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- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54565 Governance Through Shame and Aspiration: Index Creation and Corporate Behavior By: Chattopadhyay, Akash, Matthew D. Shaffer, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—After decades of both deprioritizing shareholders' economic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
average return on investments the company enjoyed outside its North American Tire business.20 Even this low return was optimistic, moreover, since Firestone had actually lost money on its sales to automakers (even before deducting any... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
Business School, while Devin is professor emeritus from Swarthmore College. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Can you explain what accidental innovation is? What led to your interest in researching this concept? Robert Austin: Historical accounts of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
matter? A: Absolutely. It's a very interesting paradox. In a global economy where it's easy to move goods and information around the world, these things become givens available to any enterprise. As a result, they are no longer a source... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
viability of the mortgage interest deduction in the midst of calls to increase revenues and decrease loopholes? A: First, let us put the mortgage interest View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
FAQ
Investing in HBS What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do! The Personal Touch Donor Spotlight Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices Why is this a good time to establish a charitable lead trust? Record low rates used in determining the charitable gift tax View Details
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Revolutionizing digital medical records
electronically search past records, freeing her to talk in more detail with her patient. Bushkin’s business model for MedKaz aligns the financial interests of all parties. Patients save deductibles and... View Details
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
interest deduction is widely disliked by tax analysts, but it has survived as a policy. Does this suggest that the policy process is broken or that tax analysts are missing something? My intuition often... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
harmed by our own worst instincts." Dan Wallace proposed: "I like 'nudge' solutions, and one approach here might be to provide a 100 percent mortgage interest deduction for people who put 20... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
says Ferri. There is the question of how to best align the interests of management and shareholders to incentivize long-term performance. Then there's the larger debate over the government's role in issuing limits on the huge pay... View Details
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
those who claim them, while cuts to mortgage interest and state and local tax deductions can be seen as efforts to get the government out of the business of distorting prices. “Discussing values gives the... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
States and that might otherwise offset its U.S. tax liability—such as interest expenses and some HQ expense—are allocated abroad so that they cannot be used to lower the firm's U.S. taxes. Because foreign governments, unsurprisingly,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
commercialization of important new drugs to the detriment of consumers. Interestingly, though, at public hearings, the AstraZeneca chief executive championed the interests of patients in opposing the proposed merger. Consumers worldwide... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
that empirical research has used social enterprise largely as a context for theory development, rather than deductively testing, and thus building upon, existing theories. The latter pattern is due largely to the absence of two key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
co-pays and deductibles on essential medications for chronic conditions can reduce adherence to therapy, leading to expensive hospitalizations, complications, and the like. Here, so-called consumer-driven health plans not only failed to... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
matter? A: Absolutely. It's a very interesting paradox. In a global economy where it's easy to move goods and information around the world, these things become givens available to any enterprise. As a result, they are no longer a source... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
Kabbage and can be referred to as online balance sheet lenders. Their loans typically are short-term, less than nine months, and fund working capital and inventory purchases. Many of these loan products operate similarly to a merchant cash advance, with a fixed amount... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
tax (VAT). Corporations will face a considerably lower rate, will not be allowed to deduct interest payments, and will be allowed to expense investments. The easiest way to understand that is: Because all... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
As interest in the flat tax grows, the world seems transfixed on an unlikely country, Slovakia, whose 3-year-old tax reform program is paying early dividends. Essentially applying a uniform tax rate on citizens (and sometimes companies)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
Recovery Act of 1981, Congress increased (from 5% to 10%) the allowable corporate tax deduction for charitable contributions (Mills & Gardner, 1984). And even as a majority of states were adopting "other constituency... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh