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Three essays on entrepreneurial quality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This dissertation introduces a new method to measure entrepreneurial quality and applies it to three questions of theoretical interest in entrepreneurship. The dissertation is presented in five chapters. Chapter 1 is an ...
Essays on empirical asset pricing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 shows that, for active mutual funds, historical in-sample alpha is a poor predictor of out-of-sample alpha. However, by focusing on a subset of skilled managers who ...
Using massive online choice experiments to measure changes in well-being
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
Digital technologies have transformed the nature of production and the types of goods and services consumed in modern economies. Yet our measurement framework for economic growth has not fundamentally changed since the ...
Multi-modal, multi-period, multi-commodity transportation : models and algorithms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
In this paper we present a mixed integer optimization framework for modeling the shipment of goods between origin destination (O-D) pairs by vehicles of different types over a time-space network. The output of the model ...
Data-driven optimization and analytics for operations management applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In this thesis, we study data-driven decision making in operation management contexts, with a focus on both theoretical and practical aspects. The first part of the thesis analyzes the well-known newsvendor model but under ...
Large-scale analytics and optimization in urban transportation : improving public transit and its integration with vehicle-sharing services
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Public transportation is undeniably an effective way to move a large number of people in a city. Its ineffectiveness, such as long travel times, poor coverage, and lack of direct services, however, makes it unappealing to ...
Value chain concept for power electronics based products
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Integration of renewable energy, general decentralization of generating power and a high degree of automation may trigger a technological change in grid infrastructure, away from electromechanical products and towards more ...
Value creation through intellectual property acquisition
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
After Sanofi acquired intellectual property (IP) from bankrupt Pelikan Technologies it desired to leverage the IP to identify a product concept to enhance the company's portfolio. To facilitate the project, a structured ...
Platform failures : lessons for strategic management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Most internet business models today are positioned as platforms that connect two or more groups of users. From online social networking to electronic retail, we find that multi-sided platforms are penetrating consumers' ...
Face distance : unpacking the role of ethnic ties in venture capital investment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Venture capitalists have been shown to be more likely to invest in entrepreneurs of the same ethnicity. At the same time, this result rests on assumptions about how shared ethnicity is defined both theoretically and ...