Thesis Titles

The PhD thesis is the culmination of a student’s work in the program—the student’s first major research effort and a launching pad into a career in academia. Some recent thesis titles are listed below. To request copies of an MIT thesis, please contact Institute Archives.

Accounting
Yuri Loktionov
Does Accounting Quality Mitigate Risk Shifting?

Finance
Jialan Wang
Essays in Human Capital and Financial Economics

Marketing
Matthew Selove
Three Essays on Strategic and Tactical Issues in Product Design

Operations Management
Anshuman Tripathy
Work Distribution in Global Product Development Organizations

Organization Studies
Jason J. Jay
Paradoxes of Hybrid Organizing in the Cambridge Energy Alliance

System Dynamics
Joe Hsueh
Dynamics of High Performance Work Practices and Shared Capitalism Policies in a Startup Company

Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, & Strategic Management
Ethan Mollick
Essays on Individuals and Organizations