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  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

KPMG for Mayor!

or nonprofit must demonstrate to its shareholders or donors that it can perform efficiently. To state the obvious, companies must make money. How could running a local government be a profitable enterprise? In a word: taxes. Voters in corrupt municipalities currently... View Details
Keywords: Eric Werker; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Federal Reserve's 2003 Survey of Small Business Finances indicated that the average PAYDEX score of those surveyed was 53.4. By contrast, the 2011 NFIB Annual Small Business Finance Survey indicated that the... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Fast Forward

Anthony Foxx discussing America’s infrastructure challenges, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter last month released MOVE: Putting America’s Infrastructure Back in the Lead to offer a road map for a more mobile future. Tax Code In an effort to... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

social services have to be provided, and those costs tend to offset any tax-base revenues gained from housing. By contrast, with light industry, towns get the tax base without having to add a lot of social services. So communities that... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

more stable career path. The firms themselves also grew stronger, and the French government eventually saved more in unemployment benefits than the program cost, according to the study, Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Business at the Summit

rationales to do so. Energy independence has been a national priority since 1974, but “we don’t have the fortitude to tax oil, or to tax BTUs,” he said to sustained applause. As a result, he continued, “We... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

opportunity. This is particularly interesting as prior research in the finance literature has shown that firms will overinvest in high quality projects when investors have imperfect information about the quality of the firm's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Roads to Recovery

Step Forward: Incremental Improvement In 2000, Amtrak and the Pennsylvania Department of Trans-portation resolved to make the Pittsburgh-Philadelphia train route "auto-competitive" by 2015. That goal is within reach, thanks to modest... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

opportunities and elicit strategic responses by focal firms. We develop theory and provide empirical evidence of how innovative activity changes in response to product recalls in the U.S. medical device industry. Focal firm recalls slow View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private companies don't have. As such, the team decided to use sales growth as a proxy for investment opportunity responsiveness, since a rise in sales should trigger a rise in investment by any given firm. Changes in state corporate tax... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 19 Apr 2018
  • Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

governments need most are internal sources of revenue that can then finance their public goods and services – which means a strong local private sector that creates jobs and generates tax revenue. This... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

14 for '14

and 13 drift leftward. We will see what works. A controlled experiment in governance." —Grover Norquist (MBA 1981), president, Americans for Tax Reform "TV networks and streaming providers will experiment more with 'weekly installments'... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

General Motors was moving toward its vision of zero emissions and zero accidents by investing in electrified, shared, and autonomous vehicles. And while Wells Fargo was creating fraudulent accounts, Bank of America Merrill Lynch became a leader in underwriting green... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models

pricing models? DN: It all boils down to customer insights—and then choosing your offline strategy to conform to what you’re learning from your consumers online. But I think the answer is that incremental adjustments to the in-store... View Details
  • 08 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

recent Harvard Business Review article, "How the Quest for Efficiency Corroded the Market," proposes a number of radical remedies including tax breaks for long-term investors, the establishment of an investor's union, and making... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

foreign capital may encourage entrepreneurship. We find that entrepreneurial activity is higher in industries that have a large share of foreign firms in vertically linked industries. Second, we find that entrepreneurial activity in industries that are more reliant on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the suspension of gold payments by the Bank of England. Prime minister William Pitt was forced to implement the issue of paper money when the Bank announced a gold shortage, due to loans it had made to finance the war with France. Rumors... View Details
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

un‐cited or self-cited, suggesting that incumbents are more likely to engage in incremental innovation compared to VC-backed startups. Third, we document a rising share of patenting by startups that coincided with the surge in venture... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

What Industrial Policy?

"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists... View Details
Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
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