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Admissions & Financial Aid - MBA
Sciences Program by checking the appropriate box on the application. Choose an HBS application round in which to apply. Submit all materials required for both the MBA and Master of Science applications. Required for MBA: application form, resume, official...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation
Tagging is a free lunch in conventional optimal tax theory because it eases the classic tradeoff between efficiency and equality. But tagging is used in only limited ways in tax policy. I propose one explanation: conventional optimal tax theory has yet to capture the...
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Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Cost;
Framework;
Policy;
Taxation;
Analytics and Data Science;
Performance Efficiency;
United States
Weinzierl, Matthew. "~Why Do We Redistribute so Much but Tag so Little? Normative Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-064, January 2012. (Revised August 2012. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18045, August 2012)
- Web
Tuition Assistance - MBA
financial aid team determines financial need based on the following factors: Gross income from prior three years Assets Socioeconomic background Undergraduate debt Scholarships are based on a standardized formula for all students....
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- 25 Feb 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency
- November 2002 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Forest Stewardship Council
By: James E. Austin and Ezequiel Reficco
In just a few years the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) made impressive progress toward its mission of promoting "environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial, and economically viable management of the world's forests." By 2001, 25.5 million hectares of forests in...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Corporate Governance;
Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability;
Competitive Strategy
Austin, James E., and Ezequiel Reficco. "Forest Stewardship Council." Harvard Business School Case 303-047, November 2002. (Revised May 2006.)
- 2007
- Book
Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Edward Weisband
This edited volume contributes analytical depth to the diverse debates on accountability in modern organizations. It explores the nature, forms and impacts of accountability efforts in civil society organizations, public and inter-governmental agencies, and private...
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Keywords:
Ethics;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Corporate Accountability;
Business and Government Relations
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and Edward Weisband. Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
- Web
Who Are We Looking For? - MBA
our MBA experience - including the case method, section life, and student-organized events - requires the active collaboration of the entire HBS community. That's why we look for students who exhibit the highest ethical standards and...
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- 2010
- Book
Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads
By: Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin and Patrick Cullen
"Business Schools Face Test of Faith." "Is It Time to Retrain B-Schools?" As these headlines make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Transformation;
Business Education;
Curriculum and Courses;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Problems and Challenges
Datar, Srikant M., David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen. Rethinking the MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads. Boston: Harvard Business Press, 2010. (Selected by Strategy + Business as one of the Best Business Books of 2010.)
- Article
Sales Managers Must Manage
A common complaint from C-level executives about their sales colleagues concerns the latter’s ability to manage, not sell. Nearly every firm has examples of successful salespeople who are poor managers because they persist in their behaviors as reps rather than...
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Cespedes, Frank V. "Sales Managers Must Manage." Top Sales Magazine (February 2019).
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Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment
By: Robert F. Engle, Guillaume Roussellet and Emil N. Siriwardane
We propose a statistical model of the term structure of U.S. treasury yields tailored for long-term probability-based scenario generation and forecasts. Our model is easy to estimate and is able to simultaneously reproduce the positivity, persistence, and factor...
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Keywords:
Forecasting;
Stress Testing;
Interest Rates;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Risk Management;
United States
Engle, Robert F., Guillaume Roussellet, and Emil N. Siriwardane. "Scenario Generation for Long Run Interest Rate Risk Assessment." Special Issue on Theoretical and Financial Econometrics: Essays in Honor of C. Gourieroux. Journal of Econometrics 201, no. 2 (December 2017): 333–347.
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De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution
By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of...
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Keywords:
Motivation and Incentives;
Income;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Consumer Behavior;
Taxation;
Microeconomics;
Macroeconomics
Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution." Journal of Public Economics 124 (April 2015): 74–80. (Also NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17784, September 2014 and Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-063, January 2012.)
- May 2008 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (A)
By: Anita Elberse and Jason Bergsman
In October 2007, the British band Radiohead caused a stir when it announced it would allow customers to decide how much to pay for its new album, released exclusively as a digital download and available only from the band's own website. The pricing plan represented a...
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Keywords:
Music Entertainment;
Price;
Marketing Strategy;
Distribution;
Problems and Challenges;
Online Technology;
Music Industry
Elberse, Anita, and Jason Bergsman. "Radiohead: Music at Your Own Price (A)." Harvard Business School Case 508-110, May 2008. (Revised September 2009.)
- 04 Jun 2013
- News
Can Good Financial Behavior Be Taught In High School?
- Article
Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership
Expanding fiduciary duty to leaders of health-related businesses can help leaders meet the challenges of caring for not only the corporation and shareholders but also the patients and medical professionals. How should leaders of health-related businesses weigh the...
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Margolis, Joshua D. "Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership." JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association 313, no. 18 (May 12, 2015): 1819–1820.
- 16 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
- 15 Oct 2020
- News
Sexism
- 2008
- Simulation
Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery
By: Willy C. Shih and Clayton Christensen
This online simulation allows students to play the role of a business unit manager at Back Bay Battery Company who faces the dilemma of balancing a portfolio of investment strategies across products in the rechargeable battery space. Players have to manage R&D...
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Keywords:
Competitive Strategy;
Disruptive Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Innovation and Management;
Investment;
Product Development;
Research and Development;
Battery Industry
Shih, Willy C., and Clayton Christensen. "Strategic Innovation Simulation: Back Bay Battery." Simulation and Teaching Note. Watertown, MA: Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008. Electronic. (2656-HTM-ENG.)
- May 9, 2024
- Article
Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It
Business schools have lost their way. Students are schooled in a system that, having raised the standard of living for millions of people over centuries, is now facing systemic failures in both the environmental and social domains—failures that market forces cause and,...
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Hoffman, Andrew J. "Business Education Is Broken: Here Are Strategies to Fix It." Inspiring Minds (May 9, 2024).
- March 2015
- Case
Guiding Professional Accountants to Do the Right Thing
By: Paul Healy, V.G. Narayanan and Penelope Rossano
The Ethics Advisory Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) provides training and support for member Chartered Accountants to help them deal with difficult professional situations. Members can seek help through call centers and...
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Healy, Paul, V.G. Narayanan, and Penelope Rossano. "Guiding Professional Accountants to Do the Right Thing." Harvard Business School Case 115-028, March 2015.