Taxes - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

Wired for Innovation "The progress we’ve seen in Texas itself is a combination of good resources, good infrastructure, and friendly permitting policies. And it’s supported by national tax policy that incentivizes wind." Mark Tercek MBA... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

economic stagnation of the middle class? The labor movement supports the agenda that Barack Obama has skillfully outlined for revitalizing our economy and rebuilding the middle class. First, we have to have a real economic recovery package that is focused not on View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

01 Mar 2008
News

An American Odyssey

so much as the symptoms of 400 years of the wrongful diversion of income and wealth.” This unjust enrichment, he asserts, can be recaptured, recovered, and reclaimed. America “Redistributive justice is something we do all the time simply by tweaking the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

Emissions Regulation Authors:David Drake, Paul R. Kleindorfer, and Luk N. Van Wassenhove Abstract We study the impact of emissions tax and emissions cap-and-trade regulation on a firm's long-run technology choice and capacity decisions.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

soil that encourages entrepreneurial growth? Tax breaks? Research? Access? Protection? A: Policies that governments employ to encourage venture capital and entrepreneurial activity take two broad forms: those that ensure that the economic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Feb 2000
News

William Jones: Builder with a Mission

properties are being rehabilitated both privately and through nonprofit programs, and residents volunteer their labor to help with face-lifts. A commercial developer has recently proposed an office complex and a plan for 135 affordable town homes backed by View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Sep 2014
News

Case Study: Declawing the Competition

and/or alliance with a pet food supplier—get your kit endorsed. 4) Consider the new B Corporation status, which allows additional tax benefits for socially responsible corporations. — Glenn E. Perkins (GMP 11, 2011) Take a page from the... View Details

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

of information among doctors, hospitals, patients, and providers; standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

despite high marginal tax rates; and, why other firms maintain high leverage despite little tax benefit. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49212 Firm Selection and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

tax and regulatory climate, outstanding talent, workforce development.” Over the course of nearly eight years, the Louisiana Economic Development agency’s efforts attracted companies that included IBM, CGI, CSC (now General Dynamics IT),... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

benefit-based taxation, in which an individual's benefit from public goods is tied to his or her income-earning ability, can be incorporated into modern optimal tax theory. If Lindahl's methods are applied to that view of benefits,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

told General Medina. He was a CFA with experience in international business, and now he had spent four years in one of the most taxing leadership positions imaginable. But he needed General Medina to support his petition to end active... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Profile

Jeremy Andrus

and so on—that’s one challenge. Then the product has to be shipped and distributed to 30,000 or 40,000 locations across the globe, where government rules, regulations, labor laws, cultures, and tax structures vary significantly. The... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

don't pay off for the vast majority of people. "As a result, voters favor high taxes," Di Tella says. "It's like a tax in a casino—people believe that it should be high because so little effort has been expended in winning... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Grolsch Brewing Company: Drink Sustainably

companies we visited were supportive of market interventions by government policy and regulation to encourage sustainable investments. For example, Grolsch shared that taxes on landfilling (which is now prohibited in the Netherlands) and... View Details

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

Obama's stimulus package, in particular, provided significant incentives and subsidies for the development of renewables. There is, for example, an investment tax credit of 30 percent—even payable as a cash subsidy—for new developments in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

02 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays uncertainty, and contingent-debt service. Our framework also recognizes that contingent debt can... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

Increasingly, we are also seeing the expansion of the purview of business to issues that typically fall to government and policymakers as a way to improve outcomes for society and the planet overall. For example, let us suppose that a country is considering a carbon... View Details

12 Jul 2011
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First Look: July 12

Business School Case 111-082 The case describes the challenges that UBS faced as a result of the U.S. Department of Justice investigation for tax fraud, which claimed that UBS had helped some 52,000 U.S. residents hide billions of dollars... View Details