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Government Contracts
Service code (PSC) and NAICS. Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) Google-like search to help you find federal contracts. Bloomberg Terminal Type BGOV then go to Agencies Historical Spending. You can drill down by awarding agencies and... View Details
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
securing specimens from a new set of actors in the commerce in cadavers. These actors are legal entrepreneurial ventures that have been operating for more than a decade in the United States; they cater to domestic users and international ones alike. (The View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Making travel possible for people with physical challenges
destinations worldwide. AbilityTrip's mobile application supports the traveler on-site, featuring comprehensive information on five key destinations. Currently the director of ingredients procurement for Kraft Foods, Brehm devotes much of... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
negotiation requires adapting your communication acts to the most advantageous pattern. Learning The Notes Imagine you're a sales rep negotiating with the procurement manager of a professional services firm. Your company is the only... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Flying High
Jim McNerney (MBA ’75) departed GE in 2000 to become, at 3M, a chief executive for the first time. Named chairman, president, and CEO of The Boeing Company in July, McNerney is the aerospace giant’s third leader since 2003, a period during which Boeing has been... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Ready for Take-Off
marketplace matching educational institutions with student-loan lenders and lenders with secondary markets. Caroline A. Oberg (MBA '98) of ODAC, Inc., a software solution transforming the advertising media procurement process. Kristin S.... View Details
Keywords: Spingboard
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Research Brief: Cultivating Creativity through Competition
creativity-inspiring scenario? “Originality was greatest when a designer was in the presence of one or two competitors with similar performance,” Gross says. “It was time for them to go big or go home.” Gross suspects his findings might apply in View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading a battle against corruption, a force that slows economic development
fight corruption. “These citizen-driven initiatives are raising public awareness as never before and demand that CEOs pay attention,” he says. In Russia, thousands of anonymous contributors identify corrupt government procurement... View Details
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California By: Simcoe, Timothy, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—We study how government green... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Trailblazing Success with Global Reach and Impact: Scott Wallinger (AMP 82, 1979)
Forestry and attended the US Naval Officer Candidate School in Rhode Island, where I served in leadership positions and then spent three years on active duty as a ship’s navigator. In 1965, I began my forestry career as a Landowner Assistance Forester in a wood View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
Authors:Michel Anteby and Mikell Hyman Periodical:Social Science & Medicine (forthcoming) Abstract Human cadavers are crucial to medical science. While the debate on how to secure sufficient cadavers has focused primarily on donors' behaviors, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Larry Braithwaite
School of Design. "I want to see what resources may be available for cultivating strategic partnerships," Larry says. In a separate venture, Larry is developing "a procurement management business targeting the small- and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Sunny's MBA
In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile mill in Nigeria. A foreign exchange crisis was making it very... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
in perpetuity. Lyme Timber’s principals are pioneers in securing financing for conservation easements, and Hoffer helped to procure one of the first easements under the federal Forest Legacy program in Vermont, in 1995. He works at Lyme... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
blind people through a network of associated agencies, NIB had once enjoyed a relative monopoly of the federal procurement market for its SKILCRAFT® brand of office supplies and some two thousand other products and services. But that... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
GlaxoSmithKline: Sourcing Complex Professional Services Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) uses an innovative new approach to procuring outside legal counsel: it replaces relationship-based selection and law firms' traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Alumni Career Journey: Margot Zuckerman (MBA 2024) – Integrating Climate into Business (and Government) Priorities - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details
- 08 Dec 2014
- Blog Post
A New Way to Recruit
fortunate. Starved of the peer set we sometimes take for granted, most job candidates are forced to rely on google searches, and questionable third-hand accounts of how to procure and succeed at the jobs that interest them. I started... View Details
- 28 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants
mid-November, the active waiting list for a kidney stood at 72,845. Once an organ is available, there can be thousands of compatible recipients queuing up. In the time since the US Congress passed the National Organ Transplant Act in 1984, organ allocation has been... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
less well defined in advance than those of the procurement cycle; there is, therefore, the added challenge of process definition before automation can take place. At present, Internet technologies are being widely deployed to meet these... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee