Browsing Theses - Sloan School of Management by Title
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Fab cycle time improvement through inventory control : a wafer starts approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Intel's Colorado Springs wafer fabrication facility, known internally as F23, has undertaken several initiatives to reduce cycle time including High Precision Maintenance (HPM), content reduction through the application ... -
The fabrication and market analysis of lattice mismatched devices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Lattice mismatched semiconductor substrates provide a platform for higher performance semiconductor devices. Through epitaxial growth on GaAs, the lattice constant of the film can be expanded resulting in a desired InxGalxAs ... -
Face distance : unpacking the role of ethnic ties in venture capital investment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Venture capitalists have been shown to be more likely to invest in entrepreneurs of the same ethnicity. At the same time, this result rests on assumptions about how shared ethnicity is defined both theoretically and ... -
Facilitating consensus knowledge acquisition by Andrew W. Trice.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
Factors affecting employee loyalty
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
Factors influencing the locus of innovation activity leading to scientific instrument and plastics innovations
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Factors shaping the future of Cloud Computing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Many different forces are currently shaping the future of the Cloud Computing Market. End user demand and end user investment in existing technology are important drivers. Vendor innovation and competitive strategy are ... -
Factory-installation of software on workstations and servers
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Faculty as founder? : an examination of faculty's role in biomedical start-ups
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Executive Summary: In this thesis, I examine faculty inventors' involvement in university spin-off firms formed to commercialize their inventions. In particular, I analyze the association between a faculty inventor's various ... -
Fairmicco, Inc. - a case study of an industry/ghetto community enterprise in Washington, D.C.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1971) -
Fairness in operations : from theory to practice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis deals with two basic issues in resource allocation problems. The first issue pertains to how one approaches the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem. The notion of ... -
Fall of the Titans, a study of the financial behemoths that crumbled in 2008
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)At the heart of the global financial crisis of 2008-09 crisis were the American real estate market, age old financial institutions, and their greed. This study goes back to that tumultuous period of 2007-2009, when some ... -
Fast approximation schemes for multi-criteria combinatorial optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
Faster algorithms for some network flow problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Faster fully polynomial approximation schemes for Knapsack problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)A fully polynomial time approximation scheme (FPTAS) is an algorithm that returns ... -optimal solution to a maximization problem of size n, which runs in polynomial time in both ... We develop faster FPTASs for several ... -
Fear and desire in systems design : negotiating database usefulness
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Databases are ubiquitous. They are used for a host of functions including coordination, decision making, and memory archiving. Despite their importance and ubiquity, databases continue to frustrate us, often departing from ... -
Feasibility analysis of a new business venture : the National College of Computer Software, electronic in-home education
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1984) -
Feasibility analysis of a new business venture--Medimatch, an electronic job information marketplace for health care professionals
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
A feasibility study : should a major New York commercial bank offer telephone bill payment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1977) -
The feasibility study of applied neuroscience for advertising and marketing research
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)Recently, various kinds of biosensors have been developed, which can be used by advertising researchers for their research to understand consumer behavior and responses. At the same time, most advertisers have become more ...
