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Newton's method for parametric center problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Empirical essays on information asymmetries in financial markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
Two essays in empirical financial economics : The stock price effects of insider trading and, A comparison of futures and forward prices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990)
The photochemical industry : historical essays in business strategy and internationalization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986)
Why the garden club couldn't save Youngstown : social embeddedness and the transformation of the rust belt
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
In 1975, Allentown, Pennsylvania and Youngstown, Ohio could be considered of a piece. Both were mid-sized cities in which nearly 35% of the local work force was employed in manufacturing. By 1983, both had taken on the ...
Information technology and business transformation : work location and the allocation of decision rights
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)
(cont.) as well, firms have an incentive to require coordinated investments in technology across the enterprise. Still, research in IS has also highlighted the fact that the productivity of computer investments is highly ...
Documenting dreams : patient-centered records versus practice-centered records
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)
This thesis explores how doctors and nurses use documents to share their knowledge within and across healthcare settings. In addressing this question I draw on a 15-month, multi-sited ethnographic study in several pediatric ...
Fear and desire in systems design : negotiating database usefulness
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)
Databases are ubiquitous. They are used for a host of functions including coordination, decision making, and memory archiving. Despite their importance and ubiquity, databases continue to frustrate us, often departing from ...
Rigid or flexible accounting rules? : evidence from purchase price adjustments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)
I examine the negotiation of accounting rules in the purchase price adjustment clause of corporate acquisition agreements. Purchase price adjustments make the deal value contingent on the target's closing working capital ...
Essays on volatility and the division of innovative labor
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
Economic liberalization has brought a widespread belief that strengthening supply-side institutions is not only a necessary condition but also a sufficient one for economic and technological development. Yet uneven growth ...