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Management: Inventing and Delivering Its Future
Kochan, Thomas A. (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
The MIT Sloan School of Management, as conceived by the legendary General Motors chairman Alfred P. Sloan, was founded … in 1952 to draw on the scientific and technical resources of MIT and approach the problems of management with the … business and management, MIT faculty, students, and alumni to address again the basic principles that should guide business and …
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Operation Rules: Delivering Customer Value through Flexible Operations
Simchi-Levi, David - The MIT Press
In recent years, management gurus have urged businesses to adopt such strategies as just-in-time, lean manufacturing … strategies. And he offers a set of scientifically and empirically based rules that management can follow to achieve a quantum … information technology--transform operations and supply chain management from an undertaking based on gut feeling and anecdotes to …
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The Innovator's Way: Essential Practices for Successful Innovation
Denning, Peter J.; Dunham, Robert - The MIT Press
Innovation is the ruling buzzword in business today. Technology companies invest billions in developing new gadgets; business leaders see innovation as the key to a competitive edge; policymakers craft regulations to foster a climate of innovation. And yet businesses report a success rate of only...
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Student Solutions Manual to Accompany Health Economics
Sloan, Frank A.; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey - The MIT Press
Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance students’ economic understanding of how health care institutions and markets function. It views the subject in both microeconomic and macroeconomic terms, moving from the individual and firm level to the market...
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The Economics of Collusion: Cartels and Bidding Rings
Marshall, Robert C.; Marx, Leslie M. - The MIT Press
Explicit collusion is an agreement among competitors to suppress rivalry that relies on interfirm communication and/or transfers. Rivalry between competitors erodes profits; the suppression of rivalry through collusion is one avenue by which firms can enhance profits. Many cartels and bidding...
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Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications
Eppinger, Steven D.; Browning, Tyson R. - The MIT Press
engineering management, DSM is increasingly being applied to complex issues in health care management, financial systems, public … integration, knowledge management, and others). …
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Information and the Modern Corporation
Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press
work processes and tracing flows of information across supply-chain management, product development, customer relations …
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Gurus and Oracles: The Marketing of Information
Sarvary, Miklos - The MIT Press
We live in an “Information Age” of overabundant data and lightning-fast transmission. Yet although information and knowledge represent key factors in most economic decisions, we often forget that data, information, and knowledge are products created and traded within the knowledge economy....
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Health Economics
Sloan, Frank A.; Hsieh, Chee-Ruey - The MIT Press
This book introduces students to the growing research field of health economics. Rather than offer details about health systems around the world without providing a theoretical context, Health Economics combines economic concepts with empirical evidence to enhance readers’ economic...
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Unfinished Business: Agenda for Labor, Management, and the Public
Siegel, Abraham J. (contributor);  … - The MIT Press
anniversary of the institute's Industrial Relations Section and the 25th anniversary of its Alfred P. Sloan School of Management …
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