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The Medicare Physician Quality Reporting Initiative : perceived costs and return on investment influencing participation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The US health care industry is widely held view that it is failing in its ability to provide, safe, high quality care for its citizens. Escalating financial costs and regional variability in the provision of care have ...
Strategic oligopoly model for industrial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Several years ago, Professor Robert Pindyck of the MIT Sloan School of Management created an oligopoly strategy game for use in his course 15.013: Industrial Economics for Strategic Decisions. This game divided the class ...
Rhetorical strategies of foreign executives in revitalizing Japanese global enterprise
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Carlos Ghosn of Nissan and Sir Howard Stringer of Sony are the first non-Japanese top executives of Japanese global enterprises. At the time they were appointed CEOs, both companies were in crisis: Nissan almost facing ...
Strategies for oil and gas companies to remain competitive in the coming decades of energy challenges
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
There are a variety of challenges facing the energy industry, from decreased access to sovereign reserves, to declining fields, innovation challenges, increased regulation and new energy policies. These challenges pose a ...
Women & early-stage entrepreneurship : examining the impact of the venture funding crisis on male and female-led technology start-ups
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Women in technology have always been a minority and the number of women who are founders of venture backed start-ups is even lower. This research empirically investigates venture capital funding received by entrepreneurs ...
CO₂ price impact on Dell's supply chain : a framework for carbon footprint economic analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
The principal scope of this project is to design, analyze and report a case study of how to effectively account for the highly likely scenario of a CO2 price policy (cap-and-trade or tax) with regard to Dell's product and ...
Analyzing the critical success factors for two distinct social movement case studies : climate change & the opening of U.S.-Cuba policy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
There are a number of complex and seemingly intractable social problems facing the United States and the world today. Following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008, there was a renewed popular interest in ...
Evolution of interagency cooperation in the United States Government : the Maritime Operational Threat Response Plan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, there was concern among maritime security experts that terrorist or criminal organizations that wanted to do harm to the United States could exploit gaps that existed ...
The online obstacle : a study of African-American enterprise on the Internet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
Iconic Web companies based in the US, along the likes of Google, Facebook, and Twitter, have exhibited some racial/ethnic diversity among their founders, yet there appears to be a dearth of African-Americans in the group. ...
A franchising of retail operations : the case of the United States Postal Service building a retail network for the 21st century
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)
This thesis is about the effects of changing customer preferences on the United States Postal Service's retail network and offers a process for wider adoption of its current retail partnership program. The Contract Postal ...