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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 ...
Three essays in financial economics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In Chapter 1, I propose that abnormal returns generated by price momentum can be explained away within the framework of an existing risk factor model such as the Fama-French three-factor model. Two features of a systematic ...
Essays on corporate governance and investor disagreement
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
This thesis consists of two essays examining the roles of corporate governance and investor disagreement, respectively, in the performance and stock market valuations of firms. In the first chapter, I demonstrate that the ...
Statistical learning for decision making : interpretability, uncertainty, and inference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)
Data and predictive modeling are an increasingly important part of decision making. Here we present advances in several areas of statistical learning that are important for gaining insight from large amounts of data, and ...
Three essays on entrepreneurial quality
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)
This dissertation introduces a new method to measure entrepreneurial quality and applies it to three questions of theoretical interest in entrepreneurship. The dissertation is presented in five chapters. Chapter 1 is an ...
Essays on empirical asset pricing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)
This dissertation consists of three chapters. Chapter 1 shows that, for active mutual funds, historical in-sample alpha is a poor predictor of out-of-sample alpha. However, by focusing on a subset of skilled managers who ...
Data-driven optimization and analytics for operations management applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)
In this thesis, we study data-driven decision making in operation management contexts, with a focus on both theoretical and practical aspects. The first part of the thesis analyzes the well-known newsvendor model but under ...
Essays on status recognition and its consequences for top-talent mobility and productivity
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Organizations increasingly rely on status recognition to motivate members toward higher performance. Yet status recognition inevitably invites social comparisons. Although research in organization theory and strategy has ...
The effect of financial reporting on strategic investments : evidence from purchase obligations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
I examine whether mandating the disclosure of investments influences firms' strategic interactions. I exploit an SEC regulation requiring firms to report off-balance sheet purchase obligations, such as commitments to ...
Data-driven decision making in online and offline retail/
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
.Retail operations have experienced a transformational change in the past decade with the advent and adoption of data-driven approaches to drive decision making. Granular data collection has enabled firms to make personalized ...