Browsing Management - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Gendering professions : an analysis of peer effects
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Professional identity is important both to professionals and to the professions of which they are members. In addition to being crucial for professional success at an individual level, and for the maintenance of professional ... -
General superposition strategies and asset allocation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)Investors commonly use stopping rules to help them get in and out of their investment positions. Despite their widespread use and support from behavioral finance, there has been little discussion of their impact on portfolio ... -
A generalized model for the prediction of controller intervention rates in the en route air traffic control system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
Generic feedback structures underlying economic fluctuations.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
Geographic dispersion in teams : its history, experience, measurement, and change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)This thesis begins with the simple argument that geographic dispersion has gone surprisingly unexamined despite its role as the domain-defining construct for geographically dispersed teams (a.k.a. "virtual teams"). The ... -
The geographic sources of innovation in the multinational enterprise : U.S. subsidiaries and host country spillovers, 1980-1990
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)This dissertation is about multinational firms and the geography of technological innovation. It addresses a series of questions about the spatial location of the knowledge sources that underpin and inform innovations ... -
Giraffes, religion and conflict : essays in behavioral decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Essay 1: Objective Scale Anchoring in Sequential Judgments We explore the scope and boundary conditions for anchoring when respondents render sequential judgments in the absence of an explicit comparative standard. We show ... -
The global integration challenge : global management teams, temporal differences, and constructing the identity of the global 'other'
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)In this thesis, I investigate the challenges of 21st century global integration by examining it indepth at a Fortune 200 global supplier (CC) that faces strong pressures of both global integration and local responsiveness. ... -
The Gomory-Chvátal closure : polyhedrality, complexity, and extensions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)In this thesis, we examine theoretical aspects of the Gomory-Chvátal closure of polyhedra. A Gomory-Chvátal cutting plane for a polyhedron P is derived from any rational inequality that is valid for P by shifting the ... -
Governing the human capitalists : ownership and authority in the advertising and airline industries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Theorists suggest the rising value of human capital will mean greater participation by employees in the ownership and governance of firms. This thesis explores aspects of these claims by analyzing the competitive effects ... -
Government growth in a fixed economy.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979) -
The "green" challenge to the industrial enterprise mindset : survival threat or strategic opportunity?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Growing a green job : essays on social movements and the emergence of a new occupation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Professions and occupations play a central role in shaping institutional arrangements, organizational forms, and individual organizations. I argue the emergence and development of new occupations should be among the central ... -
Headquarters on campus : student entrepreneurship and the ambivalence of incubation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Entrepreneurship increasingly takes place in universities, by faculty and students. Whereas the entrepreneurial pursuits of faculty have received significant scholarly attention, those of students have been largely neglected. ... -
Health care applications of optimal control theory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Heuristic sequencing of single and multiple component jobs.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965) -
Hierarchical integration of planning and control.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
Hierarchical production planning.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979) -
High dimensional revenue management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)We present potential solutions to several problems that arise in making revenue management (RM) practical for online advertising and related modern applications. Principally, RM solutions for these problems must contend ... -
How does the information environment affect information asymmetry around earnings announcements?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This paper shows that the information environment is an important determinant of private information acquisition and changes in information asymmetry around earnings announcements. I create a sample of earnings announcements ...
