• 09 Mar 2015
• Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

Mitchell B. Weiss has heard it too many times: government doesn't work. Too slow. Too bureaucratic. Too burdened by procurement rules and performance measures. "Some of that is fair, and some of that is unfair, but it adds up over... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

research interests, including field studies, large-scale statistical analysis, consumer panel research, behavioral experiments and theoretical and empirical modelling. Support is available for methodological and statistical consultation, data View Details

• 21 Feb 2023
• Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

procurement side, research I’ve conducted with Kylie Hwang shows that returning citizens are more likely to become entrepreneurs. As part of a business’ diversity initiatives, hiring a vendor or supplier owned by a returning citizen can... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Francophone Africa By: Paul A. Gompers , Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of... View Details

• 02 Oct 2006
• Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

schedule would do the trick, with the bulk of the payment due when procurement budgets are replenished. The frustrated supplier also may be overlooking a fundamental set-up barrier. While top management from both firms might speak of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 14 Jun 2010
• Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact

organizations like Doctors Without Borders, responding to a disaster, will necessarily have more complex operational strategies. In order to provide shelter and food, they have to control an elaborate supply chain, from procuring tents,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Drug & Alcohol Policy | About

property or as a part of any Harvard activity are violations of HBS policy as well as the law. Possession, use, or distribution of certain non-prescription drugs, including marijuana, amphetamines, heroin, cocaine, and non-prescription synthetics; View Details

• 01 Jun 2022
• What Do You Think?

Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?

to procure an abortion, management is confronted again with the same dilemma. To make matters even more complicated, each stakeholder group contains members who both support and oppose the issue at hand. What’s the solution? When... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

• 10 Nov 2003
• Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

procurement and manufacturing) where arbitrage economies were being pursued. What's more, it was able to coordinate its widely dispersed operations by applying centrally developed learning templates. In particular, Immelt applied the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

• 01 Dec 2009
• News

One Man Crime Wave

and with a family to support, “living in a dump over a hardware store with kerosene heat,” one biographer wrote. But the Army learned that MacDonald had done well in Industrial Procurement at HBS and offered him a job. He enlisted in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Harvard Business School

Jackson, senior advisor, joined New Mountain in 2008. Jackson has over thirty years of operations and logistics management experience leading consumer product companies and retailers. Jackson was president and CEO of Global Procurement at... View Details

• 19 Nov 2012
• Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

parties) have issued executive orders requiring federal agencies to use environmentally preferable products and services whenever possible, as has the European Commission. These procurement policies are specifically aimed to "spur private... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

• 19 Mar 2019
• News

Mission Critical

Janice Whaley (GMP 15, 2013) is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of LifeShare of Oklahoma, an affiliate of a national, nonprofit organ procurement organization. In this video, she talks about the challenges facing her... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

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2.1.2 Using ChatGPT & Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tools | MBA

cite any other source. Students must contact HBS IT before procuring any generative AI tools. HBS IT will coordinate with Harvard University IT (HUIT), as the University is working to ensure that any AI tools View Details