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Queuing dynamics and control of departure operations at Boston Logan Airport
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
The Departure Planner (DP) is a concept for a decision-aiding tool that is aimed at improving the performance of departure operations at major congested airports. In order to support the development of DP tools and other ...
Composite mission variable formulation for real-time mission planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
In this thesis, we create a comprehensive model and efficient solution technique for generating air operations plans. Previous air operations models have fallen short in at least one of the following areas: routing. real-time ...
Four essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This dissertation is composed of four pieces of independent but related works. The first is on optimal risk sharing and CEO compensation. Using a principal agent model, I addressed theoretically the optimal tradeoff between ...
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 ...
Employee motivation : views of successful leaders
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Businesses have an ever-increasing need to improve productivity and reduce costs, while maintaining or improving their quality and customer satisfaction. At the same time, employees have become more mobile and less likely ...
Managing human capital in the knowledge economy : perspectives from the firm and the individual
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
This thesis examines the challenges and implications of managing human capital in a knowledge-intensive environment from the perspectives of both the firm and the individual. Knowledge is redefining the operating environment ...
Minimizing the risk qualification test wafers have on the manufacturing readings of a new microprocessor fabrication site through data processes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Application of the Copy Exact methodology to systems implementation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)
Manufacturing companies that successfully grow their markets and operations face the challenge coordinating operations to capture the value created by economies of scale. However, sharing best practices across organizations ...
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 ...