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What's on the table : revenue management and the welfare gap In the US airline industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
This thesis explores the potential improvements in Revenue Management from two distinct perspectives. The first piece of work is to explore the potential operational improvements, in which we aim to develop competitive and ...
Growing a green job : essays on social movements and the emergence of a new occupation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Professions and occupations play a central role in shaping institutional arrangements, organizational forms, and individual organizations. I argue the emergence and development of new occupations should be among the central ...
Non-linear revenue creating business platform for IT service companies using cloud computing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
The Indian Information Technology (IT) & Business process outsourcing (BPO) companies are going through an inflection point. They have been growing revenue by over 20% on a yearly basis for the last decade. This revenue ...
Reducing complexity In biomanufacturing operations through single-use assemblies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics operates a centralized equipment cleaning and preparation suite at a vaccine production facility in Marburg, Germany. The ~100 pieces of multi-use stainless steel, glass, and plastic ...
Enabling strategic fulfillment : a decision support tool for fulfillment network optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Dell's Third-Party (3P) Product network uses several different order fulfillment methods, though the determination of which products are fulfilled under which method is not clearly delineated. We have developed a tool to ...
Study of the role of Strategically Managed Inventory (SMI) in the Caterpillar supply chain
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
Strategic Managed Inventory (SMI) is an inventory replenishment process deployed by Caterpillar that blends elements of Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI) and Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR). The ...
Algorithms and hardness results for the jump number problem, the joint replenishment problem, and the optimal clustering of frequency-constrained maintenance jobs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
In the first part of this thesis we present a new, geometric interpretation of the jump number problem on 2-dimensional 2-colorable (2D2C) partial order. We show that the jump number of a 2D2C poset is equivalent to the ...
Sponsorship and career progression in the consulting industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
For people of equal aptitude and accomplishment, differences in career progression to the senior ranks of a professional services firm are often attributed to the presence or absence of sponsorship from senior executives. ...
The evaluation of system-wide financial incentives in pipeline decisions in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry : the paradox of R&D spend Vs. new drug approvals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
For several decades, the ascendancy of the Pharma & Biotech sector was largely driven by favorable macro-economic conditions combined with an astonishing level of innovation and a clear focus on addressing unmet medical ...
Zero emission passenger vehicles in tyhhe [sic] United States, anticipating future automobile industry trends based on stakeholder interview analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)
My personal interest in automobile evolution is the primary motivation for this thesis. My engineering education and a fifteen year career in professional automobile racing were also inspired by personal passion for ...