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Helicopter final assembly critical path analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Helicopter final assembly involves the installation of hundreds of components into the aircraft and takes thousands of man-hours. Meeting production targets such as total build days and total aircraft man-hours can be ...
Innovation performance, policy, and infrastructure : a comparison of Japan and the U.S.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
With flagship corporations in Japan struggling to complete a highly globalized market against increased competition from the US and Asia, the Japanese government has been striving to increase the competitiveness and improve ...
Strategic management of innovation and entrepreneurial framework applied to the South African nanotechnology flagship projects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This study considers four South African nanotechnology flagship projects and evaluates them using the Strategic Management of Innovation and entrepreneurial framework. The flagship projects span a variety of focus areas ...
Complementary capabilities in dynamic environments : the evolution of professional services in information technology product firms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The innovative firm must continually evaluate its boundaries - decisions often shaped through make-buy-partner evaluations and choices about where to define the firm's competences. Building off of earlier work that suggests ...
Organization-bound professionalism : essays on contemporary expert work
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The three essays of the thesis explore the role of organizations in professional work and the role of professionalism in organizations, by analyzing novel data from three distinct empirical cases. The first essay uses the ...
Financial reporting quality and uncertainty about credit risk among the ratings agencies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
I study whether financial reporting quality resolves uncertainty about credit risk by examining how it affects disagreement between rating agencies. I find better reporting quality is associated with less uncertainty about ...
Air traffic flow management at airports : a unified optimization approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The cost of air traffic delays is well documented, and furthermore, it is known that the significant proportion of delays is incurred at airports. Much of the air traffic flow management literature focuses on traffic flows ...
Inbound supply chain optimization and process improvement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The primary goal of this project is to evaluate Amazon's inbound supply chain processes and identify improvement opportunities in transportation cost and lead time. Analysis will be focused on defining the current state ...
Optimization-based decision support system for retail souring
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Some of the biggest challenges in the retail sourcing lie in predicting demand for a new article and making purchase decisions such as quantity, source, transportation mode and time of the order. Such decisions become more ...
Lowering outbound shipping costs in an online retail environment by making better fulfillment and replenishment decisions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
As online retailing - or e-tailing - continues to grow as more and more customers buy physical goods on the internet, finding ways to reduce the cost and environmental impact of outbound shipping in this sector will become ...