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Pricing bundles of products and services in the high-tech industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The High-Tech industry faces tremendous complexity in product design because of the large number of different products that can be offered and the mix of products and services that exists. Information Technology (IT) ...
Maintaining optimal CEO incentives through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
My thesis examines the joint hypotheses that firms set optimal levels for CEO incentives, and that firms and CEOs jointly correct deviations from these optimal levels through equity grants and CEO portfolio rebalancing. I ...
A risk dynamics model of complex system development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The development of complex systems is a challenging endeavor which has captured the attentions of scholars and practitioners alike. Throughout the decades, numerous methods have been proposed to help manage such development ...
Three essays in corporate finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The first chapter of this dissertation studies the relationship between firm age and the diversification discount. The second and third chapters analyze how firms use the proceeds of their stock offerings. In particular, ...
Everything old is new again : a fresh look at historical approaches in machine learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis shows that several old, somewhat discredited machine learning techniques are still valuable in the solution of modern, large-scale machine learning problems. We begin by considering Tikhonov regularization, a ...
Geographic dispersion in teams : its history, experience, measurement, and change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis begins with the simple argument that geographic dispersion has gone surprisingly unexamined despite its role as the domain-defining construct for geographically dispersed teams (a.k.a. "virtual teams"). The ...
Modeling and solving variations of the Network Loading Problem
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
We examine three variations of a class of network design problems known as Network Loading Problems (NLP). For'each variation we develop a tailored branch and bound solution approach equipped with heuristic procedures and ...
Essays in capital markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
(cont.) Slow information diffusion can cause return momentum. Institutions are thought to be more informed than individuals, and should eliminate return predictability. However, higher institutional ownership is associated ...
Flux and flexibility : a comparative institutional analysis of evolving university-industry relationships in MIT, Cambridge and Tokyo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
University-industry relationships are in a state of flux. They represent important strategic issues for universities, for industry, and for governments alike. This confluence of interests has led to experimentation in which ...
Cyclic exchange and related neighborhood structures for combinatorial optimization problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In this thesis, we concentrate on neighborhood search algorithms based on very large-scale neighborhood structures. The thesis consists of three parts. In the first part, we develop a cyclic exchange neighborhood search ...