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Understanding enterprise behavior using hybrid simulation of enterprise architecture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)
Today, the design of business enterprises is much more art than science. The complex structure and behavior of enterprises makes it difficult to untangle cause and effect amidst its components and their relationships. In ...
Climate and energy policy for U.S. passenger vehicles : a technology-rich economic modeling and policy analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
Climate and energy security concerns have prompted policy action in the United States and abroad to reduce petroleum use and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from passenger vehicles. Policy affects the decisions of firms and ...
A methodology to capture, evaluate and reformulate a firm's supply chain strategy as a conceptual system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
A variety of events inside a firm and in its environment can motivate managers to rethink their supply chain strategy. However, the evaluation and reformulation of a firm's supply chain strategy is not a trivial problem, ...
Improving product availability in hospitals : the role of inventory inaccuracies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
All players in the healthcare industry face increasing public and political pressure to improve quality of care and control costs. Hospitals, on the frontline of this challenge, face nursing shortages and financial ...
Open collaborative system design : a strategic framework with application to synthetic biology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Across technology industries and particularly at the cutting edge of biotechnology a debate is under way about the proper balance between open and closed - between co-developing products with shared information and open ...
Integrated allocation and utilization of airport capacity to mitigate air traffic congestion
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The combination of air traffic growth and airport capacity limitations has resulted in significant congestion throughout the US National Airspace System, which imposes large costs on the airlines, passengers and society. ...
Strategies to reduce product waste in the consumer packaged goods industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
The cost of waste for products such as soft drinks, shelf stable dry food, and dairy in the consumer packaged goods industry is massive, about $15 billion annually in the U.S.A. This thesis focuses on waste associated with ...
Using inclusive wealth as a measure of sustainability for infrastructure planning and evaluation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Inclusive wealth (IW) measures the productive base of an economy, which is a linear index of its capital asset stocks. Changes to IW per capita over time track changes to intergenerational human well-being, thus non-declining ...
Learning and flexibility for water supply infrastructure planning under diverse uncertainties
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
Water supply infrastructure planning faces many uncertainties. Uncertainty in short-term in rainfall and runoff, groundwater storage, and long-term climate change impacts water supply forecasts. Population and economic ...
Stakeholder salience influence on bureaucratic program enterprise value creation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
In 2009, the Government Accountability Office reported that two-thirds of major weapon systems acquisition programs were required to report budget overruns and were almost two years behind schedule for delivery of capability ...