Browsing Management - Ph.D. / Sc.D. by Title
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Allocation of natural gas in times of shortage : a mathematical programming model of the production, transmission, and demand for natural gas under Federal Power Commission regulation.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1975) -
Analysis and optimization of terminal area air traffic control operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991) -
Analysis of a production-inventory system under a stationary demand process and forecast updates
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
Analysis of employee stock options and guaranteed withdrawal benefits for life
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)In this thesis we study three problems related to financial modeling. First, we study the problem of pricing Employee Stock Options (ESOs) from the point of view of the issuing company. Since an employee cannot trade or ... -
Analysis of linear programming relaxations for a class of connectivity problems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990) -
An analysis of the operating performance and financial statement disclosures associated with corporate restructurings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1998) -
Analytic search methods in online social networks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)This thesis presents and evaluates methods for searching and analyzing social media data in order to improve situational awareness. We begin by proposing a method for network vertex search that looks for the target vertex ... -
Analytical essays on marketing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
An analytics approach to problems in health care
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)Health care expenditures in the United States have been increasing at unsustainable rates for more than thirty years with no signs of abating. Decisions to accept or reject deceased-donor kidneys offered to patients on the ... -
Analytics for financing drug development
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Financing drug development has a particular set of challenges including long development times, high chance of failure, significant market valuation uncertainty, and high costs of development. The earliest stages of ... -
Analytics for Improved Cancer Screening and Treatment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Cancer is a leading cause of death both in the United States and worldwide. In this thesis we use machine learning and optimization to identify effective treatments for advanced cancers and to identify effective screening ... -
Analytics for online markets
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Online markets are becoming increasingly important in today's world as more people gain access to the internet. Furthermore, the explosion of data that is collected via these online markets provides us with new opportunities ... -
Analytics in promotional pricing and advertising
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Big data and the internet are shifting the paradigm in promotional pricing and advertising. The amount of readily available data from both point-of-sale systems and web cookies has grown, enabling a shift from qualitative ... -
Analyzing the make-to-stock queue in the supply chain and eBusiness settings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001)This thesis presents two applications of the prototypical make-to-stock queue model that are mainly motivated by supply chain management and e-commerce issues. In the first part, we consider the decentralized version of ... -
Answer garden : a tool for growing organizational memory
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
Apostles and brigadistas : industrial transformation with social gains in two Central American agro-industries
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)This dissertation offers an ideational account of the industrial transformation with social gains of two Central American agro-industries during the 1980s and 1990s, the Guatemalan sugar and Nicaraguan cheese industries. ... -
Applications of optimal portfolio management
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)This thesis revolves around applications of optimal portfolio theory. In the first essay, we study the optimal portfolio allocation among convergence trades and mean reversion trading strategies for a risk averse investor ... -
Applications of robust optimization to queueing and inventory systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis investigates the application of robust optimization in the performance analysis of queueing and inventory systems. In the first part of the thesis, we propose a new approach for performance analysis of queueing ... -
Applying institutional theory to the study of the multinational enterprise : parental control and isomorphism among personnel practices in American manufacturers in Japan
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1994) -
An approximate dynamic programming approach to discrete optimization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)We develop Approximate Dynamic Programming (ADP) methods to integer programming problems. We describe and investigate parametric, nonparametric and base-heuristic learning approaches to approximate the value function in ...
