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  • 29 Jan 2018
  • Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

an ultimately viable complex solution. Of course this didn’t happen by accident, but rather was enabled by a particular type of leadership. For example, a Chilean geologist named Felipe View Details
Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
  • 10 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Debate Is Really About Social Values

Suddenly, the minimum wage debate is on high boil. Perhaps spurred by growing concern over wealth inequality, minimum wage proposals are heating heat up in cities from Chicago to Albany, and in states from South Carolina to Florida.... View Details
Keywords: by April White; Retail; Manufacturing
  • 20 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

part of, like owning an iPhone or watching a World Cup final? “In some ways, that's the really interesting thing” about where human commercial space flights lead us, says Matthew Weinzierl, the Joseph and Jacqueline Elbling Professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation
  • 29 Aug 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

A new space race—one fueled more by commercial conquest than intergalactic domination—is charting solutions to pressing problems in national security, climate change, and communication. With costs poised to drop and innovation on the... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Book Review

Review of Global Tax Fairness edited by Thomas Pogge and Krishen Mehta

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
This timely volume (Global Tax Fairness, edited by Thomas Pogge and Krishen Mehta) on the proper taxation of multinational enterprises argues that several feasible, near-term reforms could substantially narrow the scope for tax avoidance by closing information gaps,... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Global Range; Policy; Fairness
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  • March 2013
  • Book Review

Book Review of 'From Optimal Tax Theory to Tax Policy' by Robin Boadway

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl
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  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

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

tax system can help us get there" On a recent and unexpectedly warm day for a New England fall, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge sat down to discuss  tax policy in general and reform in particular with Professor Matthew... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

Science. The paper was authored by Stefan Dimitriadis, a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School; Matthew Lee, an assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD; Lakshmi... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Nov 2010
  • First Look

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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

process helps improve the dealer's profit by at least $269. These estimates suggest a potentially high return to taking the "information-based" approach to pricing idiosyncratic products. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

create a culture in which all employees can reach their full potential. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54503 Spring 2018 Journal of Economic Perspectives Space, the Final Economic Frontier By: Weinzierl, View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

investors. We view crises as opportunities. We, the non-politicians, need to accept responsibility for fixing the country and get on with it. matthew C. Weinzierl, Assistant Professor Of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 May 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

just one of several unsuccessful attempts by large airlines to compete with smaller, more focused, low-priced competitors. Then I picked up Stall Points, a book by Matthew S.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

by a public health organization are randomly allocated to four groups. Agents in the control group receive a standard volunteer contract often offered for this type of task, whereas agents in the three treatment groups receive small... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Rospil.info, coauthored with HBS professor Paul M. Healy and research associate Matthew Shaffer, focuses on the Russian anticorruption blogger Alexey Navalny, who advocates tech-savvy ways to expose and encourage prosecution of unethical... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

revealed that the last words of death-row inmates were more positive and less negative than the simulated last words of noninmates—and also that these last words were less negative than poetry written by death-row inmates. Together, these... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Teaching Interest

Space: Public and Commercial Economics

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it is in the midst of a revolution. In this course, we will learn about this revolution and the companies, such as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Axiom, Planet, and more. We will be joined by leaders in the... View Details

  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 16, 2016

frictions play a first-order role in determining market prices. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49425 Popular Acceptance of Inequality Due to Brute Luck and Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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