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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
has been a major obstacle to moving the country forward on nearly every front that makes a healthy business environment, from tax reform and restoring economic growth to improving public education and health care and rebuilding the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Management Review 53, no. 4 (2012) Abstract An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/the-magazine/2012-summer/53416/building-effective-business-relationships-in-china/ A Better Way to Tax U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
http://hbr.org/2012/03/how-to-make-finance-work/ar/1 Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990 Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski Publication:Enterprise and Society 13, no. 1 (March 2012) Abstract This article is concerned with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
licenses grew in Colorado from 37 to 200, along with creation of 500 medical marijuana dispensaries. Most recreational buyers seemed to be casual users. In fact, for those six months, recreational marijuana accounted for 80 percent of the $25 million in View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top marginal View Details
- 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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
systematizing a business so it will run without the owner’s hands-on attention; and dealing with government, especially over tax and regulation matters. These concerns, Bowen told his audience, closely conformed with those expressed by... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
1.5% because it deters entry of new high-type firms. On the contrary, substantial improvements (of the order of 5% improvement in welfare) are possible if the continued operation of incumbents is taxed while at the same time R&D by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
African continent and import taxes are exorbitant, prices can run sky-high—to the tune of US$80,000 for a 2011 Toyota Land Cruiser, for instance. To address these problems, Nairobi-based startup Mobius Motors has reimagined an affordable... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
As health insurance reform is hotly debated in Washington, DC, what strategies should be central for the benefit of patients' health? HBS faculty with expertise in business administration, economic development, and operations View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
investments that keep them going.” In fact, companies cut their longer-term investments by 10 to 40 percent—an average of 17 percentage points more than shorter-term investments. In financial terms, that carries the same financial impact as if credit constraints caused... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
private corporations rely on public programs and policy for financial assistance during times of crisis. In contrast, ‘good’ corporate strategy often emphasizes minimizing tax liability. How might our... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
and cutting wages, this will reduce the purchasing power of Americans, shrink the tax base, and eventually undermine the business environment in America. Conversely, if workers get higher pay while American-based companies are not able to... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Lady Gaga, and LeBron James? Which strategies give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals? In this book, drawing on my case studies and other research on the worlds of media and sports, I... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
resulting currency position tends to rise in value when equity markets fall. This strategy works well for investment horizons of one month to one year. In the past 15 years the risk-minimizing demand for the dollar appears to have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
government can work together to create jobs.” "We've made a lot of progress on the macroeconomic front: deficit reduction, balancing the budget, what the Fed is doing, and tax policy reform," says Mills. "But that doesn't... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the Constitution of 1891, which gave states the sole right to tax exports. We end by running instrumental variable estimates using... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
differences in their forecasts of future events (such as the profitability of a business being sold), attitudes toward risk and time, tax and regulatory status, market and technological knowledge and access, and so on. The third dimension... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
first commercial strip development in 1983. Since then we have pursued a strategy that has overcome historical biases and roadblocks to urban reinvestment. How did you contribute to this strategy? I led a comprehensive study that helped... View Details
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://ssrn.com/abstract=1934217 Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions in Grand Strategy By: Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This paper proposes an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne