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ISSUE DATE: February 3, 2003
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U.S. EDITION
Full Table of Contents
Cover Story
Up Front
Readers Report
Corrections & Clarifications
Books
Technology & You
Economic Viewpoint
Industry Insider
Business Outlook
News: Analysis & Commentary



In Business This Week
Washington Outlook
Sports Business
Management
The Corporation
Developments to Watch
Science & Technology
Information Technology
Finance
Mutual Fund Scoreboard
Marketing
Workplace
BusinessWeek Investor
Dividends
The Barker Portfolio
Inside Wall Street
Figures of the Week
Editorials


INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS
International -- Readers Report
International -- Asian Business
International -- European Business
International -- Finance
International -- Int'l Figures of the Week



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)


ARTICLES PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN INTERNATIONAL EDITIONS

January 27, 2003
Industrial Management: Is Mitsubishi Back From the Brink?

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