Pooled Income Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

electoral participation. Negative shocks to income and rates of employment are also associated with increases in closure activity within counties over time. We interpret these results as consistent with involuntary consumer account... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

inventors who patent since 1920; a dataset of the employment, location, and patents of firms active in R&D since 1921; and a historical state-level corporate tax database since 1900, which we link to an existing database on state-level personal View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

companies and their shareholders. It’s no secret that companies with similar financials often pay very dissimilar amounts of tax in a given year. The same is true of individuals. One need look no further than Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

As Ban Ki-moon begins his tenure as secretary-general of the United Nations, the world's poor continue to cry out for help and hope. One-sixth of the world's population lives in "deep poverty"—generally defined as surviving on half or less of the annual View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

and income statement will have no market effect. But to argue that proper costing of stock options would have a significant adverse impact on companies that make extensive use of them is to admit that the economics of stock options, as... View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

Over the past two decades, there has been a tremendous boom in the venture capital industry. The pool of U.S. venture capital funds has grown from less than $1 billion in 1976 (Charles River Associates 1976)... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

parts. Implications for diversity research are discussed. Working PapersUnobserved State Fragility and the Political Transfer Problem Authors:Faisal Z. Ahmed and Eric Werker Abstract Autocrats experiencing a windfall in unearned income... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

operating cable systems, the sample companies' weighted average pretax income was only 3.1 percent of revenues. 19 This low profit margin reflected the interest expense associated with an average debt-to-equity ratio for the sample... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

The research, based in France, was prompted by an ongoing regulatory debate within the European Union. "In Europe, there has been intense discussion about taxing high incomes in general, and bankers in specific," Vallée explains. In the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

Many companies follow a tried-and-true approach to pursuing corporate social responsibility practices. They set aside a certain amount per year to fund a CSR office, which then tries to help clean up the environment or improve the quality of life of people in the areas... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

outsiders, including the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, is desired? No country can easily exist in a vacuum and cut itself off from the global economic marketplace, commented Spar. Given the complicated and often tragic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

leader. . . . If they do not generate wins for the team, a CEO should get what the rest of us get when we don't deliver: nothing." These suggestions leave us with some interesting questions. Can effective leaders of small organizations be considered as part of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

oversight over managers, ways in which compensation is pegged to performance, and ways in which value is increased in either the short or the long term. Many maintain that the accumulation of huge pools of money in private equity View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

rather than what they want? Is it reasonable for employers to be allowed a tax benefit for paying for health insurance benefits, but not their employees, when the insurance is primarily funded through reductions in employee income? Must... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

out of the brinkmanship of the past weeks, but not after payments to the International Monetary Fund have been missed, and European funding has ended. These tactics have created high and unnecessary... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

Boston into lockdown, existing clients cancelled and new clients stopped calling; Sandra’s and Vida Verde’s work came to a standstill. Together, they decided to use some of the cooperative’s funds to compensate each of the workers for... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

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 Weinzierl... View Details