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Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion among "tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other... View Details
Keywords: International Taxation; Dynamic Efficiency; Deferral; Policy; Taxation; Performance Efficiency; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Business Earnings; Equity; Financing and Loans; Cash Flow; Capital; United States
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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Towards an Understanding of the Role of Standard Setters in Standard Setting

Keywords: by Abigail Allen & Karthik Ramanna; Accounting
  • March 2016
  • Article

Trade Credit and Taxes

By: Mihir Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
This paper analyzes the extent to which firms use trade credit to reallocate capital in response to tax incentives. Tax-induced differences in pretax returns encourage the use of trade credit to reallocate capital from firms facing low tax rates to those facing high... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Trade; Credit; Capital
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  • 18 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Organizational Scope and Governance in Strengthening Private Monitoring

Keywords: by Lamar Pierce & Michael W. Toffel
  • 24 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

“An Unfair Advantage”? Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

Keywords: by Lily Fang, Victoria Ivashina & Josh Lerner; Banking
  • July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details
Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America
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Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Professor Michael Porter retired from the Harvard Business School faculty on November 30, 2023. Harvard Business Review: Smart, Connected Products Health Care: Value-Based Health Care U.S. COMPETITIVENESS: Competition in the View Details
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

global businesses where if we aren’t talking about the politics in those countries, how do we have a proper supply chain? Do we just guess?” Wing asks. While personal voting records and political party View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Why Do So Many Chinese Students Come to the United States?

By: William C. Kirby
Many books offer information about China, but few make sense of what is truly at stake. The questions addressed in this unique volume provide a window onto the challenges China faces today and the uncertainties its meteoric ascent on the global horizon has provoked.... View Details
Keywords: Asia; China; Emerging Country; Students; Education; Higher Education; Globalization; International Relations; History; Society; Education Industry; Asia; China; United States
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About - Business & Environment

on business and environment topics Educate students to transform organizations to become environmentally sustainable Disseminate insights from research and foster alumni engagement on critical environmental topics BEI brings together more than 40 View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Faculty - Faculty & Research

Assistant Professor of Business Administration Jerry R. Green David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy John Leverett Professor in the University Brian J. Hall Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration Leslie K. John James... View Details
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC About Michael Porter About Michael Porter A Letter from Michael Porter Biography The Essential Porter Honors & Awards Affiliated Organizations & Institutions VBHCD Initiative Biography Biography Career Timeline Biography Michael... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

interned in the White House Office of Political Affairs. Bergeron is the past chairman of the board of trustees of The Summit Country Day School. Ellen and Michael Berk (MBA 1996) Fellowship The Ellen and Michael Berk Fellowship was... View Details
  • 13 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets

that negativity toward one’s out-group is stronger than positivity toward one’s in-group.” Using hate to show belonging Previous studies suggest that it's easier to discern someone’s political affiliation by... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Media & Broadcasting
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

American companies, found itself operating after 1933 in a country whose government violently suppressed political dissent and engaged in intimidation and discrimination against Jews. Explores the tensions between IBM's German View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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MOC Network reaches 20 year milestone - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

specific location. Universities and individual research institutes in the MOC Affiliate Network serve as platforms for support in collaborative efforts for competitiveness upgrading. This report captures the history of the network and... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

infrastructure staff, as well as advertisers, were not. Musk’s stated desire to make Twitter a haven for any speech “within the bounds of the law” has led to a sharp uptick in posts advocating white nationalism, anti-Semitism, homophobia, and right-wing threats of... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • Profile

Christina Byrd

hundred students per class to its polar opposite: UC Berkeley. I was expected to go to a religiously affiliated school or to stay in the South – I left both.” Christina became a political economy major. “I... View Details