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- 14 Mar 2021
- News
Kominers’s Conundrums: Procuring Perfect Pies for Pi Day
- 30 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Saga Shows Cracks in Procurement System: Alexander Harstrick
- 18 Aug 2020
- News
Vaccines Use Bizarre Stuff. We Need a Supply Chain Now.
- 20 Jul 2015
- News
Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
largest in Africa second to South Africa. Senegal was one of the first African countries to come up with a resiliency plan. It included all the necessary health support for patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
in three years’ time. One is on the procurement side, where we’re applying global procurement practices and integrating all parts of the business. The second is what we call Asset Optimization: getting the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
Ernst & Young, or McKinsey should all get a shot at becoming candidates to run cities and districts with a history of corruption. Entities that are experts at municipal accounting, consulting to foreign governments, or providing services like View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
patient treatment and contact tracing, including procurement of all supplies of oxygen and medical equipment; support for the private sector and employment; distribution of food kits and food stamps to more than 1 million households; and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
Boris Groysberg addresses attendees of the HBS Executive Education program Women on Boards. (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Last year, Paula Davila Martinez (GMP 18, 2015) decided she wanted to have an impact beyond her corporate role as a vice president and chief View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
supplies ebbed and flowed, as did the electricity needed to refrigerate it. “We had to forecast our needs for certain commodities and procure accordingly,” he observes with a laugh. Kim’s milk-procurement issues serve as a metaphor for... View Details