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    Matthew C. Weinzierl

    Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard Business School, where he is the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit, and a Research... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace
    • 2009
    • Book

    Financial Economics

    By: Zvi Bodie, Robert C. Merton and David L. Cleeton
    This book seeks to explain finance through its functions rather than its institutions, concentrating on the three pillars of finance: optimization over time, asset valuation, and risk management. View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Finance; Assets; Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation
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    • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 20 Nov 2023
    • Webinars: Career

    Tech in the Job Search: LinkedIn for Job Searching

    Data can reveal what matters most in today's job market, and this interactive webinar from CPD and Jeremy Schifeling, LinkedIn's former head of student and alumni education, will share behind-the-scenes insights that can help you optimize LinkedIn for both job hunting... View Details
    • 10 Nov 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

    their place. I do not claim that arbitrage to exploit differences is any more a complete strategic solution than the optimal exploitation of scale economies. To the contrary: If they are to get their global strategies right in the long... View Details
    Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

      Kai Krautter

      Kai is a PhD student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at the Harvard Business School. His research focuses on the challenges people experience in maintaining their passion over time, and “flextraversion,” which he defines as the ability to adapt one’s levels of... View Details
      • July 2018
      • Article

      Revisiting the Classical View of Benefit-Based Taxation

      By: Matthew Weinzierl
      This article incorporates into modern optimal tax theory the classical logic of benefit‐based taxation in which an individual's benefit from the activities of the state is tied to his or her income‐earning ability. First‐best optimal policy is characterized... View Details
      Keywords: Taxation; Theory; Policy
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      • August 2016 (Revised July 2017)
      • Background Note

      Brand Portfolio Strategy and Brand Architecture

      By: Jill Avery
      While companies choose to brand their products and services in many different ways, there are some central tenets that help define an optimal brand portfolio and associated brand architecture. Brand portfolio strategy involves the design, deployment, and management of... View Details
      Keywords: Brand Management; Brand Portfolio; Brand Extension; Brand Portfolio Strategy; Brand Architecture; Consumer Behavior; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy
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      • 13 Oct 2017
      • HBS Seminar

      Geoffrey Jones, Harvard Business School

      • June 1983
      • Article

      A Comparison of Tournaments and Contracts

      By: Jerry R. Green and Nancy Stokey
      Tournaments, reward structures based on rank order, are compared with individual contracts in a model with one risk-neutral principal and many risk-averse agents. Each agent's output is a stochastic function of his effort level plus an additive shock term that is... View Details
      Keywords: Tournaments; Contracts
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      • 29 Apr 2025
      • HBS Seminar

      Magie Cheng & David Huang

      • Article

      Orienteering for Electioneering

      By: Jonah Kallenbach, Robert Kleinberg and Scott Duke Kominers
      In this paper, we introduce a combinatorial optimization problem that models the investment decision a political candidate faces when treating his or her opponents’ campaign plans as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts... View Details
      Keywords: Political Elections; Resource Allocation; Time Management; Analysis
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      • 06 Sep 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      The Best Place for Retirement Funds

      and Harold Zhang, set out to derive rules for optimal asset location behavior for investors with these individually managed retirement accounts. Two results came out of this work: First, the optimal strategy... View Details
      Keywords: by Ann Cullen
      • 18 Apr 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Popular Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation

      Keywords: by Matthew C. Weinzierl
      • July 2005
      • Exercise

      Pricing for Profit: Multi-Part Pricing in the U.K. Credit Card Industry

      Examines the optimal pricing mechanism for credit cards. View Details
      Keywords: Credit Cards; Price
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      • 08 Mar 2016
      • Video

      Educating Global Leaders in China

      • May–June 2025
      • Article

      Slowly Varying Regression Under Sparsity

      By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vassilis Digalakis Jr, Michael Lingzhi Li and Omar Skali Lami
      We consider the problem of parameter estimation in slowly varying regression models with sparsity constraints. We formulate the problem as a mixed integer optimization problem and demonstrate that it can be reformulated exactly as a binary convex optimization problem... View Details
      Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science
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      • 01 Mar 2016
      • News

      Faculty Q&A: Price Check

      • January 1990 (Revised November 1992)
      • Case

      Competition and Product Variety

      Examines the choice of optimal product positioning in a differentiated goods market. View Details
      Keywords: Product Positioning; Competition
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      • 2009
      • Case

      Blaine Kitchenware, Inc.: Capital Structure: Brief Case No. 4040.

      By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Joel L. Heilprin
      A diversified mid-sized manufacturer of kitchen tools contemplates a stock repurchase in response to an unsolicited takeover. The company must analyze its debt capacity and optimal capital structure,while considering associated changes in firm value and stock price.... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Structure; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Taxation; Stocks; Consumer Products Industry
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        Design and Analysis of Switchback Experiments

        Switchback experiments, where a firm sequentially exposes an experimental unit to random treatments, are among the most prevalent designs used in the technology sector, with applications ranging from ride-hailing platforms to online marketplaces. Although... View Details