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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, Weinzierl coauthored the HBS working paper "The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution" [PDF]. The main framework economists use to think through tax policy supposes that when a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Recent reports that sales of new single-family homes rose in March are proof points that "the housing market recovery remains on track." We asked Nicolas P. Retsinas to reflect on the re-emergence of the housing industry, what... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating,” says Sawyer, an assistant professor in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit who previously held the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
price-fixing, and influence peddling. But bribery is corruption’s most recognizable face, with some $40 billion annually doled out to corrupt government officials, TI says. Half of the executives in a 2009 TI global survey said that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise
spending virtually all of undergrad involved in the public sector, I decided to try something totally different after my graduation in 2011. So, I moved to New York City and began working in Foreign Exchange Sales at Credit Suisse. The... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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3.0 Avoiding Startup Failure Entrepreneurial Management Lindsay Hyde Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 ^ back to top B Area Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits B2B Sales and Distribution Marketing Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q3 1.5 Behavioral Economics for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
red tape to approve drugs? What is the drug industry’s own view on why there is this constant inflation in the cost of prescription drugs? —Etienne Locoh-Donou (MBA 2002) HASSAN: Governments are not good at managing markets or driving... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students
dropped out of college and joined a New York securities firm. He saw his sales and commissions rise after he decided to be less than forthcoming about potential drawbacks to the investment ideas he was pitching to customers. Over time,... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
Steve Rattner, who chaired the government task force, found the initial assessments of their needs woefully understated and badly documented, reflecting decades of lost market share and destroyed shareholder value. The deal that was... View Details
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
million bribe to secure the $1.3 billion contract to construct the McGill University Health Centre in Montreal. The company billed the Quebec government for $191 million in cost overruns, for which it is unlikely to be reimbursed. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
Dafny, she expects the influence of assistance on drug sales to wane due to the reduction in out-of-pocket spending. Patients might be likelier to buy a more expensive drug even without assistance if they have to pay less, she explains.... View Details
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
you—look next for a source of competitive advantage? Second, for entrepreneurs and investors, the article has governance implications. Telling the board that the sales pipeline grew by $X should not qualify... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to find that managers are not even... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
the cracks. But for the most part, the money is spent in a legitimate way. We are always trying to do a better job, but we still have the best, most effective, most efficient government in the world. What are your proudest... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
analysts, he or she must believe that an analyst's report is something more than a disguised sales pitch. So banks have ordinarily insisted that analysis and sales were separated by a so-called Chinese wall... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
and analysis," says Quelch. A Smoking Market Uncertainty over health data hasn't hurt the product's popularity. In 2013, electronic cigarettes tripled in sales in the US to approximately $3 billion. (The overall tobacco retail market... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
featuring Donald S. Beyer, U.S. Congressman from Virginia and Co-Chair of the New Democrat Coalition Climate Change Task Force; Anne Kelly, (Harvard Kennedy School, 1996) VP of Government Relations, Ceres; Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006),... View Details