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Models for stakeholder relationship management at socially controversial facilities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Stakeholder engagement is a key but often misunderstood performance indicator of project success in controversial projects. Construction projects, power production, medical research, and waste disposal are examples of such ...
Multidisciplinary system design optimization of fiber-optic networks within data centers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The growth of the Internet and the vast amount of cloud-based data have created a need to develop data centers that can respond to market dynamics. The role of a data center designer, whom is responsible for scoping, ...
Application of CAST to hospital adverse events
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)
Despite the passage of 15 years since the Institute of Medicine sought to galvanize the nation with its report To Err is Human, the authors' goal to dramatically improve the quality of healthcare delivery in the United ...
A multilayer network approach to quantifying biologically-derived systematic risk in biomedical finance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Sharply rising disease prevalence and associated healthcare costs are placing an increasingly significant economic burden on society. Biomedical research and industry have struggled to adequately address this challenge, ...
Portfolio valuation in early drug development : a systematic accounting of utility
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
Pharmaceutical drug development is exhibiting a consistent trend of increased R&D investment required per successful therapy brought to market. Simultaneously, cultural and political sentiment is increasingly putting ...
Risk Assessment for IoT : a system evaluation of the smart home and its cybersecurity imperative
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
In the past two decades, the exponential growth of the modern Internet with the digitization of most human activities such as data gathering and storage have also fueled the growth of cybercrimes. In more recent years, the ...
The dynamic relationship between motivation, performance, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction: developing a model for a better motivation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
This study explores the dynamic relationship among motivation, work performance, organizational commitment, and job satisfaction as well as drivers of each of them. Main goal of this study is to understand what factors ...
Bytes of Evolution : essays on applying social physics lessons for management effectiveness
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
How can we construct socio-technical system such that they constantly evolve to improve themselves? This is the central question of this thesis. We propose a "senseable Kaizen" philosophy. This involves the central tenets ...
Autonomous vehicles : a solution to facilitate human mobility and increase face-to-face interactions : a study inside a large campus organization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
The world is and has been in constant change. Disruptive technologies have emerged and integrated into our day to day lives and have radically improved the way we live. Today, in our overly connected world technology is ...
Enhancing student learning through use of case study paper in Republic Polytechnic, Singapore
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)
While the dominant lesson delivery style in Republic Polytechnic in Singapore is its unique One- Day-One-Problem approach using the Problem-Based Learning pedagogy, there have been other lesson delivery methods adopted by ...