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Improving on-time delivery performance through the implementation of lean supply chain management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Composite-variable modeling for large-scale problems in transportation and logistics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Numerous important real-world problems are found in the areas of transportation and logistics. Many of these problems pose tremendous challenges due to characteristics such as complex networks, tightly constrained resources, ...
Integration and corporate investment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
This thesis consists of three chapters that broadly investigates, theoretically and empirically, the effect of firm boundaries and organizational processes on internal resource allocation and corporate investment. In the ...
Spinning off new ventures from research institutions outside high tech entrepreneurial areas
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
In this thesis, I examine how spinning off new ventures from academic institutions works in an environment outside developed high tech clusters and how it affects models of ventures. I examine these questions by studying ...
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 ...
Case studies of how BP and Shell are approaching sustainable development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Firms in all industries must respond both to the changing dynamics of markets and to the expectations of stakeholders within those markets. Within the last two decades, nongovernmental organizations and other parts of the ...
A study of restructuring in the Chinese petroleum sector
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
China's oil industry has experienced fundamental changes since 1988. China's oil market will be open to foreign companies just a few years after its entry into the WTO in the end of 2001. The three national petroleum ...
A consumer guide to the benefits and obstacles of transitioning to the hydrogen fuel cell
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
Hydrogen Fuel Cells are a much talked about technology often represented as promising virtually unlimited amounts of non-polluting power by chemically reacting hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, with ...
Application of lean manufacturing technique for the design of the aircraft assembly line
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
The final assembly line for the Boeing Commercial Airplanes 717 Program is currently implementing "The 9 Tactics", a methodology based on the lean manufacturing principles to transform the current processes to continuous ...
A new perspective on multi-echelon inventory systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)
We present a new methodology for analyzing multi-echelon inventory systems. The methodology relies on decomposing complicated multi-echelon inventory control problems into much smaller and managable subproblems, whose ...