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  • February 1990 (Revised July 1990)
  • Case

Internal Revenue Service: Automated Collection System

By: Nitin Nohria
Describes how the IRS's collection operations changed from a largely manual system (COF) to an automated system (ACS). A central aspect of ACS was the electronic scheduling and maintaining of work. While with ACS the IRS accomplished significant improvements in the... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Revenue; Information Technology; Taxation; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Human Resources; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • February 2023
  • Case

Roblox: Virtual Commerce in the Metaverse

By: Ayelet Israeli and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2022, Roblox had 58.8 million daily active users, including over half of all children and teens under the age of 16 in the United States. Roblox, a free-to-use “co-experience platform”, allowed users to come together in immersive 3D experiences to socialize, work,... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Market Design; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Channels; Marketing Strategy; Business Strategy; Economics; Economy; Economic Systems; Advertising; Advertising Campaigns; Digital Platforms; Markets; Price; Innovation and Management; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Video Game Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; North America; South America; Asia; Europe
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Corporate Tax Cuts Increase Income Inequality

By: Suresh Nallareddy, Ethan Rouen and Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato
This paper studies the effects of corporate tax changes on income inequality. Using state corporate tax rate changes as a setting, we show that cutting state corporate tax rates leads to increases in income inequality. This result is robust to using regression and... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Taxation; Income; Equality and Inequality; United States
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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events

By: Jiao Luo, Stephan Meier and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
One of the benefits of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programs, it has been argued, is that they build up a reservoir of public good will, shielding companies in times of trouble. In this paper, we test the view that CSR provides protection from public ire by... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Crisis Management; Media; Newspapers; Business and Community Relations; Corporate Strategy
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  • 10 Apr 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Where Does it Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson & Peter Tufano; Financial Services
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Thinking Outside the Box (12): The Benefits of Increased Transparency in Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance for the 180 Million Insured

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
Economists have long noted that the tax exclusion of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) caused workers to purchase health plans that differ in price and other characteristics from those they would otherwise choose for themselves. We explore the short-term and long-term... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Income; Equality and Inequality; Taxation; Policy; United States
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  • September 2019
  • Case

Teaming Up to Win the Rail Deal at GE (A)

By: Amy Edmondson, Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani
In 2012, Nalin Jain, then head of GE aviation for South Asia, was given the added responsibility for GE’s transportation business in India, including bidding for a $2.5 billion contract to manufacture, service and maintain 1,000 diesel locomotives for state owned... View Details
Keywords: Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Groups and Teams; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Rail Industry; Transportation Industry; United States; India
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  • February 2016
  • Case

Banking and Politics in Antebellum New York

By: David Moss and Colin Donovan
After a long period of solid Democratic control, Whigs secured a majority of seats in the New York State Assembly in 1837, the same year that a major financial panic had crippled the banking system and shaken public confidence in the state's governance. The next year,... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Central Banking; Ethics; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; History; New York (state, US)
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  • 13 Sep 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

  • 13 Sep 2013
  • HBS Seminar

Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

reducing inequities in the future. “The IRS does a really good job of tracking everyone’s wages, but we need to be tracking these other dimensions as well,” Zhang says. “The more ways we have to do that, the more we can start thinking... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Giving - Alumni

can also transfer up to $52,000 from your IRA to HBS as an outright gift, for a total gift of $105,000, as allowed by IRS rules. Contact Anne McClintock , Senior Director of Development, Planned Giving, to learn more. Annual opportunity:... View Details
  • Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele By: George Serafeim In this paper, I examine the relation between Integrated Reporting (IR) and the composition of a firm's investor base. I hypothesize and find that firms that practice IR have... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2023
  • Research & Ideas

The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?

Players have long been able to buy virtual items with real money in video games, such as special weapons and features. But Nintendo raised the ire of parents and regulators in 2018 when it added so-called loot boxes—a virtual lottery for... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Video Game; Media & Broadcasting
  • Web

Ways to Give Today - Alumni

IRS rules. Contact Anne McClintock , Senior Director of Development, Planned Giving, to learn more. Annual opportunity: You can transfer up to $105,000 directly from your IRA to HBS. Your gift can be excluded from your federal taxable... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

IRS argues that the difference in stock price is actually income to the entrepreneur. # 9: Issuing founder shares without vesting. Simply put, vesting protects the members of the founding team who take the venture forward. If people... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

Private equity buyouts are a polarizing financial prospect. One need only look at the name of the recent bill that Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) introduced to regulate private equity in the United States—the “Stop Wall Street Looting Act”—to get a sense of the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • Fast Answer

Executive compensation

report reviews key employee compensation practices at charitable nonprofit organizations based on data derived from the GuideStar database of digitized Form IRS 990 and 990-EZ information. View Details
  • 24 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Yelp Factor: Are Consumer Reviews Good for Business?

In recent years, consumer review sites including Yelp, Citysearch, and TripAdvisor have become the first stop for recommendations on everything from dinner to dentists. Along the way, they've earned a loyal following from fans, but also the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
  • 09 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

of," says Weiss. A new Harvard Business School course inspires students to be entrepreneurial leaders in government. Pictured: Government Center in Boston. ©iStock.com/gregobagel Not that producing such results comed easy. As One Fund was being established, the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding