Word: projects
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company project manager's failure to requisition some needed materials at the start of the project due to family problems caused additional delays in items such as steel, an error for which Cruz claims full responsibility. However, Cruz alleges, "Harvard's attitude was that when they saw the job was going bad, instead of helping me by assisting with the cash flow, they thought that I couldn't handle the loss because I was a minority contractor." Cruz explains that the University's contract with him required monthly payments based on his requests. He says Harvard started "tightening the screws...
...three lowest bids for the dining hall because he thought that a small loss on this job would be cancelled out by future possibilities bidding on Harvard jobs. He later reduced his bid by $15,000 during the final negotiations, in order to assure himself of the project. "Through my inexperience as a negotiator, I let myself," Cruz says. He adds that he was also not familiar enough with the type of project to realize that Harvard's six-month schedule was unrealistic. If he were to bid on a similar project again, Cruz says, he would set the schedule...
...time recovering. He plans to meet with University officials later this week to iron out some of the remaining difficulties. Despite the problems he has had with Harvard, he says that he would still work for them, given the opportunity, because they are such a large source of construction projects. "Every large university needs a certain percentage of its work to go to minority contractors," he adds. He would like Harvard to let him bid on other projects so that he can recover some of the money he lost on the dining hall and so he can prove his record...
Another $1.5 million agreement accompanies the zoning variance for the Medical Area Power Plant, which is not owned by Harvard, but by Medical Area Total Energy Project, Inc. (MATEP), a private corporation established by Harvard in order to enter into a tax agreement with the city. Harvard also makes payments on a Mission Hill housing project, also owned by a separate corporation (Mission Park Inc.) in which Harvard is a minority stockholder...
...Oxford University, where he worked on a book about ten great historians of the 19th century. Although he was unable to complete the work, he said he found the experience worthwhile simply because he was able to get away from the familiar Harvard environment and work on a pet project. "Getting a change is one of the best things about academic life," Clive said...