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- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
doesn't distinguish between different levels of income. Wealthy, middle class, or poor, you pay the same rate. Also, a flat tax system is often completely free of deductions, exemptions, and exceptions. These efforts aim View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
For some gig workers, losing the flexibility to set their own schedules is equivalent to taking a 17 percent pay cut, according to new research... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
For some gig workers, losing the flexibility to set their own schedules is equivalent to taking a 17 percent pay cut, according to new research... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
with $400 million in revenues and a market capitalization of around $8 billion. Being a closer involves more than a willingness to go the distance in negotiating deals. You also have View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- Profile
Dan Vallone
be prepared to defend it while remaining open to learning from other perspectives. There’s also a very big thing here, what I call an interaction with the entrepreneurial spirit. There are so many ideas... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone.... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
developing world. We then discuss how survey techniques can be improved to better measure willingness to pay for urban amenities. Finally, we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
commercials. From one vantage, the credit industry is to blame for our economic woes. The solutions have centered on tightening credit—loaning only to homebuyers who can make a 20 percent down payment,... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
sector groups as equals, to build a network of long-term, trust-based relationships to deliver on the mission. A key lesson from this case is that successful networks depend upon a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
company or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
items on my “wish list” for my summer internship was joining a board meeting. Thanks to video conferencing, and the Maverick and startup teams’ willingness to have additional... View Details
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
called Diamonds and Seven Stars. They have the highest lifetime value to the organization and, in addition, exhibit a much higher willingness than other guests to help Harrah's... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2008
- What Do You Think?
How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?
raised questions for us to think about. As Jill Malleck said, "Many (customers) do not want to be artificially attached to a company Organizations would do well View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
Is the economic downturn affecting the willingness and readiness of companies to look at the economic, social, and environmental impact of their business practices? Or is this a perfect time View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
actually increase job openings through better service, higher sales, and more profits. Or it's a management that is sufficiently desperate for good headlines about its hiring and employment practices that it is willing to raise View Details
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
also find that people's willingness to punish wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
cases, films are produced independently and distributed by studios under revenue sharing agreements, which give studios 30% to 40% of the revenue stream. Under either regime, the studio determines and pays... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
agreed. There's been an incredible diffusion of what some people are calling the stealth-wealth pay system.— Rakesh Khurana One of the key points to remember in fixing the system, according View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
more lucrative, but we find that the effect of performance-based pay rates on dishonesty depends on how readily people can compare their pay rate to that of others. In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne