Browsing Management - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Paradoxes of hybrid organizing in the Cambridge Energy Alliance by Jason Jesurum Jay.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Hybrid organizations combine institutional logics, often in a search for novel solutions to complex problems such as climate change. This dissertation explores the conditions under which hybrid organizations are effective ... -
Partnership between line and I/S managers--a management model
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
Patterns of international business activity in an eastern European country : the case of Bulgaria
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
Performance analysis of manufacturing systems under hybrid control policies
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Performance and welfare effects of work restructuring : evidence from telecommunications services
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Performance evaluation of distributed systems with unbalanced flows : an analysis of the INFOPLEX data storage hierarchy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1985) -
Personalized diabetes management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)In this thesis, we present a system to make personalized lifestyle and health decisions for diabetes management, as well as for general health and diet management. In particular, we address the following components of the ... -
Phantom work : design iteration timing in new product development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)As companies compete to gain market share, increase profits and affect growth they often turn to concurrent engineering in an effort to bring new products to the market more quickly. Despite many anecdotal success stories, ... -
The photochemical industry : historical essays in business strategy and internationalization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986) -
Planning and control of an unreliable machine in a multi-item production-inventory system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
A policy structure for monetary control decisions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
Political risk management and its implications in the presence of a buyout option
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Polyhedral structure of a capacitated network design problem with an application to the telecommunication industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1989) -
Polyhedral structure of the product cycling problem with changeover costs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
Portfolio choices with taxes
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)I analyze the intertemporal portfolio problem of an investor who has access to both taxable and tax-deferred (retirement) accounts. In a complete-market setting, through a tax-arbitrage argument, I show that tax-deferred ... -
Portfolio risk minimization under departures from normality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis revisits the portfolio selection problem in cases where returns cannot be modeled as Gaussian. The emphasis is on the development of financially intuitive and statistically sound approaches to portfolio risk ... -
Portfolio strategies in supply contracts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)Traditionally, industrial buyers have focused on long-term contracts for many of their purchasing needs. Recently, however, some high-tech manufacturers have started looking at more flexible contracts for non-strategic ... -
Practical applications of large-scale stochastic control for learning and optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)This thesis explores a variety of techniques for large-scale stochastic control. These range from simple heuristics that are motivated by the problem structure and are amenable to analysis, to more general deep reinforcement ... -
Practices of power : meaning and legitimation in information technology consulting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
Prediction and optimization in school choice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)In this thesis, I study how data-driven optimization can be used to improve school choice. In a typical school choice system, each student receives a set of school options, called the student's menu. Based on his/her menu, ...
