by Matthew Lyle - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says Harvard Business School's View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

eyeglasses that can be calibrated by the user to circumvent the need for an optometrist. The second, VisionSpring, follows a different approach, working to build a network of entrepreneurs who sell eyeglasses in their communities. Rather... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

Lawmakers, following public opinion rather than scholars' theories, have put in place very little tagging. Does this mean it's time to bury the Utilitarian approach? Not quite, says economist Matthew C. Weinzierl. The Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

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

15 Aug 2023
HBS Case

(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?

three-dimensional and social,” according to the case. Matthew Ball, author of the recently published book The Metaverse: And How it Will Revolutionize Everything, has described the future technology as a “massively scaled and... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Computer; Information Technology

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 C. Weinzierl, an economist... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

This Workplace Certification Made Already Safe Companies Even Safer

the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management. He partnered on the research with HBS doctoral student Kala Viswanathan and Duke University professor Matthew Johnson. Widespread adoption, but does the standard work? Some 2.8... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

15 Sep 2021
Video

Bystander Training Introduction with Matt Weinzierl

19 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?

theory, Zhu and Greenstein took a database of terms developed by University of Chicago economists Matthew Gentzkow and Jesse Shapiro to examine newspaper bias. Gentzkow and Shapiro studied speeches in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Publishing

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

management level.” If only they could be heard. Often these individuals remain buried in hierarchy, impacting only their isolated areas of influence. In the working paper Organizational Toolmaking: Transformations in the Influence of Experts, Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

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

16 Mar 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Amount and Diversity of Digital Emotional Expression Predicts Happiness

Keywords: by Laura Vuillier, Alison Wood Brooks, June Gruber, Rui Sun, Michael I. Norton, Matthew James Samson, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Paul Piff, Sarah Fan, Jordi Quoidbach, Charles Gorintin, Pete Fleming, Arturo Bejar, and Dacher Keltner

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

with Michael Ewens of the California Institute of Technology and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf of MIT Sloan School of Management. The researchers focus on one of the most important technological shifts in recent years—the introduction of Amazon... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

Opportunities and Challenges Facing Hybrid Organizations

In partnership with the MIT Enterprise Forum of the Central Coast, Spiranomics presents a conversation with Julie Battilana, Matthew Lee, and John Walker about the opportunities and challenges faced by hybrid organizations. View Details

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

database, which gives the hometown for each inventor on each patent. We developed methods to determine whether the two patents by "Lee Fleming" and "Lee O. Fleming" are from the same person (they are) and whether the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher—or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a result, the market's most... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

Americans are working longer hours than ever before, with the office increasingly stealing our leisure time. But according to new research by Anat Keinan, this hectic way of life is, for many of us, far from an unmitigated negative. In... View Details