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  • Paths to Innovation: How Businesses Achieve Competitive Advantage

    Creator:
    Oster, Dylan
    Abstract:
    To detail common paths followed by companies to produce innovative products, I reviewed existing literature and conducted several semi-structured interviews with a variety of people from different companies and fields. Based on this research, I found that most (but not all) innovative products follow a few general paths. These paths...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Jiyao Chen, Committee Member, representing Entrepreneurship & Strategy

  • A Functional Systems Approach to Comprehensive Emergency Management

    Creator:
    Al-AbdRabbuh, Sami
    Abstract:
    Both researchers and practitioners in fields related to emergency management (EM) use a variety of frameworks for different purposes including analysis, learning, and operations. Despite existing approaches in EM, such as comprehensive emergency management (CEM), the research community has been urged to construct a general normative theory for emergency management...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Sustainability assessment during early product development : the manufacturing case and the use case

    Creator:
    Seyedmahmoudighomi, Seyedhamed
    Abstract:
    The research explored in this thesis helps provide a better understanding of efforts that have been undertaken to more precisely calculate environmental impacts and human health risks, such as energy consumption, carbon footprint, and toxicity, to support environmental sustainability assessment of products. The work is comprised of two research objectives,...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Porter, Dr. Lisa Madsen, and Dr. Jiyao Chen for serving on my committee. My acknowledgment goes to Dr

  • Exploring Retention of Millennial-Aged Noninstructional Administrators in Washington Community Colleges

    Creator:
    Dotson, Tawny M.
    Abstract:
    Background. As community colleges are increasingly composed of Millennial-aged professionals, workforce retention of those professionals is now a major priority. The Millennial generation is more diverse and more likely to be impacted by technology than any generation before them and is a generation characterized by dual-income partnerships. These and other...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    , Dr. Bruce Clemetsen, Dr. David Blake, Dr. Robynn Pease, and Dr. Jiyao Chen, for your contributions