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  • November 2014
  • Article

Government Green Procurement Spillovers: Evidence from Municipal Building Policies in California

By: Timothy Simcoe and Michael W. Toffel
We study how government green procurement policies influence private-sector demand for similar products. Specifically, we measure the impact of municipal policies requiring governments to construct green buildings on private-sector adoption of the U.S. Green Building... View Details
Keywords: Public Procurement; Green Building; Quality Certification; Environmental Policy; Buildings and Facilities; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Government and Politics; Green Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; California
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  • May 1992
  • Article

Coordination in Split-Award Auctions

By: James J. Anton and Dennis Yao
We analyze split award procurement auctions in which a buyer divides full production between two suppliers or awards all production to a single supplier, and suppliers have private cost information. An intriguing feature of split awards is that the equilibrium bids are... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain Management; Balance and Stability; Cost; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Production; Five Forces Framework; Supply and Industry; Situation or Environment; Information; Manufacturing Industry
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  • September 2012
  • Case

SCMS: Battling HIV/AIDS in Africa

By: Ananth Raman, Noel Watson, Santiago Kraiselburd and Emmanuel Akili
In 2005, USAID and the U.S. President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), created the Supply Chain Management System (SCMS) to procure and distribute essential medicines and supplies; provide technical assistance to transform existing supply chains; and... View Details
Keywords: HIV; AIDS; Procurement Coordination; Developing Countries; Healthcare; Public Health; Ethiopia; Supply Systems For Healthcare Delivery In Developing Countries; Healthcare Logistics Industry; Health Disorders; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Supply Chain Management; Logistics; Developing Countries and Economies; Programs; Transition; Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Ethiopia; Africa
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The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?

The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details

  • 18 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 18

results show that the opportunity to avoid being submitted to regulation produces more unethical conduct than situations in which regulation is either exogenously imposed or entirely absent. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-029.pdf Public View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Build It, Buy It, or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services

By: Alvin J. Silk and Marta M. Stiglin
This paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build and buy to... View Details
Keywords: Operations; Advertising; Advertising Industry
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  • May 2024 (Revised June 2024)
  • Case

Together for Sustainability

By: Ranjay Gulati, David Shin and Emily Tedards
This case documents the origin and development of Together for Sustainability (TfS), a chemical industry initiative dedicated to raising sustainability standards throughout the industry’s supply chains. In 2011, six Chief Procurement Officers (CPOs) from some of the... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Standards; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Accountability; Chemical Industry
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Build It, Buy It or Both? Rethinking the Sourcing of Advertising Services

By: Alvin J. Silk and Marta M. Stiglin
This paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build and buy to... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Advertising
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  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

paper provides an update on the current state of in-house agencies. Whereas traditional consideration of internalizing advertising services was framed as a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build and buy to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

industry-backed codes seem to be less stringent than NGO-backed codes. And so it is challenging for consumers and even company procurement managers to untangle all of this. And that's among the common codes of conduct: There are plenty of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value in Your Business Ecosystem

Fundamentally, they aim to improve the overall health of their ecosystems by providing a stable and predictable set of common assets—think of Wal-Mart's procurement system and Microsoft's Windows operating system and tools—that other... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

procurement can be streamlined to avoid inadequate specification of the project’s scope and/or a bad selection process. For example, Senegal’s Infrastructure Council vets projects, the World Bank and other development finance institutions... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

government procurement policies can accelerate the diffusion of new environmental standards that require coordinated complementary investments by various types of private adopters. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Nov 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Best Practices of Global Innovators

orchestrates, manages, and coordinates its network of hundreds of global partners." It just isn't possible for one firm to master all these skills. MacCormack and his team (Theodore Forbath, Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher, all of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

and cultural assets, as well as skills and ideologies across borders. The chapter argues that capitalism proved much better than political leaders in building institutions that coordinated activities across borders, but also points to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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