Browsing Management - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Negotiation and deliberation in Mexico's democratization process : six cases of legal reform
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)This dissertation identifies political practices that increase negotiation effectiveness and democratic legitimacy simultaneously, as key enabling factors for democratization from within a hybrid regime. This finding runs ... -
Network flow problems and congestion games : complexity and approximation results
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)(cont.) We first address the complexity of finding an optimal minimum cost solution to a congestion game. We consider both network and general congestion games, and we examine several variants of the problem concerning the ... -
New algorithms in machine learning with applications in personalized medicine
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Recent advances in machine learning and optimization hold much promise for influencing real-world decision making, especially in areas such as health care where abundant data are increasingly being collected. However, ... -
New applications in Revenue Management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Revenue Management (RM) is an area with important advances in theory and practice in the last thirty years. This thesis presents three different new applications in RM with a focus on: the firms' perspective, the government's ... -
New approaches for integrating revenue and supply chain management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)First, we describe a general framework called online customer selection that describes natural settings where suppliers must actively select which customer requests to serve. Unlike traditional revenue management models ... -
New approaches to idea generation and consumer input in the product development process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004)This thesis consists of five related essays which explore new approaches to help design successful and profitable new products. The primary focus is the front end of the process where the product development team is seeking ... -
New approaches to maximizing influence in large-scale social networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)With the widespread adoption of social media in today's society, the problem of identifying the most influential individuals whose adoption of a product or action will spread maximally in the network is of increased practical ... -
New neighborhood search algorithms based on exponentially large neighborhoods
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)A practical approach for solving computationally intractable problems is to employ heuristic (approximation) algorithms that can find nearly optimal solutions within a reasonable amount of computational time. An improvement ... -
New optimization approaches to matrix factorization problems with connections to natural language processing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)In this thesis, we propose novel formulation optimization methods for four matrix factorization problems in depth: sparse principal component analysis, compressed sensing, discrete component analysis, and latent Dirichlet ... -
A new perspective on multi-echelon inventory systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)We present a new methodology for analyzing multi-echelon inventory systems. The methodology relies on decomposing complicated multi-echelon inventory control problems into much smaller and managable subproblems, whose ... -
New procedures for visualizing data and diagnosing regression models
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis presents new methods for exploring data using visualization techniques. The first part of the thesis develops a procedure for visualizing the sampling variability of a plot. The motivation behind this development ... -
New product strategy in the technology-based firm : product technology, market strategy, and performance
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1986) -
New products in old organizations : the myth of the better mousetrap in search of the beaten path
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987) -
New statistical techniques for designing future generation retirement and insurance solutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This thesis presents new statistical techniques for designing future generation retirement and insurance solutions. It addresses two major challenges for retirement and insurance products: asset allocation and policyholder ... -
Newton's method for parametric center problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
Nonconvex robust optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)We propose a novel robust optimization technique, which is applicable to nonconvex and simulation-based problems. Robust optimization finds decisions with the best worst-case performance under uncertainty. If constraints ... -
The O-D shortest path problem and connectivity problems on periodic graphs
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1992) -
On promotions and advertising policies : a strategic approach
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991) -
On proprietary disclosures of investment institutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)We analyze issues related to proprietary disclosures by specialized investment institutions such as hedge funds to their trading counterparties and creditors. In this paper, disclosure can be costly because of the potential ... -
On public debt and exchange rates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995)
