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- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
was known as the “sick man” of Europe, with lumbering state-owned enterprises, high unemployment, and a crushing top marginal tax rate of 93 percent. In an ominous sign of the times, the day after Cohen launched what was to become known... View Details
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
Acceptance of Morally Arbitrary Luck and Widespread Support for Classical Benefit-Based Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew C. Abstract—Public moral reasoning is shown to differ in three specific ways from what is conventionally assumed in modern optimal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
soil that encourages entrepreneurial growth? Tax breaks? Research? Access? Protection? A: Policies that governments employ to encourage venture capital and entrepreneurial activity take two broad forms: those that ensure that the economic... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
how these Americans spend their income tax refunds, using transaction-level data from a stored-value card product. Card-holders may choose among several tax settlement and loan options, effectively receiving... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
a number of modifications to the current set of risk-based capital requirements, to the leverage ratio, and to the Federal Reserve’s stress-testing framework. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53243 forthcoming Governance Elite View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
were about 50 people, and we started to hold meetings with the mayor of Mito, who agreed to support the project through deregulation, by providing tax incentives, and by communicating with the city’s population so the project could move... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
an additional tax rate of around 11% on the longest lived capital. To pin down credit constraints as the underlying cause, we apply triple differences strategies using foreign ownership or pre-crisis debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
a tax of 4 percent to annual income above $1 million in order to raise approximately $1.9 billion in new revenue for public education funding. The foundation’s efforts do not stop with providing grant funding to support organizations and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Goldman Sachs International Vice Chairman Bob Hormats has noted, this is the first major conflict since the Revolutionary War that has not been accompanied by higher taxes and lower spending for nonessential domestic programs. The only... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
policy makers know that these legal codifications would have tremendous impacts on the ability of entrepreneurs to obtain ownership rights to the geothermal resources and found new ventures. Colorado, for example, has ambitious renewable portfolio standards and View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
partnering with corporations and entrepreneurs to unveil parking apps, bike-sharing programs, and Wi-Fi networks in greener, more vibrant, more connected cities. And we learn about much-needed efforts to reduce our dependence on the gasoline View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
shows you how to set yourself up for investment success by creating an optimal nest-egg withdrawal strategy to ensure you never run out of money; maximizing returns through tactics like reducing your tax... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
differences in the price of capital across countries. Our strategy is motivated by the fact that most countries import the bulk of machinery equipment (from a small number of industrialized countries). We find the price of imported... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Once the hub of American manufacturing, Detroit is in a long state of economic decline. The rubber finally hit the road last week, when the city filed for bankruptcy protection. The challenges ahead for those that call the Motor City home are daunting, from a... 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
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
political stability. Liberia's economic strategy sees higher-level growth over the next five years coming from investments in mining, agriculture, and oil. That optimism may be warranted, according to Werker's analysis. "If multiple... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
Scale Global This case tracks Jerome Chouchan’s strategies and execution for a successful turnaround of Godiva Japan’s operations, which were experiencing a decline in sales when he became the managing director of the company in 2010.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the tariff at the optimal level.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace