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- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin Jacob Abstract When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). High taxes will favor firms that can finance internally. If there are no perfect View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
substitution has a substantial effect on optimal capital taxation. If the intertemporal elasticity is one-third, optimal capital income tax rates rise to 15% on average and 23% on high earners; if the intertemporal elasticity is two,...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
faculty members see an opportunity for HBS to expand the Immersion programs. There’s no substitute for the experience of actually being on the ground in another country, notes Datar. The question remains whether such experiences should be...
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- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
Is mixed bundling more effective than pure bundling or pure components? Does correlation in consumer valuations make bundling more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 22
breakthrough the company had hoped for, much remained uncertain—most obvious, would consumers accept Reb A as a substitute for sugar or the myriad sweeteners already established in the marketplace? The potential seemed high given...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
educational experiences that complement classroom work. Last January, four programs took students abroad to China and Vietnam, India, the Middle East, and Europe. Light and many faculty members see an opportunity for HBS to expand the Immersion programs. There's no...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
trust is much easier to do in person. Zoom is not an effective substitute for face-to-face relationship building.” —Steve Latham (MBA 1997) “What I learned is that, prior to COVID-19, we were focused on things that did not add value. The...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
been reskilling them through various coursework, mostly online coursework. And then, the most important thing that we’re also pushing—and I think there’s no substitute for this—is actual experimentation, and the experimentation piece, in...
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- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
What personal attributes were crucial among the leaders you have studied? A: There is no substitute for leaders personally meeting employees. Leif Johansson, CEO of the Volvo Group in Sweden, did a lot of that when he took charge. He made...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
should not view it as a substitute for broad public-policy measures that reach all citizens. PEAK PERFORMANCE: HBS professor Warren McFarlan worked tirelessly behind the scenes to plan and organize the summit’s timely and memorable...
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- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
(retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g.,...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
rest in his book-lined office, the shovel he used to break ground on the school’s dormitory renovation project leaning against the wall. One of the lessons that Marietta learned is that there is no substitute for building on local...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
favorable expectations when first- and third-party content are substitute (complements). These results hold with both simultaneous and sequential entry of the two sides. With two competing platforms-incumbent facing favorable expectations...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout taxes,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
question that has received less attention, however, is whether focus at the divisional level is complementary with, or a substitute for, focus at the firm level. We explore this question by considering the performance of investigative...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Art Nature Business
Mountains. Here Ford reworks Durand’s iconic painting, substituting Cole and Bryant with the writers Herman Melville and Nathaniel Hawthorne in the foreground, and inserting a McDonald’s restaurant in the background as his comment on the...
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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
reduce the total dollar volume of contracts with accused firms; however, they substitute approximately 14% of the harder-to-monitor cost-plus contracts for fixed-price contracts. This effect is concentrated in the procurement of services...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
Points out the roles of bilateral investment treaties and regional economic agreements in making arbitration accessible to an increasing number of foreign investors. Views the various arrangements as substitutes for a global agreement on...
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Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
intertemporal elasticity, optimal capital income tax rates are 2% on average and 4.5% on high earners. We find that the intertemporal elasticity of substitution has a substantial effect on optimal capital taxation. If the intertemporal...
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Sean Silverthorne