Tax Accounting - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

big part of Ferguson's story is his amazingly high and consistent performance over time-26 years. What are some of the key characteristics he demonstrates that account for these strings of successes? A: I think his willingness to develop... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 Aug 2023
News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

One Man Crime Wave

The problem is to find the way to make it possible for them to receive what they have earned.” (1969) “Incidentally, an old Hahvahd business acquaintance of mine was bugging me for a long time about how I ought to forsake this primitive village insofar as View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

recent Harvard Business Review article, "How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market," proposes a number of radical remedies including tax breaks for long-term investors, the establishment of an investor's union, and making... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

01 Jun 2003
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Bottom-Line Discrepancies

particular, the changing nature of employee compensation. By taking these items into account, one could reconcile tax returns with accounting statements. In the last decade, however, a huge, unexplained... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

tax-deferred account gives an investor a potential subsidy from the government, in the form of a tax deferral, Bergstresser continues. "The magnitude of this subsidy depends on how heavily the assets in... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

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Retirement Plan or Life Insurance - Alumni

Giving Retirement Plan or Life Insurance Giving Retirement Plan or Life Insurance To name HBS as a beneficiary of your retirement plan or life insurance policy, contact the administrator of the plan or policy to request a Change of Beneficiary form. Retirement Plan... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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One-on-One with Grover Norquist

raising taxes. With the Pledge, we branded the Republican Party at the national level as the party that will not raise your taxes. What are your tax reform priorities for the second Bush administration? Year one, kill the “death” estate... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Sep 2006
News

Strange Bedfellows

firms are well-governed. The actors in various corporate scandals, including Enron, Tyco, and Parmalat, were expert in exploiting the dual-tax system to manufacture accounting earnings. Corporate tax... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

01 Apr 2000
News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

the effect we have on the people who pay the tax, as well as the tax they pay. Both are important. What are the dimensions of this turnaround challenge? Every system, top to bottom, has to be reengineered. Our most fundamental problem is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2009
News

Executive Pay: Onward & Upward

1984 To discourage “golden parachutes,” a controversial pay innovation at the time, Congress imposes a special tax on such payments valued at more than three times an executive’s average pay. Rather than curb golden parachutes, the View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Arthur E. Andersen

Andersen built a small auditing firm into one of the largest accounting consultancy operations in the world. Andersen capitalized on the passage of federal income tax laws in the early decades of the... View Details

Keywords: Services

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AI Club | MBA

AI Club All recognized student clubs are part of a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax exempt organization, called Student Clubs of HBS, Inc. Each student club at Harvard Business School (HBS) is open to all matriculated HBS students and their... View Details

26 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 26

elasticity is two, optimal rates fall to 0.6% on average and 1.6% on high earners. Nevertheless, in all cases that we consider, the welfare gains of using optimal capital taxes are small. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

mispricing in trade imports and exports; country-by-country accounting of sales, profits, and taxes paid by multinational corporations; confirmation of beneficial ownership (i.e., naming the real owners, not... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607010 Note on Health Savings Accounts, Flexible Spending Accounts, and Health Reimbursement Account Vendors Harvard Business School Note 307-034 Purchase this note:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Scott D. Cook

century. The success of Quicken was just the beginning. Cook and Intuit went on to launch a full suite of financial applications from on-line bill payment for individuals to inventory and account receivables management for small... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

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