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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

Matthew C. Weinzierl Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program ; Senior Associate Dean, Chair, MBA Program Unit Business, Government and the International Economy Contact... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show that this is due to workers... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

to police its trademark by preventing others from using it to refer to something other than the Real Thing. Shareholder value is enhanced when a firm chooses an appropriate form of business organization, ranging from a limited liability company with pass-through View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 23 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 23

International Tax Competition Matthew C. Weinzierl, and Jacob KuipersHarvard Business School Case 710-038 How do (and how should) governments design fiscal policies to compete in a globalized economy while meeting View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2016
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August 16, 2016

Among those who pursued residency training, the most common specialties were internal medicine (39.3%), emergency medicine (10.4%), orthopedic surgery (9.2%), and general surgery (8.6%). Physician-MBAs trained in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment decisions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-105.pdf Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Mikhail Golosov, Maxim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

  PublicationsThe Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

such a way that talent is developed along with the business. Publisher's link: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/esm/doifinder/10.1057/9781137294678.0085 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Information and Two-Sided... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

    The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
    • 24 Oct 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

    concerns about that. The notion took hold that people at the top should pay some extra in income tax or the corporations should be asked to pay for some of the benefits that they were getting for being a part of the system. You got this advance of direct View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 19 Jan 2016
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    January 19, 2016

    and face disincentive effects from taxation but acquire positive benefits from public infrastructure. Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 26 Jan 2016
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    January 26, 2016

    Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June – July 2008
    • Article

    A Better Approach to Foreign Aid

    By: Justin Muzinich and Eric D. Werker
    Frustration with U.S. foreign aid is widespread. At the same time, flows of private development finance—including foreign direct investment and remittances—have begun to dwarf official aid. We suggest a new approach that harnesses the power of private development... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Taxation; Welfare or Wellbeing; United States
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    • 24 Jul 2014
    • Op-Ed

    Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

    in restricting the ability of firms to locate where it makes sense for them to be, but rather to create tax reform that makes US firms more competitive. Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Hatch, and Members of the Committee, it is a pleasure to appear before you today to... View Details
    Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
    • 23 Jun 2009
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    First Look: June 23

    communities, and make our cities smarter. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-141.pdf The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 11 Sep 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

    particularly when such concerns are heightened (Studies 5 & 6). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54782 July 2018 Economic Journal Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl,... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 18 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

    focused on the issue, corporations are turning the tax function into a profit center, says Desai, an expert on international corporate and public finance. In this e-mail interview, he discusses new ways businesses are looking to shrink... View Details
    Keywords: by Ann Cullen
    • June 2009
    • Journal Article

    Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities

    By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
    Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in... View Details
    Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Diversification; United States
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    • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
    • Case

    Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing

    By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
    In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; International Finance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Markets; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Europe; United States
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    • 07 Apr 2009
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    First Look: April 7, 2009

    between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace