Publications related to Strategic thinking

Discovering Lobby-Parliamentarian Alignments through NLP

Matthias Grossglauser, Victor Kristof, Aswin Suresh

We discover alignments of views between interest groups (lobbies) and members of the European Parliament (MEPs) by automatically analyzing their texts. Specifically, we do so by collecting novel datasets of lobbies’ position papers and MEPs’ speeches, and ...

2024

CEO networks and the labor market for directors?

Rüdiger Fahlenbrach, Hyemin Kim

Directors at firms with well-connected CEOs are more likely to obtain directorships at firms that are connected to the CEOs. Recommended directors do not become beholden to the CEO. Reciprocity is an important determinant of recommendations because CEOs ar ...

ELSEVIER2023

Maneuvering the odds: The dynamics of venture capital decision-making

Marc Gruber

Research Summary: This article investigates venture capital (VC) decision-making, a process that occurs under changing conditions and limited, ambiguous information. We shed new light on the inherent dynamics of this strategic process. One of the key disti ...

WILEY2023

An Ontology-based Engineering system to support aircraft manufacturing system design

Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

During the conceptual design phase of an aircraft manufacturing system, different industrial scenarios need to be evaluated against performance indicators in a collaborative engineering process. Domain experts' knowledge and the motivations for decision-ma ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Spatial Layout Optimization. Guideline: Analysis

Yves Pedrazzini, Lesslie Astrid Herrera Quiroz

The main objective of this project is to generate guidance for settlement planning on the optimisation of spatial designs in terms of: zoning, densification/decongestion, morphology of the built environment and strategic planning of public open space. Simi ...

EPFL LASUR and GTH UNCHR2022

(from) the repertoire : an architectural theory of operations. Oral and embodied knowledge in architectural and spatial practices

Julien Lafontaine Carboni

How can one construct spatial histories and architectural theories from gestures, words and voices, bodies and minor threads? This research delves into oral and embodied architectural and spatial knowledge as modes of producing buildings, spaces and spati ...

EPFL2022

How do users interact with Virtual Geographic Environments? Users' behavior evaluation in urban participatory planning

Jens Ingensand, Thibaud Nicolas Chassin

For the past twenty years, the adoption of Virtual Geographic Environments is thriving. This democratization is due to numerous new opportunities offered by this medium. However, in participatory urban planning these interactive 3D geovisualizations are st ...

COPERNICUS GESELLSCHAFT MBH2021

Leaking Secrets Through Compressed Caches

Daniel Felipe Forero Sanchez

We offer the first security analysis of cache compression, a promising architectural technique that is likely to appear in future mainstream processors. We find that cache compression has novel security implications because the compressibility of a cache l ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2021

OUR COMMON SOILS: West Lausanne Urbanization as Anthropedogenesis, A Section through the Spaces and Times of Urban Soils

Antoine Vialle

Motivated by ever-increasing soil degradation and artificialization due to past and present urban growth dynamics, the current trend of spatial planning policies at the European and Swiss levels is promoting increased soil protection, by avoiding new devel ...

EPFL2021

Sustainability as a Competitive Tool for the Brave? Or for the Best? A Behavioral Theory Perspective

Lorenzo Massa

Who invests in sustainability as a strategic choice? We adopt a behavioral theory perspective to explain the heterogeneity of sustainability-driven investments. Building on problemistic search and organizational inertia arguments, and contrary to resource- ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC2020

Mapping Urbanization as an Anthropedogenetic Process: A Section through the Times of Urban Soils

Antoine Vialle

Current trends of spatial planning policies give a strategic role to soils, the multifunctionality of which must be considered as a crucial driver facing cities’ forthcoming social-ecological transition. However, soils within urban areas are insufficiently ...

2020

Transforming knowledge systems for life on Earth: Visions of future systems and how to get there

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

Formalised knowledge systems, including universities and research institutes, are important for contemporary societies. They are, however, also arguably failing humanity when their impact is measured against the level of progress being made in stimulating ...

ELSEVIER2020

The shaping effects of innovation and technology: from micro business model evolution to macro environment sustainability

Qinli Lu

Innovation is a prerequisite guarantee for the development of a country in this new era. It is an important driver not just for corporate growth but also for national social and economic transformation. Considering the strategic supporting role of innovati ...

EPFL2020

Key Performance Indicators for Decision Making in Building Energy Systems

François Maréchal, Luc Girardin, Luise Middelhauve, Alessio Santecchia

Policy makers and energy operator have the responsibility to select indicators for their mission to lead the renewable energy transition ensuring energy independence and security of supply in the context of decarbonisation of the energy mix and and/or nucl ...

2020

TERRE project: interplay between unsaturated soil mechanics and low-carbon geotechnical engineering

Alessio Ferrari, Jacopo Zannin, Gianluca Speranza

The geotechnical construction industry is a major component of the overall construction sector and is strategically important in infrastructure development (transportation, flood and landslide protection, building foundations, waste disposal). Although ind ...

E D P SCIENCES2020

Potentials of Negative Emissions in the Design of Climate Agreements

Marc Vielle, Frédéric Louis François Babonneau, Alain Haurie

The aim of this paper is to explore the long-term relevance of negative emissions for the attainment of Paris agreement goals. For this purpose, we extend a game theoretic meta-model used to assess the future of Paris agreement to the time horizon 2100 and ...

2019

Innovation capacity of the agricultural sector: network of productive interactions, knowledge transfer and differentiation mechanisms

Camille Marguerite Aouinait

Economic growth is increasingly explained and driven by knowledge acquisition and firmsâ capabilities to adapt to new evolving situations to fit economic, societal and environmental frames. Strategic behavior of private companies in differentiating and p ...

EPFL2019

Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation Integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy

Myrna Fatima Flores Pineda

This paper discusses Five Management Pillars for Digital Transformation integrating the Lean Thinking Philosophy. It proposes a "Digital Lean Transformation Framework" where its five management pillars - (Digital) Strategic Management, Processes (Re-)Engin ...

IEEE2019

Strategic advantages of reactive polyiodide melts for scalable perovskite photovoltaics

Michael Graetzel, Andrey Petrov

Despite tremendous progress in efficiency and stability, perovskite solar cells are still facing the challenge of upscaling. Here we present unique advantages of reactive polyiodide melts for solvent- and adduct-free reactionary fabrication of perovskite f ...

Nature Publishing Group2019

“A particular species” urban utility companies in Germany and Switzerland

Susan Marie Mühlemeier

This article presents the characteristics of urban utility companies in Germany and Switzerland and examines their challenges and strategic actions in the context of energy transition. In so doing, it explores a particular actor type in a communal infrastr ...

2018