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  • Mar 2015
  • U.S. Senate Committee on Finance

Tax Complexity and the Importance of Simplification

By: Mihir A. Desai
Complexity in the tax code has negative redistributive and growth consequences that have only accelerated over time as more and more policy goals are now implemented through the tax system.
  • Jul 2014
  • U.S. Senate Committee on Finance

International Tax Reform

By: Mihir A. Desai
Recent merger transactions highlight long-simmering problems in the U.S. corporate tax, particularly with respect to its international provisions.
  • Jul 2012
  • Harvard Business Review

A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses

By: Mihir A. Desai
The U.S. corporate tax code is broken. High rates and perverse incentives drive capital away from the corporate sector and toward other uses and countries. Professor Mihir A. Desai believes a handful of changes could fix all that.
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  • Mar 2012
  • Harvard Business Review

Special Report: Restoring U.S. Competitiveness

Some of the world’s most original thinkers explain the competitiveness challenge America faces and point the way forward.
  • Mar 2012
  • Harvard Business Review

How to Make Finance Work

By: Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein
Professors Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein make recommendations in three important domains in which the U.S. financial system has underperformed: financial stability, housing finance, and investment costs.
  • Mar 2012
  • Harvard Business Review

Macroeconomic Policy and U.S. Competitiveness

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Matthew C. Weinzierl
Across the political spectrum, there is consensus that the United States faces challenges to its competitiveness. Current U.S. fiscal policy is, unfortunately, part of the problem rather than the solution, according to Professors Richard H.K. Vietor and Matthew C. Weinzierl.
  • Mar 2012
  • Harvard Business Review

The Incentive Bubble

By: Mihir A. Desai
The last three decades have seen American capitalism transformed by a simple idea—that the evaluation and compensation of managers and investors should be outsourced to financial markets, says Professor Mihir A. Desai.
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  • Feb 2012
  • Case

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul: Building on a Diversified Base (Abridged)

By: William W. George
Starting in 2003, the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan region lagged the rest of the U.S. in job creation. Alarmed business and civic leaders coalesced around the Itasca Project, which set in motion a series of actions by groups of CEOs and politicians aimed at reversing these trends by creating jobs in all sectors of the economy.
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  • Nov 2011
  • Case

The Big 3 Roar Back

By: William W. George
By 2008, Detroit's "Big 3"—Ford Motor Company, General Motors, and Chrysler—were teetering, and two required federal government assistance to stay afloat. Within three years, remarkably, the Big 3 had turned around by improving competitiveness in quality, design, and cost, as well as through strong, decisive leadership on multiple fronts and improved union relations.
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  • Nov 2011
  • Case

Envision Charlotte: Building an Energy Cluster (Abridged)

By: William W. George
In 2006, Jim Rogers, CEO of Duke Energy, began to lay the groundwork to establish Charlotte as the "new energy hub of America." The Envision Charlotte initiative builds on the Charlotte region's economic development "energy capital USA" initiative.

Research Tracks

 
What Is U.S. Competitiveness?
The United States is competitive to the extent that firms operating in the U.S. can compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.
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Research Tracks

 
What Is U.S. Competitiveness?
The United States is competitive to the extent that firms operating in the U.S. can compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for Americans.
Find Out More