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May 24, 2021 | NEWS

MPP PhD student awarded best doctoral thesis on Quality

André M. Carvalho, MIT Portugal PhD Student, awarded the 2020 Riccardo Dell’Anna Doctoral Dissertation Prize, by the International Academy for Quality (IAQ), with the best doctoral thesis on Quality.

The PhD thesis “Operational Excellence, Culture and Agility: key concepts for the management of technological industries” was carried out under the MIT Portugal Program – Leaders for Technological Industries developed at Escola de Engenharia da Universidade do Minho and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the supervision of Professor Paulo Sampaio and Eric Scott Rebentisch.

André is the first Portuguese researcher to win this award. His work will be presented in September at the IAQ conference, and is available for download here: https://lnkd.in/eE46ba5

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