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Multiple part type decomposition method in manufacturing processing line
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Product development process assessment at Company D
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Applying lean manufacturing in an automotive stamping plant
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Disruptive technologies : an expanded view
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The awareness of disruptive technologies and their potential effects on established firms was recently brought to the forefront of business thinking by Clayton Christensen in his book "The Innovator's Dilemma: When New ...
Globally dispersed startups
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Managing a hi-tech startup in the USA is a difficult challenge. Managing a startup based in a peripheral country is next to impossible. It requires setting up a strategic operations office in a different country and managing ...
Portfolio risk minimization under departures from normality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis revisits the portfolio selection problem in cases where returns cannot be modeled as Gaussian. The emphasis is on the development of financially intuitive and statistically sound approaches to portfolio risk ...
New neighborhood search algorithms based on exponentially large neighborhoods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
A practical approach for solving computationally intractable problems is to employ heuristic (approximation) algorithms that can find nearly optimal solutions within a reasonable amount of computational time. An improvement ...
Attracting new coating businesses by offering flexible manufacturing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Design and analysis of an enterprise metrics system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Application of stastical quality control to improve yields and rationalize testing in a low volume manufacturing facility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)