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  • February 2010
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The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

By: N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew C. Weinzierl
Should the income tax include a credit for short taxpayers and a surcharge for tall ones? The standard Utilitarian framework for tax analysis answers this question in the affirmative. Moreover, a plausible parameterization using data on height and wages implies a... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Wages; Personal Characteristics
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2.8 MBA Community Values Annual Report (2023) | MBA

day, everywhere. Matthew C. Weinzierl Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business Administration, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research Established in... View Details
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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics Course Number 1175 Professor Matthew Weinzierl Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Paper Course Overview Space is a place of unparalleled... View Details
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A Megastudy of Text-Based Nudges Encouraging Patients to Get Vaccinated at an Upcoming Doctor's Appointment

By: Katherine L. Milkman, Mitesh S. Patel, Linnea Gandhi, Heather N. Graci, Dena M. Gromet, Hung Ho, Joseph S. Kay, Timothy W. Lee, Modupe Akinola, John Beshears, Jonathan E. Bogard, Alison Buttenheim, Christopher F. Chabris, Gretchen B. Chapman, James J. Choi, Hengchen Dai, Craig R. Fox, Amir Goren, Matthew D. Hilchey, Jillian Hmurovic, Leslie K. John, Dean Karlan, Melanie Kim, David Laibson, Cait Lamberton, Brigitte C. Madrian, Michelle N. Meyer, Maria Modanu, Jimin Nam, Todd Rogers, Renante Rondina, Silvia Saccardo, Maheen Shermohammed, Dilip Soman, Jehan Sparks, Caleb Warren, Megan Weber, Ron Berman, Chalanda N. Evans, Christopher K. Snider, Eli Tsukayama, Christophe Van den Bulte, Kevin G. Volpp and Angela L. Duckworth
Many Americans fail to get life-saving vaccines each year, and the availability of a vaccine for COVID-19 makes the challenge of encouraging vaccination more urgent than ever. We present a large field experiment (N = 47,306) testing 19 nudges delivered to patients via... View Details
Keywords: Vaccination; COVID-19; Nudge; Influenza; Field Experiment; Health; Communication Strategy; Behavior
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  • 11 Oct 2024
  • News

Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

Harvard Business School hosted its annual fall Alumni Board Meeting in late September, bringing together its members for a three-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, a dinner and reception with MBA... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2011
  • News

Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

Management; Robert Z. Lawrence, Harvard Kennedy School; Josh Lerner, HBS; David A. Moss, HBS; Gary P. Pisano, HBS; Jan W. Rivkin, HBS; Michael E. Porter, HBS; William A. Sahlman, HBS; David S. Scharfstein, HBS; Willy C. Shih, HBS; Richard... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
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The new industrial state? | Institute for Business in Global Society

The economics of space and the rise of the commercial space industry By Matthew C. Weinzierl, et al. Understand the structure of space economics through cases on the U.S. space... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions

student body. “Affordability is of paramount importance because it enables people from all backgrounds, experiences, and interests to enroll at HBS,” says Matthew Weinzierl, the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 14 Jun 2024
  • News

Highlights from the Spring 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

Harvard Business School hosted its annual spring Alumni Board Meeting in late May, bringing together its members for a two-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, updates on Board working groups, and... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • News

China IFC: Global Access, Global Perspective

and their management teams.” The Business of Going Global, China-Style, one of six IFCs in the MBA Program’s Elective Curriculum in 2016, was designed and led by two faculty members with extensive knowledge of the region. Willy View Details
  • 01 Sep 2015
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Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

businesses to restructure, and ultimately restore the companies to financial health. That leaves everybody better off.” “Cashing Out: The Rise of M&A in Bankruptcy,” by Stuart Gilson, Edith Hotchkiss, and View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 27 May 2014
  • News

Crowdsourcing the Capitalist's Dilemma

discussion of "The Capitalist's Dilemma"—the challenges of innovating for long-term growth and job creation—in the Harvard Business Review. The team of more than 150 people (see below) collaborated using the OI Engine platform developed View Details
Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 01 Sep 2014
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Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities

forecast for revenue by an enormous amount and that requires some adjustment. We’ll have to either raise taxes or cut spending. People don’t always understand the technical details of these policies, but that’s really not the point. The... View Details
Keywords: April White; faculty research; writing
  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

  PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

categorization effect persisted regardless of whether the rewards were presented using a gain or loss frame. Using both moderation and mediation analyses, we found that categorizing rewards had these positive effects on motivation by... 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 Troshkin, Aleh Tsyvinski, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

behind Wildly Successful Initiatives by Jane C. Linder (MBA ’76, DBA ’89) (AMACOM Books) Based on a study of more than forty highly successful projects, Linder identifies five characteristics of such... View Details
Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy by Adrian C. Ott (MBA ’87) (Harper Business) 101 Things I Learned in Business School by Michael W.... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 15 Apr 2024
  • News

SPACE: The Final Frontier For Angel Investors?