Browsing Management - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Racing to market : an ethnography of new market development in the computer industry
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991) -
Rapid learning in high velocity environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This dissertation investigates how rapid learning occurs in high technology industries, many of which operate in what Bourgeois and Eisenhardt (1988) term "high velocity environments." The dissertation consists of three ... -
Recommendations, credits and discounts : essays in behavioral decision making
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)Essay 1: Translation Errors in the Aggregation of Consumer Recommendations There has been a substantial increase of websites providing consumers with recommendations about products and services. These recommendations are ... -
Reduced DoD product development time : the role of the schedule development process
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)According to the Packard Commission, "Unreasonably long acquisition cycles -- ten to fifteen years for major weapon systems is a central problem from which most other acquisition Problems stem." Since the commission issued ... -
Regression under a modern optimization lens
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)In the last twenty-five years (1990-2014), algorithmic advances in integer optimization combined with hardware improvements have resulted in an astonishing 200 billion factor speedup in solving mixed integer optimization ... -
Regulating exploration in multi-armed bandit problems with time patterns and dying arms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)In retail, there are predictable yet dramatic time-dependent patterns in customer behavior, such as periodic changes in the number of visitors, or increases in customers just before major holidays. The standard paradigm ... -
The relative effectiveness of two types of goals on the performance of simple versus complex tasks : the effect of experience
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
The relative importance of internal and external information in consumer choice environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
The remaking of the Polish industrial relations system : the institutional and ideational antecedents of firm-level employment practices
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1996) -
Renegotiation and the choice of covenants in debt contracts
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)I investigate whether and how expected future contract renegotiation considerations affect the type of covenants used in ex-ante debt contracts. I find that when future contract renegotiation costs are expected to be high, ... -
Repertoires of development in economic divergence on the U.S. - Mexico border
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This dissertation represents a new approach to the age-old social science problem of the underlying causes of economic development. It focuses on two initially very similar cross-border pairs of cities (McAllen, TX - ... -
Representing and reasoning about semantic conflicts in heterogeneous information systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Resistance from top to bottom : the dynamics of risk management in complex organizations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Organizations today devote substantial resources towards the development of governance systems to increase transparency and accountability in areas such as quality, safety, financial accounting, and environmental performance. ... -
Reskilling IS professionals : individual and organizational adaptation to software process innovations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Resource allocation in stochastic processing networks : performance and scaling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis addresses the design and analysis of resource allocation policies in largescale stochastic systems, motivated by examples such as the Internet, cloud facilities, wireless networks, etc. A canonical framework ... -
Resource development through the co-evolution of resources and scope
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999) -
Resource scheduling and optimization in dynamic and complex transportation settings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Resource optimization has always been a challenge both in traditional fields, such as logistics, and particularly so in most emerging systems in the sharing economy. These systems are by definition founded on the sharing ... -
Resources and capabilities in high-tech enterpreneurship : a study of two generations of Chinese startups
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002)By examining the origin and growth dynamics of two generations of high-tech startups in China's information technology sectors, this study presents empirical research on how Chinese technology startup companies, despite ... -
The restructuring of work in hospitals : an analysis of determinants and outcomes in information-based organization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
Revenue management and learning in systems of reusable resources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Many problems in revenue management and operations management more generally can be framed as problems of resource allocation. This thesis focuses on developing policies and guarantees for resource allocation problems with ...
