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Founded in 1787 as a small, private school, the Pittsburgh Academy was located in a log cabin near Pittsburgh?s three rivers. In the 220 years since, the University has evolved into an internationally recognized center of learning and research. Private through much of its history, Pitt became a state-related university in 1966. Today, the University of Pittsburgh system consists of the 132-acre Pittsburgh campus and regional campuses in Bradford, Greensburg, Johnstown, and Titusville. The University?s 12,000 employees, including 3,800 full-time faculty members, serve about 34,000 students through the programs of 15 undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools.
NAICS Code Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools: 611310
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Time Savings In Product Development Through Continuous Simulation
BNET
- 2005-04-14
In present day's fast-paced economy and complex global market has made it difficult for manufacturing companies to maintain their competitive edge. Products being developed must stand apart from others, and lead the market in the way they meet customer needs. Tools to reduce product development time have been in use...
Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? New Expectations of Foreign Investors in Zones of Conflict
BNET
- 2004-10-18
This paper argues that the corporate accountability movement is in the process of establishing new norms and expectations about corporate behavior, but they are still only weakly institutionalized. Major political actors- states, NGOs, and international organizations are attempting to re-work the identity of economic actors by promoting the idea of...
Knowledge Sourcing Effectiveness: Electronic Companion Document
BNET
- 2004-06-02
In this Electronic Companion paper, we provide additional details regarding six aspects of the above-noted study, namely: the relationship between knowledge sourcing and similar construct; the utilization of formative constructs; psychometric tests performed to assess the representativeness of the sample, likelihood of non-response bias, and likelihood of mono-method bias; the...
Change: Why Do Firms Change?
BNET
- 2003-01-01
The external and internal environment of an organization is in a state of constant change. The organization has to re-adjust itself to this changing scenario in order to sustain competitive advantage in the market. There are two major types of change viz. evolutionary change and revolutionary change. The former takes...
Optical Propagation Methodologies for Optical MEM Systems
BNET
- 2000-01-21
This white paper examines optical propagation techniques for modeling and simulating optical MEM systems. It determines an appropriate technique through studying two criteria: the requirements established by the physical properties of these systems and the goal of having an interactive CAD tool. After examining several classical methods, we conclude with...
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