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Under a U.S. threat to impose trade sanctions, Japan agreed to make its government-contract construction market more open to foreign firms by adopting a competitive bidding system and promising to crack down on corruption in the industry. In response, the U.S. postponed the deadline for proposed sanctions from Nov...
Take, for example, a superb investigation by The Crimson's Joe Mathews concerning Harvard's acting chief of police. The acting chief, Lawrence Murphy, admitted that he has close ties to a bus company which has, every year in its six-year history, been awarded a lucrative University contract. This...
U.S. Trade Representative Mickey Kantor warned Japan that Washington would impose trade sanctions if Tokyo did not open up bidding for Japanese government construction projects to U.S. firms. Kantor set a deadline of Nov. 1.
Competition and bidding are nice, but any organization or executive must decide when the time and effort needed to solicit and compare bids costs more than the potential savings from competition. Also, an organization runs on people. Without small favors, friendly arrangements, and personal discretion, it becomes bogged down in...
Even at Harvard, comedy writers hire Lampoon members, former lacrosse players hire current ones, and in general, alums hire other alums. Harvard has argued that information sharing among the Northeast Overlap Group is neither illegal nor bad, though it obviously eliminates the competitive "bidding" for students. For years, The Crimson...