Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • The Power of Integrality: Linkages between Product Architecture, Innovation, and Industry Structure 

      Fixson, Sebastian K.; Park, Jin-Kyu (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-04-30)
      A substantial literature stream suggests that many products are becoming more modular over time, and that this development is often associated with a change in industry structure towards higher degrees of specialization. ...

    • System Dynamics Modeling of Humanitarian Relief Operations 

      Gonçalves, Paulo (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-06-02)
      Against the backdrop of over two hundred thousand people dead or missing and millions of people homeless after China’s massive earthquake and Myanmar devastating cyclone, forecasts estimate that natural and manmade disasters ...

    • Behavior Modes, Pathways and Overall Trajectories: Eigenvector and Eigenvalue Analysis of Dynamic Systems 

      Goncalves, Paulo (Camrbidge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008-05-09)
      One of the most fundamental principles in system dynamics is the premise that the structure of the system will generate its behavior. Such philosophical position has fostered the development of a number of formal methods ...