Can Apple Really Bring Manufacturing Back to the U.S.?

Apple said recently that it plans to invest more than $100 million next year to bring some production of its Mac computers to the U.S.

This has the Internet in a frenzy over the possibility of bringing manufacturing jobs back to the U.S. after spending an extended time in China.

But does this signal the return of manufacturing as a whole to the United States?

WSJ reporter James R. Hagerty spoke with Willy Shih, Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, to find out more. Here’s an edited transcript of the interview.