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Nike's Product Recommendation System And Incorporation Of Ai, Quinton Truman Lamers

Undergraduate Theses, Professional Papers, and Capstone Artifacts

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Essays On Managerial Attributes And Corporate Finance, Juntai Lu

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

In my dissertation, I explore how managerial attributes affect corporate policies.

In my first essay, I examine the effects of public firm CEOs’ prior private equity (PE) target experiences on corporate policies. Based on difference-in-differences and propensity score matching analyses, public firm CEOs previously serving as CEOs in PE targets reduce investment by about 15 percent while enhancing patent values by over 7 percent after taking office compared to CEOs without such experiences. The effects are stronger if these CEOs (1) worked in targets invested by more reputable PE firms, (2) worked in targets invested by PE firms known for …

Less Commute Miles. Decreased Tire Wear. What Would You Do?, Dylan Schwarz, Brendon M. Ford, Brandon D. Hadinger, Abbie N. Pearce, Jacinta M. Pikunas

Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects

With the flagrant recognition of the coronavirus as one of those most impactful viruses in the history of the world, it is important to study how the effects of such a disease can create troublesome ripple effects in the world. Covid-19 has caused the death of hundreds of thousands of individuals and has negatively impacted the lives of American’s all across the country during the nationwide lockdown. Decreased work commuters, minimal road travel, and little need for car repairs hit the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company hard. The University of Akron has teamed up with Goodyear to explore such effects …

Outcomes Of Platform Openness In Complementary Markets, Franck Loic Soh Noume

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

Mobile platform ecosystems are hyper-competitive environments. They provide important entrepreneurial opportunities for businesses that develop mobile apps. Platform openness is foundational in mobile platform ecosystems as it enables interactions between complements and platform. Although there are several studies on the impact of platform openness, our understanding of the outcomes of platform openness remains limited. In this dissertation, we examine thoroughly underexplored facets of platform openness as well as understudied outcomes. In the first essay, we investigate the impact of platform openness on incumbent complements’ performance outcomes. We unravel important causal mechanisms related to competition dynamics between new entrants and incumbent …

Innovación En El Sector Textil: Incidencia De La Educación Sobre La Producción De Bienes Y Servicios Nuevos En La Industria Textil Para El Periodo 2007 - 2012, Jessica Andrea Nieto Martínez, Edwin David Ramírez Colorado, Julieth Tatiana Lozano Mondragón

Economía

La innovación tecnológica ha sido fundamental dentro de la evolución del mercado a nivel global, sin embargo, es necesario que dentro de la misma exista capital humano capacitado para que junto con la innovación se impulse la optimización de la productividad de las empresas y a gran escala el crecimiento económico de las naciones. Por lo tanto, el objetivo del presente trabajo es analizar la incidencia del nivel educativo para la producción de bienes o servicios en la industria textil para los años 2007 – 2012. Para el desarrollo de la investigación se realizó un estudio econométrico a partir de …

Innovación Y Tecnología En La Cadena Láctea: Un Acercamiento Desde El Eslabón Primario En Cundinamarca, Ángela Paola Ospina Junca

Economía

La investigación busca identificar los tipos de procesos tecnológicos y de espacios de innovación que se incorporan en las fases de la cadena productiva de ganadería especializada en leche como aspectos fundamentales para contribuir en el desarrollo local del sector y del departamento de Cundinamarca. Para esto, se realizó un ejercicio de acercamiento a los agentes involucrados en el sector que por un lado está conformado por los ganaderos de fincas de lechería especializada (eslabón primario) caracterizando dichos procesos al interior de la producción de la finca y la integración existente con otros actores de la cadena, incluyendo el análisis …