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Vice President for Finance Ann E. Berman likes to tell a story about the beginnings of the University’s attempts to centralize purchasing. When Berman began looking at ways to cut procurement costs by utilizing the University’s aggregate purchasing power, she discovered that the various entities of the University were getting 25 different shades of crimson-colored stationary...
...When we looked at purchasing practices, we discovered lots of odd things,” Berman writes in an e-mail. Millions of dollars are saved every year on the centralized purchasing of computers alone, Berman writes...
...symbolically—than the centralization of procurement is the changes that Mass. Hall has made to budgeting. The annual tub-by-tub budget reviews, which used to be less substantive, have become an intensive, back-and-forth process between the schools and Mass. Hall under Summers, Berman writes...
...Aside from the fact that we know it will be billions, we don’t have anything more specific,” Berman said...
...Although we continue to discuss these questions, as does the Harvard Management Company Board, we have made a deliberate choice not to make decisions, but to leave them for the new CEO,” Vice President for Finance Ann E. Berman writes in an e-mail...