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  • Cross-country study on the promotion of new pharmaceutical products 
    Kundu, Jayeeta (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    Detailers are one of the most powerful components of pharmaceutical marketing. Drug manufactures spend a lion's share of their marketing budgets on their detailers, and with direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketing coming under ...
  • A cross-industry analysis and framework of aftermarket products and services 
    Englezos, Petros (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    This thesis looks at how supply chains of Aftermarket Products and Services are structured. The study includes an overall examination of the Aftermarket Function, as well as an overview and examination of Aftermarket Supply ...
  • Cross-user subsidy in residential broadband service 
    Min, Jungwon, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)
    The rapid growth of Internet traffic has made Internet Service Providers (ISP) struggle to upgrade network capacity and to maintain service quality. The increase in the broadband usage impacts the cost of an ISP through ...
  • Customer focused collaborative demand planning 
    Jha, Ratan (Ratan Mohan) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    Many firms worldwide have adopted the process of Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process where internal departments within a firm collaborate with each other to generate a demand forecast. In a collaborative demand ...
  • Customer segmentation in the medical devices industry 
    Basu, Probal; Kim, Eun Kyun (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    This thesis addresses Company X's concerns about its product shipment options. The company ships over 70% of its products to its customers using the primary service provider that ensures that the product is at the customer ...
  • Customer service driven supply chain segmentation 
    Worawattananon, Prakit (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    The objective of this thesis is to develop a supply chain segmentation model for Company X, which is in the chemical and construction materials industry. The company sells products in an expanding Southeast Asia market. ...
  • Cycle time reduction through wafer starts control 
    Wang, Sam, M.B.A. Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
    Intel's Fab 17, located in Hudson, Massachusetts, has experienced dramatic improvements in its cycle time performance in the last two years. These improvements have been attributed to lean implementation efforts, reduced ...
  • Data driven health system 
    Rosen Ceruolo, Melissa Beth (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Effective use of data is believed to be the key to address systemic inefficiencies in health innovation and delivery, and to significantly enhance value creation for patients and all stakeholders. However, there is no ...
  • Data management in energy and environment systems : a case study of Web services in the E.P.A.'s Clean Air Markets Division. 
    Adams, Michael W. (Michael Wayne), 1978- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    The components comprising the energy and environment system for electric power are both complex and data intensive. With monitoring of different system components becoming common, increasingly the limits posed on participants ...
  • Data quality enhancement in oil reservoir operations : an application of IPMAP 
    Lin, Paul Hong-Yi (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    This thesis presents a study of data quality enhancement opportunities in upstream oil and gas industry. Information Product MAP (IPMAP) methodology is used in reservoir pressure and reservoir simulation data, to propose ...
  • Decision analysis for geothermal energy 
    Yost, Keith A (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    One of the key impediments to the development of enhanced geothermal systems is a deficiency in the tools available to project planners and developers. Weak tool sets make it difficult to accurately estimate the cost and ...
  • A decision analysis framework for the U.S. nuclear fuel cycle 
    Pierpoint, Lara Marie (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
    If we are willing to pay a premium, we may be able to mitigate some of the long-lasting impacts of nuclear waste. Deciding how to navigate this tradeoff, between cost and waste, is a central challenge for stewards of nuclear ...
  • Decision making in the HIV/AIDS supply chain 
    Cao, Elaine Phu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    During the first two decades of HIV/AIDS awareness, the U.S. and foreign governments responded slowly to the crisis. In contrast today, as the pandemic continues, initiatives of nonprofit organizations have dramatically ...
  • A decision-support model for managing the fuel inventory of a Panamanian generating company 
    Perez-Franco, Roberto, 1976- (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
    Bahia Las Minas Corp (BLM) is a fuelpowered generating company in the Panamanian power system. The purpose of this thesis is to design and evaluate a decision-support model for managing the fuel inventory of this company. ...
  • A decision support model for staffing supply chain planners : a case from the consumer packaged goods industry 
    Castillo, Aura C. (Aura Carolina); Ucev, Ethem (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
    Reducing or increasing labor force is not always effective when done without a thorough analysis. Organizations could face negative consequences such us unbalanced workload, inefficient procedures, lost sales, and negative ...
  • Deficiencies in online privacy policies : factors and policy recommendations 
    Sowell, Jesse H., II (Jesse Horton) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
    Online service providers (OSPs) such as Google, Yahoo!, and Amazon provide customized features that do not behave as conventional experience goods. Absent familiar metaphors, unraveling the full. scope and implications of ...
  • Demand allocation strategies in the seasonal retail industry 
    Chan, Carin H (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)
    Amazon.com is a publicly-held company headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It revolutionized the retail industry by being one of the first major companies to sell goods over the Internet. It is an international company ...
  • Demand management : a cross-industry analysis of supply-demand planning 
    Tan, Peng Kuan (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)
    Globalization increases product variety and shortens product life cycles. These lead to an increase in demand uncertainty and variability. Outsourcing to low-cost countries increases supply lead-time and supply uncertainty ...
  • Deployment related mental health care seeking behaviors in the U.S. military and the use of telehealth to mitigate their impacts on access to care 
    Hess, John (John Thomas) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
    Interviewees report that groups of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan often require substantial amounts of mental health care, causing surges in demand at military hospitals. These hospitals have difficulty ...
  • Design and development of a supplier evaluation process 
    Corum, Andrew (Andrew R.) (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
    Low-cost sourcing is a strategy many companies, including Pratt & Whitney, use to reduce part costs. As they increase their efforts to resource products to low-cost regions, Pratt & Whitney needs a robust process to ...
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