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aVoilà : optimizing and evaluating procurement paths across the commercial aviation product life cycle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Spirit AeroSystems is engaged in an unprecedented collaboration to supply a composite fuselage section for a new aircraft program. In most cases, Spirit cannot effectively leverage its composite sourcing experience with ...
Collective intelligence in financial markets : does consumer sentiment influence valuation of financial products?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This paper examines the relationship between the public mood associated with the economies of Italy, Spain and Greece, and prices of Credit Default Swaps on sovereign bonds of aforementioned countries. The effect of the ...
Essays on modeling and measurement of consumers' decision strategies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis consists of three related essays which explore new approaches to modeling and measurement of consumer decision strategies. The focus is on decision strategies that deviate from von Neumann-Morgenstern utility ...
Impact of money market funds on commercial paper markets in United States and South Korea
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The focus of this study is on Commercial Paper markets which are used by financial and non financial firms to manage working capital and maturity transformation. We explore how the primary investors in CP in the US, the ...
Sustainability in the product cycle : adopting a shared standard for the apparel industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Decisions made by product designers strongly influence the social and environmental impacts that a consumer product will have over its lifetime. This study examines the Sustainable Apparel Index, a decision-support tool ...
The Brazilian Pension System from an innovative perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The demographic changes and the growth in expenses of the social security make the current pension system in Brazil unsustainable, creating opportunities for the complementary fund industry. This work discusses the current ...
787 mid-body job precedence networks for improving production rate
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
In a complex manufacturing environment, generating schedules, identifying deviations, and recovering from delays have a significant impact on total operational performance. At Boeing's 787 plant, a precedence network was ...
Design and optimization of global distribution supply chain at McCain Foods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Network design has been successfully used by numerous organizations to achieve supply chain excellence through cost effectiveness and superior utilization of resources. This thesis addresses how network optimization methods ...
Provably near-optimal algorithms for multi-stage stochastic optimization models in operations management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Many if not most of the core problems studied in operations management fall into the category of multi-stage stochastic optimization models, whereby one considers multiple, often correlated decisions to optimize a particular ...
An analysis of Russian equity capital markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This paper begins with the assumption that stock market development has a positive and causal relationship with long run economic growth. It thus takes the view that developing the equity market is an important policy ...