Next up is the launch of the Preferred Provider Program, designed to help businesses find the best third-party software and services firms to help integrate and automate their eBay auctions.
Enron has hired former investment bankers from Bankers Trust and other firms to help originate deals and analyze potential customers down to the impact electricity costs have on their per-unit profits.
In 2016, President Obama signed legislation allowing Puerto Rico to enter a form of bankruptcy and creating a financial oversight board, which in turn hired numerous consulting and legal firms to help manage the bankruptcy process and create new fiscal plans.
Given that scientists and other advocates are not always best placed to develop successful communications campaigns, they should not shy away from seeking support from the private sector (e.g., from private health care companies and advertising firms) to help spread the message broadly and persuasively.
It wants respectability, aid, and American firms to help pump Sudanese oil.
So Ms. Dixon sought the help of seven consulting and lobbying firms to help her press her case; all turned her down, several citing a conflict of interest because they did other work for the casino industry.
In conjunction with the architect Richard Meier, Mr. Brown has hired 36 highly regarded architects and architectural firms to help him make his case for modernism by designing the 36 homes that will make up the Houses at Sagaponac.
A second lawsuit, filed last Friday in the Southern District Court of New York, charges that Deutsche Bank "created a tax shelter machine" by recruiting small law and accounting firms to help it sell a questionable tax shelter called M.L.D.
He's also going after partnerships with accelerators and VC firms to help him get in front of these companies.
It is giving up to $6.2bn to the Boeing and SpaceX firms, to help them finish the development of new crew capsules.
