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Description:: In my dissertation, I investigate how formal and informal structures within the board can affect key board outcomes. While each chapter introduces a relatively under-recognized player in the governance space—compensation consultants (Chapter 1), multi-committee directors (Chapter 2), and executive chairmen (Chapter 3)—the main theme connecting all three centers on the...
Subject:: Business administration
Creator:: Gai, Shelby Lun
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Description:: This dissertation contains three essays that study the operational challenges and business innovations in service industries. We investigate how service providers could use wisely designed business models and service systems to induce preferable customer behaviors, and therefore manage demand and optimize revenue. Using a stylized model, we study how customers...
Keyword:: Revenue Management, Service Operations, Empirical Research, Online Platforms, Customer Behavior, and Queueing
Subject:: Business administration and Operations research
Creator:: Li, Simin
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/01/2021
Date Created:: 2020-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_749521 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15160

Description:: The dissertation consists of three self-contained papers. In Chapter 1, we study the inventory management problem in a dual sourcing system, where there are two supply sources or modes with different sourcing costs and lead times. We provide closed-form solutions to a robust optimization model for inventory management in a...
Keyword:: Dual sourcing, Behavioral operations, Inventory management, Robust optimization, Field experiment, and Warehouse operations
Subject:: Management, Business administration, and Operations research
Creator:: Sun, Jiankun
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: etdadmin_upload_663394 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14688

Description:: This dissertation contains four essays. The first essay, Strategically Giving Service: The Effect of Real-Time Information on Service Efficiency, analyzes the impact of the increased availability of real-time information on the behavior of strategic agents and the implications of this phenomenon for service efficiency using data from one of the...
Keyword:: service operations, operations management, and empirical operations
Subject:: Business administration
Creator:: KARACAOGLU Garro Beraza, Nil
Owner:: Scholarly Digital Publishing
Language:: en
Date Uploaded:: 02/12/2020
Date Created:: 2019-01-01
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Alternate Identifier:: http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:14611 and etdadmin_upload_661699

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