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Essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
In Chapter 1, I document that there is a high correlation between the returns of cryptocurrencies and those of utility tokens, which are claims to products and services yet to be developed that are issued through ICOs and ...
Stepping toward a smarter factory at Canam
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Canam Group ("Canam") is a manufacturer of steel components and building products used in the construction industry. The company uses a distributed network of manufacturing centers throughout North America to build and ...
Standardization of new product introductions to achieve zero defect lines
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Consistently high quality is important to any manufacturing environment, and especially so when operating in the highly regulated medical space, which typically targets zero defects in products serving patients. The New ...
Establishment of a novel Pichia Pastoris host production platform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The Cell Line Development group at Amgen is responsible for manufacturing and optimizing the cell lines utilized in production of Amgen's biologic drug portfolio. Traditionally, these cell lines are produced from mammalian ...
Process enablers for successful reverse engineering inside large organizations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Reverse engineering has the potential to be a strategic advantage for many engineering companies. As companies continuously look for new ways to improve their business and technical expertise, reverse engineering facilitates ...
Analytics for strategic corporate social responsibility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Often organized as disconnected philanthropic activities independent from core corporate strategy, the potential that Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) can play in gaining competitive advantage for firms have largely ...
Competitive analysis of digital content and knowledge sharing market for continuing education in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The digital content market for continuing education in China became an industry of popularity in the mid-2010s. Companies in this industry provide content products curated to the need of customers who would like to better ...
A new direction and business plan for developing and commercializing adult incontinence products in China
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The adult incontinence market in China has been considered as one of the fastest-growing market, given the growing aging population and rising income spending. However, despite the boom in registered incontinence brands, ...
New optimization approaches to matrix factorization problems with connections to natural language processing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
In this thesis, we propose novel formulation optimization methods for four matrix factorization problems in depth: sparse principal component analysis, compressed sensing, discrete component analysis, and latent Dirichlet ...
Essays on the very invisible college : global science and African participation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Despite globalization, innovative activities remain concentrated in a handful of high-income countries. Leveraging knowledge and resources in these locations through ties in the global network presents opportunities for ...