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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation evaluates the extent to which temporary work enables or constrains workers' careers, by moving beyond a polarized image of contingent employment as "free agency" versus "exploitation." I argue that, in ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)"Systems" goods-such as computers, telecom networks, and automobiles-are made up of multiple components. This dissertation comprises three essays that study the decisions of system innovators in mobile computing to "open" ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This dissertation examines how U.S. immigration policies, as implemented by government agents, shape migration and key employment outcomes of foreign nationals. Using unique quantitative and qualitative data, never previously ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This paper examines whether a change in the accounting rule for research and development (R&D) cost is associated with changes in the innovation process. Specifically, I examine whether R&D expenditure, the number of patents ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This dissertation comprises a case study and formal simulation model of DTE Energy's Lean Six Sigma continuous-improvement (CI) program from its inception in 1998 through the end of 2009. The case history is based on ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)I study the evolution of Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) # 142, which uses unverifiable fair-value estimates to account for acquired goodwill. I find evidence consistent with the Financial Accounting ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)Individuals are involved in daily decision making situations under varying levels of certainty and ease of gathering information, characterized by many factors such as the need to make payments, or the desire to fulfill ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1974)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975)
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Induced technical change in computable general equilibrium models for climate-change policy analysis (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)Policies to avert the threat of dangerous climate change focus on stabilizing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations by drastically reducing anthropogenic emissions of carbon. Such reductions require limiting the use ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)Human decision making is a topic of great interest to marketers, psychologists, economists, and others. People are often modeled as rational utility maximizers with unlimited mental resources. However, due to the structure ...
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Influences from information technology on industry cycles : a case study in manufacturing industry. (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This paper studies whether managers use investor information they learn from the stock market when making forward-looking disclosures. Using annual management earnings forecasts from 1996 to 2010, I find that the association ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)This thesis investigates the impact of lack of information and decentralization of decision-making on the performance of inventory, supply chain, and transportation systems. In the first part of the thesis, we study two ...
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(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)PIPEs (Private Investments in Public Equity) are unique in that they are negotiated privately between sophisticated investors and the public firm. As a result, the issue price deviates from the firm's stock price, often ...
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