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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
performance of both the on-site and offshore managers. This strategy (as opposed to ones based on things like low cost and innovation used by Cognizant's competitors) is intended to build deep and strong client relationships that will maximize Cognizant's "share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
efficiency. I'll first consider a range of examples, from slavery and indentured servitude (which once were not as repugnant as they now are) to lending money for interest (which used to be widely repugnant and is now not), and from bans... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
costs by adopting three other strategies, although each would probably trigger a political battle: Cities could change their healthcare policies for retired workers by increasing deductibles and co-payments. They could also cut back on... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
absolutely want jobs. But we want competitive jobs that can last in a demanding global economy. MP: The sectors where you can generate the most jobs quickly tend to be in things like healthcare and construction—inherently local activities. But any economy is an View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
think in any of these cases I launched a revolution, but I think I was helpful. But the pace was so slow, and people were saying that these high deductibles represented consumer-driven health care. It's ridiculous. Consumer markets have... View Details