Browsing Theses - Sloan School of Management by Title
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The transformation of the Japanese commercial code and its impact on the Japanese economy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)The legal system is an essential basis of the society and economy of every country, and it changes continually in accordance with national social and economic situations. The Japanese Commercial Code is no exception. One ... -
Transforming data into information to control and improve a ribbon bonding process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)In a complex production process attached to every unit are considerable quantities of data that provide many details regarding process performance. On many occasions, although this data is collected in a database or in ... -
Transforming the construction industry to solve the housing deficit in Argentina
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Transient analysis of D(t)/M(t)/1 queuing system with applications to computing airport delays
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis is motivated by the desire to estimate air traffic delays at airports under a range of assumptions about the predictability of (a) inter-arrival times of demands (arrivals and departures) and (b) service times ... -
Transitioning a maintenance culture in a plant
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Transitioning technology from R&D to production
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Corporate research and development (R&D) drives progress in the high-tech industries. Companies that advance the state-of-the-art in product performance enjoy significant advantages over the competition. However, although ... -
Trend dynamics : a method to improve the analysis, dissemination and forecasting of trends on the Internet
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis provides a new perspective in trend analysis with the acknowledgement of individuals as carriers of trends and susceptible to influence simultaneously by a trend's perceived significance and by external effects ... -
Trends in IT outsourcing : a vendor perspective
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)Our thesis is part of a larger structured thesis conducted under the supervision of Professor Gabriel Bitran. The overall thesis looks at intermediaries in the IT service market, and specifically how Imaging and Computing ... -
Triage and treatment of strategic and operational problems in a semiconductor equipment consumables manufacturing company
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)The company studied in this internship project supplies consumable copper components to the semiconductor equipment industry. Growing in this industry has been much more difficult than the company's original 1995 business ... -
Truce structures : examining cross-professional coordination in the wake of technological and institutional change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)This research examines the structures, processes, and mechanisms that facilitate cross-professional coordination during periods of technological and institutional change. My study draws on a 24-month ethnographic study, ... -
Trust policy management for the financial industry using semantic web rules
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Trust Management is a growing problem in large corporations today. In industries like financial services, firms need to comply with constantly changing regulations, security requirements and business policies. Information ... -
Turkish e-Government transformation : a country analysis based on efforts, problems and solutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This study analyzes the e-Government transformation in Turkey by presenting a detailed history of efforts between 1990 and 2011. The first chapter of this study presents the focus of the research as an introduction to the ... -
Turning around investment banks during the financial crisis : surviving apart from government bailouts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)The principal topic of this paper addresses optimal turnaround strategies that businesses employ to reengineer value during times of financial distress. The scope of the paper focuses on investment banks during the financial ... -
Two case studies focusing on information system orgainzation and use of the critical success factors methodology.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979) -
Two essays in commonality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)In the first part of this thesis we consider a manufacturer that introduces successive generations of products, possibly on multiple similar production lines. We consider two types of production phase for this firm; pilot ... -
Two essays in empirical financial economics : The stock price effects of insider trading and, A comparison of futures and forward prices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
The two faces of MIS--group membership, role orientation, and personal outcomes among information systems designers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991) -
Two papers in supply chain design : supply chain configuration and part selection in multigeneration products
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)Increasing competitive pressures are forcing companies to increase their rates of innovation. The increasing rate of innovation shortens each product's duration in the market, thereby compressing each product's life cycle. ... -
Two topics in multistage manufacturing systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
Two topics in online auctions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis studies two operations management topics in online auctions, and is divided into two parts. Motivated by the increasing use of ShopBots to scan Internet auctions, the first part of the thesis analytically ...
