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Showing 1 to 20 of 4917 for “"Managing"”.
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Supply chain disruptions : managing risks vs. managing crises
… and uses these examples to demonstrate how managing crises is more costly than managing risks. In examining the events surrounding the sole-supplier bankruptcy, managing a crisis cost this specialty chemical company 45% more money than managing a risk. Through the findings of these two …
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Managing developer interruption
The high frequency of interruptions during cognitively-intense activities can be annoying and detrimental to deadline-driven work, such as software development. When developers are interrupted they not only lose productivity from the time spent attending to the interruption but also from the time …
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Managing interprocedural optimization
This dissertation addresses a number of important issues related to interprocedural optimization. Interprocedural optimization is an integral component in a compilation system for high-performance computing. The importance of interprocedural optimization stems from two sources: it increases the …
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Managing for performance
… of a performance management approach to managing people in a very uncertain environment as well as the learning that took place, and also provides a review of the context in which the research methodology, which in this case was Action Research, was firstly chosen and then utilised. The …
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Managing subsystem commonality
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics; and, (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology and Policy Program, February, 2001.
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Managing Self-Scheduling Capacity
Gig-economy platform like Uber, Lyft, Postmates, and Instacart have created markets in which independent service providers provide on-demand service to consumers. A hallmark of this arrangement is that providers decide for themselves when, where, and how much to work. In other words, the platform …
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Managing technological innovation projects
Technological innovation is the whole process that turns ideas into income and is becoming strategically important for creating and offering customers new choice. Traditional project management is often used to deal with discrete parts of innovation processes and involves having substantially …
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Managing emotions through eating
… practitioners working with men who struggle with managing their emotions and turn to food in attempt to cope.
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Managing Many-Core Aging
Many-core scaling now faces a power wall. The gap between the number of cores that fit on a die and the number that can operate simultaneously under the power budget is rapidly increasing with technology scaling. In future designs, the majority of the cores will necessarily have to be dormant at …
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Essays on managing innovation
This dissertation investigates how choices by managers in research and entrepreneurial settings affect innovation and entrepreneurial outcomes. In the first three chapters, my coauthors and I consider the role of grant-makers in inducing exploitation or exploration among grant recipients at ARPA-E. …
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Managing service quality by managing the service encounter : the effects of organizational socialization strategies
This research was undertaken primarily to develop a conceptual model of service quality showing the Organizational Socialization-Service Quality linkage. Two organizational socialization strategies, namely, Formal and Informal socialization were conceptualized to influence the participants in the …
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Managing Ubiquitous Scientific Knowledge Objects
Scientific discourse, as the basic unit of dissemination and exploitation of research results, has steadily enhanced their accessibility and reusability in response to the advancement of web technologies. A highly semantic enriched publication always makes its information and data much easier to …
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Managing Fire Mosaics for Biodiversity
The Canadian boreal forest is the largest and most intact forest remaining on the planet. Since the last glacial period, it has been shaped by recurrent and extensive stand-replacing wildfires that have given rise to a mosaic of habitat patches varying in age, extent, and wildfire history. Recent …
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Managing resource constraints in firms
Small, new or foreign firms inherently have a lower likelihood of surviving in the market. Frequently, this is due to the existence of resource constraints, such as the liabilities of smallness, newness or foreignness. Consequently, to survive in the market, small, new or foreign firms need to find …
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