Thesis Titles

The thesis is the culmination of a student's work in the PhD Program — the student's first major research effort and a launching pad into a career in academia. Here are titles of recent theses. The list is broken down by area of study.

Information Technologies

Aykut Firat, Northeastern University
Information Integration Using Contextual Knowledge and Ontology Merging

David Fitoussi, University of California, Irvine
Information Technology and Business Transformation: Work Location and the Allocation of Decision Rights

Nils Olaya Fonstad, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Understanding the Roles of Technology in Improvising

Yu Hu, Purdue University
Essays on Internet Markets and Information Goods

Xiaoquan Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Tapping into the Pulse of the Market: Essays on Marketing Implications of Information Flows

Marketing

On Amir, University of California, San Diego
Individual Decision Making: Pain, Rules, and Effort

Leonard Whee Chuen Lee, Columbia University
Money, Beer, and Toys: Essays in Consumer Decision Making

Jiwoong Shin, Yale University
The Role of Selling Costs in Retailing

Olivier Toubia, Columbia University
New Approaches to Idea Generation and Consumer Input in the Product Development Process

Robert Zeithammer, University of Chicago
Auction-Driven Markets

Operations Management and System Dynamics
Felipe Caro, University of California, Los Angeles
Dynamic Retail Assortment Models with Demand Learning for Seasonal Consumer Goods

Mila Getmansky, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
What Drives Hedge Fund Return? Models of Flows, Autocorrelation, Optimal Size, Limits to Arbitrage and Fund Failures

Hazhir Rahmandad, Virginia Tech
Essays on Modeling Dynamic Organizational Processes

Institute for Work & Employment Research

Matthew Bidwell, INSEAD-Singapore
What Do Firm Boundaries Do? Employment Relationships and Transaction Governance in Internal and Outsourced IT Projects

M. Isabel Fernandez-Mateo, London Business School
How Free Are Free Agents? The Relational Structure of High-End Contract Work

Natasha N. Iskander, New York University
Innovating Government: State Practices, Migration, and Development in Morocco and Mexico, 1964-2005

Sean Safford, London School of Economics
Why the Garden Club Couldn't Save Youngstown: Social Embeddedness and the Transformation of the Rust Belt

Technological Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Sarah Kaplan, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton
Framing the Future: Cognitive Frames, Strategic Choice, and Firm Response to the Fiber-Optic Revolution

Karim R. Lakhani, Harvard University
The Core and the Periphery in Distributed Innovation Systems

M. Lourdes Sosa, London Business School
Decoupling Market Incumbency from Organizational Experience: A Study of Biotechnology's Impact on the Market of Anti-Cancer Drugs

Organization Studies

Henrik Bresman, INSEAD
Team Learning Strategies and Performance in Organizational Teams

Jose Joao Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Making the Numbers: Agency in Computer-Generated Formal Representations of Saleswork

Katherine C. Kellogg, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Challenging Operations: Changing Identities, Interactions, and Institutions at a Surgical Teaching Hospital

Strategy & International Management

Kevin Boudreau, HEC Paris
How Open Should an Open System Be? Essays on Mobile Computing

Nicola Lacetera, Case Western Reserve University
The Organization of Research Activities in Industry and Academia: Managerial and Policy Implications

Andrew von Nordenflycht, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia
Governing the Human Capitalists: Ownership and Authority in the Advertising and Airline Industries

Financial Economics

Isil Erel, Ohio State University
Essays on Banking

Ilan Guedj, University of Texas, Austin
The Effect of Integration and Organization on Investment Decisions and Performance: Theory and Evidence from the Pharmaceutical Industry

Adam Kolasinski, University of Washington
Essays in Corporate Finance and Financial Institutions

Igor Makarov, London Business School
Three Essays in Capital Markets

Antti Petajisto, Yale University
Essays on Index Premia and Demand Curves for Stocks

Ioanid Rosu, University of Chicago
Limit Order Markets, Liquidity, and Price Impact

Albert Wang, Cornell University
Information and Trading Patterns in Financial Markets

Accounting & Control

Michelle M. Liu, The Pennsylvania State University
Accruals and Managerial Operating Decisions Over the Firm Life Cycle

Volkan Muslu, University of Texas, Dallas
Do Investors Understand Corporate Governance Characteristics and Accruals?

Yanfeng Xue, University of Texas, Austin
Essays on the Relation between Managers' Incentives and Financial Accounting Information

Jieying Zhang, University of Southern California
The Contracting Benefits of Accounting Conservatism to Lenders and Borrowers

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