Balwani, Siddharth (Siddharth Vashdev)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis covers work done at National Grid to improve resource planning and the execution of pipeline construction and maintenance work carried out at the yards. Resource Planning, the art of picking the right jobs for ...
Wang, Hai, S.M. Massachusetts Institute of Technology(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The Last Mile Problem (LMP) refers to the provision of travel service from the nearest public transportation node to a home or office. We study the supply side of this problem in a stochastic setting, with batch demands ...
Nistor, Cristina (Cristina Daniela)(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This dissertation consists of three essays on product quality and pricing. Essay 1: Pricing and Quality Provision in a Channel: A Model of Efficient Relational Contracts The first essay analyzes how quality concerns affect ...
Lan, George(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
While it is intuitively plausible that using contacts in job search benefits a job-seeker, there is still both theoretical disagreement and inconclusive empirical evidence on why a job-seeker's social capital is associated ...