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- 2012
- Working Paper
~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation
Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Framework; Policy; Taxation; Analytics and Data Science; Performance Efficiency; United States
Weinzierl, Matthew. "~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-064, January 2012. (Revised August 2012. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18045, August 2012)
- 04 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.
ability to collect and analyze more data more quickly, decision-making and problem-solving have become increasingly complex. Many people look to technology to solve modern problems, but the more technology advances, the more human... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Research Summary
Research Summaries
Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success. His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.
Social Capital... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
a climate risk data provider that gives businesses and governments the analytics to build climate resilience. By leveraging state-of-the-art climate risk modeling, Climate X quantifies the impact of physical... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation
By: Dae Woong Ham, Michael Lindon, Martin Tingley and Iavor Bojinov
Randomized experiments have become the standard method for companies to evaluate the performance of new products or services. In addition to augmenting managers’ decision-making, experimentation mitigates risk by limiting the proportion of customers exposed to... View Details
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Research and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Consumer Behavior
Ham, Dae Woong, Michael Lindon, Martin Tingley, and Iavor Bojinov. "Design-Based Confidence Sequences: A General Approach to Risk Mitigation in Online Experimentation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-070, May 2023.
- Fast Answer
Patent search: A comparative table of databases
analytical solutions. The following resource suggestions include two parts: patent databases our library subscribe, and some commonly used patent authorities' databases that are open.to the public. Databases that requires HBS or... View Details
- 08 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team
Recruitment and selection are now more important for various reasons. Due to the data and analytical tasks facing many sales forces, productivity ramp-up times have increased. Each hire then represents a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
generated rich empirical data that in some cases confirms and in other cases contradicts many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines, says Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, who edited the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Online Business Essential Courses | HBS Online
$2,650 Credential Certificate Courses (3) Business Analytics Professor Janice Hammond Unlock actionable insights by mastering data analysis techniques to solve real-world business challenges and drive... View Details
- Web
Health Care - Faculty & Research
top U.S. health administration schools and a recent article in the Lancet, our educational systems focus their curricula on isolated,theoretical subjects, such as analytics and quantitative problem solving, rather than the team-oriented,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
the question is extended more broadly to organizations in general, there is little for us to go on in responding to the question. The impact of culture on performance has interested me for several decades, having teamed in 1992 with John Kotter to explore the subject.... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
incidents amounted to about 5 percent of the pool of workers studied over the three-year period. “If I was [studying] paper clip stealing and all that, then it should probably be 75 percent,” Minor says. Minor’s co-author, Michael Housman, chief View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
borrowing to the way preschoolers play. “Put aside your differences, and, like kids, find something that works,” he says. 3. Know when to ignore the data At a time when data View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
School Case 618-016 Viacom: Democratization of Data Science In two short years, Viacom’s Data Science & Advanced Analytics team built a web platform called Science Central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
them," says Goh. Making The Stress-health Connection Unlike in Europe, little or no data exists in the US that correlates exposure to workplace stress with health outcomes or health care costs. Goh tackles that gap in a new working... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
developers, and employees that AI and its associated investments in data and analytics had become essential to the company’s business and operating models. Virtually every aspect of Google was going to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
discussions that make the case method such a powerful learning experience. In a related step, for the first time this year, we are offering an RC course called Data Science for Managers to help students, as general managers, use View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
not about how well you answered questions in an interview. You need to put in place processes that give you more data about the person’s behavioral fit.” And once on staff, workers benefit from constructive feedback. So companies should... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
Abstract Key to the effective use of big data are the analytical professionals known as "data scientists," who can both manipulate large and unstructured data sources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne