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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
compliance function to being a profit center. The ratio of corporate taxes to GDP declined through the late 1990s even during an economic expansion. There has been a growing disconnect between the income reports to capital markets and tax...
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by Ann Cullen
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitability will come with a venture-fueled increase in scale can also lead to the all-too-familiar scenario in which a startup exhausts its capital without ever achieving sustainable growth. Emphasizing profitability and financial...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
everything telescoped down to the short-term earnings. So CEOs became obsessed with the short-term results? We shifted from looking at business fundamentals, like growth in earnings per share, revenue generation, gains in market share,...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
Administration (SBA) program for minority-owned firms. But even as she marketed her company to the U.S. Navy, the Department of Agriculture, and other government agencies, Lambert also sought commercial clients. Still, when Centennial One...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial Reporting and Control. Assistant Professor Thales Teixeira, a member...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
the funding cutoff threshold and find convincing evidence that DNATF's mediated funding model has a compelling effect on firm performance and overall innovative performance three to four years after receipt of funds. Selection of a firm to participate helps it to stay...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
revenue and physician compensation. Unfortunately, attempting to save time with an AI tool in taking visit notes may actually translate into increased patient loads. If volume-driven financial incentives remain unchanged, there may be...
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- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
by market forces. We recognize the advantage of using fair values in circumstances where these are based on observable prices in liquid secondary markets but caution against expanding fair values to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
Over time, however, Japan's economy strengthened. Instead of then opening the economy and unleashing competition in the marketplace, the Japanese government continued limiting and regulating competition in many industries. In Japan, there...
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by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 21 Jan 2016
- Blog Post
HBS and the Arts
opportunity to combine my interests in art and finance by working for an asset management firm where I helped to establish a group focused on financial services for the art community. We worked with museums, artist foundations, artists,...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working in an emerging View Details
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
else’s problem — until now. A phone call from the IT department reports that your company’s computer systems have been accessed by an intruder. Troves of business and financial data, your customers’ as well as your own, have been...
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- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
Business School professors Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while robust governments must play a role, leadership by business is essential. For enterprising companies—whether large multinationals, established regional players, or small...
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- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
and consumer lending. The researchers chose to study risk-management experts because their role has risen in importance with demands for improved corporate governance and the need for better forecasting and modeling. After the financial...
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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
years. "President Bush felt strongly about normalizing relations with China and opening that market to American business," says Franklin. "My mission to Beijing to reconvene the Joint Commission was a win-win situation. The sanction was...
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- 15 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Be Unapologetically Yourself: Interview with Singer-Songwriter and Banking Strategist Andrea Mendoza
consulting) but Mendoza has embraced the surprise factor and learned to be unapologetically herself. What that looks like is a financial services professional, a strategic leader, and a performer all wrapped into one multidimensional...
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Carlos Coto
always been a dream of mine to attend an Ivy League school. When I was applying for college, it wasn't financially possible. Now it was." Carlos came to HBS with his wife, Julia, whom he married in June 2008. They live off-campus in...
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- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
efficiency. If you're Ford or Toyota, for example, you have to compete in the world market to capture the minimum efficient scale." The second requirement, often in conflict with the first, is a sensitivity and responsiveness to...
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by Julia Hanna
- 31 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Building a DTC Brand Through COVID
blog series in which she details her trials and tribulations through starting a company. Today, she shares a special version for HBS. As my fellow HBS classmates flew off to their hometowns for their remote internships, I thought about their jobs and View Details
- September 2023
- Supplement
Design and Evaluation of Targeted Interventions
By: Eva Ascarza
Targeted interventions serve as a pivotal tool in business strategy, streamlining decisions for enhanced efficiency and effectiveness. This note delves into two central facets of such interventions: first, the design of potent decision guidelines, or targeting...
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