUSTRY INSIDER Free Flight: An Internet for the Skies BUSINESS OUTLOOK U.S.: Imports Get a Bigger Piece of the American Pie Australia: More Greenbacks for Kangaroo Jack NEWS: ANALYSIS & COMMENTARY Iraq: Can Bush Close the Deal? Commentary: If Deflation Sets In, the Fed Has a Problem Commentary: Deficits? Class Warfare? No, It's About Growth Reform: Business Gets Religion The Main Squeeze in the Credit Crunch The Start of a Dot-Comback? Commentary: How to Milk an Apple IN BUSINESS THIS WEEK Daniel Carp: Kodak: Not a Pretty Picture More McLawsuits? It's Still Rich Man, Poor Man Verizon Must Face the Music Triumvirate in the Sky One Less Gap at the Gap Et Cetera... Bailing Out WASHINGTON OUTLOOK Bush's Medicare Reform: A Big Pill to Swallow Title IX Rollback? Budget Games? Trial Lawyer Page-Turner SPORTS BUSINESS Commentary: Olympic Gold for Management Dysfunction MANAGEMENT Improv at the Interview THE CORPORATION Southwest Is Holding Steady ONLINE EXTRA: The Key for Southwest: "Remain Flexible" DEVELOPMENTS TO WATCH Why NASA Is Waxing Euphoric An Out-of-Body Treatment for Liver Cancer Do Your Own Blood Work, Right at Home A Herpes Remedy Grown in Algae SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY Medicine's Wild Kingdom INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Way Down--in the Valley ONLINE EXTRA: From Hot to Scorched at Commerce One FINANCE Exploring Options Commentary: Investment Banks Have a Bad Case of Immunity MUTUAL FUND SCOREBOARD Bond Funds: Don't Expect a Full-Course Meal Mutual Fund Scoreboard (.pdf) Interactive Mutual Fund Scoreboard MARKETING Call It the Pepsi Blue Generation WORKPLACE Salvation from the Shop Floor Wilbur Ross: Pulling LTV Out of the Scrap Heap BUSINESSWEEK INVESTOR Taxes Going Through the Roof? Research Revolution The Skinny on Summer Rentals The ABCs of MP3 DIVIDENDS The Stat A Dessert Oasis Grand Illusions Zap 'n' Brown THE BARKER PORTFOLIO Mr. Donaldson, Meet Gussie and Mark INSIDE WALL STREET A Way Sharper Image Painless Root Canals, Thanks to BioLase CombiMatrix Is Busy in the DNA Lab FIGURES OF THE WEEK Figures of the Week (.pdf) EDITORIALS A Global White-Collar Migration Just Go, Mr. Pitt INTERNATIONAL -- READERS REPORT European Leaders Should Focus on Their Own Countries Is BusinessWeek's Coverage "Anti-European"? Riding Eurostar Won't Break the Bank Inconsistencies in U.S. Policy The Threat from Mainland China INTERNATIONAL -- ASIAN BUSINESS Can Proton Deliver? Commentary: Korea: Roh Needs to Finish the Job Kim Began Is the Bank of Japan Barreling toward a Bailout? Under intense political pressure, its bond buying spree could make the unthinkable a reality INTERNATIONAL -- EUROPEAN BUSINESS Military Contractors: On the Defensive France's "Sarko" Is in the Spotlight The new Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy has flair -- and presidential hopes Reality TV in a Russian Boardroom INTERNATIONAL -- FINANCE Staying Afloat in Offshore Funds It was a brutal year, but BW's quarterly survey pinpoints the international funds that caught an updraft Getting Terrific Reception in Telecom INTERNATIONAL -- INT'L FIGURES OF THE WEEK International Figures of the Week (.pdf)
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