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Organizational challenges in cloud adoption and enablers of cloud transition program
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
With the proliferation of cloud computing, organizations have been able to get access to never seen before computing power and resources. Cloud computing has revolutionized the utilization of computing resources through ...
Asset liability management throughout macroeconomic cycle in financial institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In this thesis, we are going to study asset liability management throughout the macroeconomic cycle in financial institutions. There are two important problems in financial institutions. The first is that asset and liability ...
Labor arbitrage : impact of offshoring in the U.S. labor market
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
The rapid growth of offshoring has ignited a contentious debate over its impact on the US labor market. Between 1983 and 2002, the United States economy lost 6 million jobs in manufacturing and income inequality increased ...
Challenges and opportunities in the Tunisian private equity sector
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Most of the studies and research analyzing the private equity ("PE") sector in the Middle East North Africa ("MENA") region tend to focus more on the Middle East and less on North Africa. The case of Tunisia is probably ...
The development of impact investing and implications for China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
In recent years, impact investing has been developing rapidly and attracting broader attention. According to the JP Morgan and GIIN Annual Impact Investor Survey, the number of global impact investors increased approximately ...
Data driven manufacturing risk assessment for turbine engine programs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Waste and uncertainty can be managed at all levels of a production process from a program level down to a single step in a manufacturing cell, and is done by assessing risk. Risk is defined as uncertainty in the ability ...
Container removal and replacement automation : design and development of robotic work cells for warehouse automation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)
Amazon has grown at a rapid pace. In 2018, Amazon retail sales amounted to $141.92B, up 19.7% from the previous year. The number of units shipped through its Prime program alone grew by 20% from 5 billion the previous year ...
Digital business model development and validation for real-time monitoring solution for electrical power transformers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Currently, the health of high-value power transformers is primarily evaluated by visual inspections, oil sample analysis conducted by a third-party lab, and measurements taken by a mechanic physically present at the ...
Project-based manufacturing : an approach for quote development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Project-based manufacturing presents unique challenges that highly automated and repetitive production lines do not face. Highly automated production lines do not have much variation in the types of products that are made, ...