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Located between San Francisco and San Jose in the heart of Silicon Valley, Stanford University is recognized as one of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.
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630 Serra Street
Suite 120
Stanford, California 94305-6032
(650) 723-2300
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Factors Influencing VDC Technology Diffusion On Construction Projects
BNET
- 2006-07-14
Construction companies often try to introduce new technologies to stay competitive. Unfortunately, experiences show that construction management project teams adopt these new technologies only slowly. To help speed up this adoption process, R&D and project managers need to better understand which factors influence the speed of adoption. The R&D manager...
Design Process Error-Proofing: Strategies For Reducing Quality Loss In Product Development
BNET
- 2005-11-05
Design errors are a major source of quality loss in industry. 'Design Process Error-Proofing' seeks to prevent errors during product development by adapting quality management techniques. Poka-yoke solutions used in manufacturing and operation aim to prevent mistakes from occurring or detect them immediately after they are committed. The goal of...
Dynamic Procurement, Quantity Discounts, And Supply Chain Efficiency
BNET
- 2005-02-11
This paper explains a model with a single supplier and a single buyer who interacts multiple times before the buyer sells her product in the end-consumer market. We show that when the supplier uses a wholesale price contract, even under perfect foresight, the supplier and the buyer benefit from multiple...
Stanford University's Experience With Managed Competition
BNET
- 2004-12-01
Stanford University has a "managed competition" model of health insurance. Stanford contributes the cost of the low-cost plan, and employees are responsible for premium differences between this plan and other offerings. Each employee gets what he or she wants and is willing to pay for, and everyone has low-cost access...
Information Technology and Purchasing Strategy: Two Necessary Enablers of More Efficient Construction Processes
BNET
- 2004-10-01
This paper focuses on two types of re-engineering strategies, concurrent engineering and outsourcing to low cost countries and how they relate to the alignment of contracting and IT strategies. Concurrent engineering offer substantial schedule savings but can also result in more communication and the potential of being locked-in to a...
Explaining the Bankruptcy 'Crisis' in English Football: Ownership Style and the Wage-Performance Relationship 1996-2003
BNET
- 2004-05-01
Between 2001 and 2003, fourteen clubs in the English Football Association FA entered administration - the British equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy. This paper explores the changing landscape in the FA before and during the reported financial 'Crisis' at the turn of the 21st century and examines the impact of...
The Scope And Role Of Information Technology In Construction
BNET
- 2004-02-01
To set the stage for the points this paper first summarize current use of Information Technology IT in construction. The last few years have seen dramatic improvements in and widespread use of IT to describe and document the work of the many disciplines involved in construction projects. This paper gives...
Parallel Finite Element Modeling of Earthquake Ground Response and Liquefaction
BNET
- 2004-01-21
Parallel computing is a promising approach to alleviate the computational demand in conducting large scale finite element analyses. This paper presents a numerical modeling approach for earthquake ground response and liquefaction using the parallel nonlinear finite element program, ParCYCLIC, which is designed for distributed-memory message-passing parallel computer systems. In ParCYCLIC,...
Went for Cost, Stayed for Quality?: Moving the Back Office to India
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- 2003-11-01
This paper examines the role of India in the offshoring of services. According to an Indian trade body, NASSCOM, the most reliable estimates of offshored BP employment was 171,500 in March 2003, up from 106,000 in March 2002 (NASSCOM-McKinsey Report, 2002). The NASSCOM-McKinsey report estimates that BPO operations will employ,...
Higher Supply Chain Security With Lower Cost: Lessons From Total Quality Management
BNET
- 2003-07-06
Governments and industry have all responded with proposals to create more confidence in supply chain security, while maintaining smooth flows of goods and services in a global supply chain. One of the most effective strategies may be to apply the lessons of successful quality improvement programs. This paper describes how...
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