Browsing Management - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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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 ... -
How free are free agents? : the relational structure of high-end contract work
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This dissertation evaluates the extent to which temporary work enables or constrains workers' careers, by moving beyond a polarized image of contingent employment as "free agency" versus "exploitation." I argue that, in ... -
How open should an open system be? : essays on mobile computing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)"Systems" goods-such as computers, telecom networks, and automobiles-are made up of multiple components. This dissertation comprises three essays that study the decisions of system innovators in mobile computing to "open" ... -
How should we measure the digital economy?
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Gross domestic product (GDP) measures production and is not meant to measure well-being. While many people nonetheless use GDP as a proxy for well-being, consumer surplus is a better measure of consumer well-being. This ... -
Immigration, inequality, and the state : three essays on the employment of foreign nationals in the United States
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This dissertation examines how U.S. immigration policies, as implemented by government agents, shape migration and key employment outcomes of foreign nationals. Using unique quantitative and qualitative data, never previously ... -
The impact of accounting for research and development on innovation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This paper examines whether a change in the accounting rule for research and development (R&D) cost is associated with changes in the innovation process. Specifically, I examine whether R&D expenditure, the number of patents ... -
The implementation dynamics of continuous improvement throughout the corporate hierarchy based on lean six sigma at DTE energy by Timothy David Quinn.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This dissertation comprises a case study and formal simulation model of DTE Energy's Lean Six Sigma continuous-improvement (CI) program from its inception in 1998 through the end of 2009. The case history is based on ... -
The implementation of social policy : an assessment of organizational capability.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1979) -
Implementing reusable solvers : an object-oriented framework for operations research algorithms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
The implications of unverifiable fair-value accounting : evidence from the political economy of goodwill accounting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)I study the evolution of Statement of Financial Accounting Standard (SFAS) # 142, which uses unverifiable fair-value estimates to account for acquired goodwill. I find evidence consistent with the Financial Accounting ... -
The improvement paradox : three essays on process improvement initiatives
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Improving behavioral decision making in operations and food safety management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)In Chapter 1, we design controlled laboratory experiments to investigate whether and how process-driven discussions may improve information sharing, information integration, and the resulting group performance in collective ... -
Improving farmers' and consumers' welfare in agricultural supply chains via data-driven analytics and modeling : from theory to practice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)The upstream parts of the agricultural supply chain consists of millions of smallholder farmers who continue to suffer from extreme poverty. The first stream of research in this thesis focuses on online agri-platforms which ... -
In search of the paperless office : the structuring waves of technological change
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993)
