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  • 30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

utility. The federal debt could be at $20 trillion, the top income tax rate at 45%, and the S&P 500 at 418. Ferguson, a professor at Harvard University and Harvard Business School, imagines that to be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we derive an analytical expression that reveals the forces determining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

  Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership affects corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

competitive is the U.S. economy according to the Project’s research? In surveys of HBS alumni, business leaders have identified a number of weaknesses in the U.S. business environment that are deteriorating, including the K-12 education system, the View Details
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • News

New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

corporate culture. Pro bono work At Intuit, we give free tax preparation software to any American with an adjusted gross income of $25,000 or less — about 45 percent of the population. The View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

Publication:Journal of Public Economics Abstract We examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

exogenous shocks to household income in rural India: the dramatic reduction in import tariffs in the early 1990s and rainfall variations. We find that trade shocks, previously shown to raise relative poverty, also increased the incidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

led cities to digitize more of their own information, putting everything from tax records and public health inspection scores online. “They take a dataset that used to be in an obscure database or on paper, and now it’s available for the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

  Working PapersInvestable Tax Credits: The Case of the Low Income Housing Tax Credit Authors:Mihir A. Desai, Dhammika Dharmapala, and Monica Singhal Abstract The Low View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those observed in policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsHome Depot... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

one mechanism for capturing the performance benefits of diversity in experience and provide insight into how the management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf   PublicationsInstitutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance
  • 30 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

receive, they are very focused on comparisons. Q: In the discussion of dysfunctional competition you talk about the harm of using tax dollars to build new sports facilities to retain professional sports teams. Doesn't this type of... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 25 Mar 2008
  • News

Whistling Past the Graveyard

power have been virtually stagnant for decades. Two incomes are required where one used to suffice. Jobs and entire industries have gone overseas. The trade deficit has grown enormously. Tax codes have... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

several important issues likely to be encountered in the analysis of deferred taxes (e.g., deferred tax assets vs. liabilities, balance sheet classification, permanent differences, statutory vs. effective... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 26, 2010

support for ultimate target agreements. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsebenius/articles_scans/10_NegCampaignsNN.pdf   Working PapersPayout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

The research, based in France, was prompted by an ongoing regulatory debate within the European Union. "In Europe, there has been intense discussion about taxing high incomes in general, and bankers in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

Wildebeest added: “There is a good case to be made that deficits from loose monetary policy are the actual cause of the ever-widening income disparity in the US and nearly every major economy.” (JohnfrmClevelnd reminded Wildebeest that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

hundreds of billions in additional taxes to pay for the health care of the sick. Health care expenditures roughly follow Pareto's Law: Twenty percent of users spend 80 percent of the money. If the healthy 80 percent do not buy health... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health