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- 01 Jun 2010
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How Green Was My (Silicon) Valley
Doerr’s VC firm, Kleiner Perkins, has invested have received government tax credits, contracts, and loan guarantees. But Doerr distinguishes himself from past practitioners of the energy influence game in Washington. “I have referred to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Letters to the Editor
Bloomfield Hills, MI A Taxing Question Regarding his My Two Cents column, “My Beautiful Capital Gain,” in the March issue, I’d ask this of Dal LaMagna (MBA 1970): The money you invested was already taxed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
not have microphones find both sides somewhat right. Much of my recent research on tax policy, where the same tradeoffs are at stake, has shown that most people are sympathetic to the logic behind progressive View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Prof’s Dream Comes True
Tufano Tax refunds can now be channeled into the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, a policy victory for HBS professor Peter Tufano (left), founder and president of the nonprofit Doorway to Dreams Fund (D2D)... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
Spanish-language versions and on mobile devices. In addition to working with Tufano (soon-to-be dean of the Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford) on policy change that allows tax filers to direct... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
signed on as chairman of former Lt. Gov. William Scranton’s campaign to win the Republican nomination for governor in this year’s race against incumbent Ed Rendell. Drawing on his business background, Meakem advocates policies that will... View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fixing What Ails the Drug Industry
with academia; and sharing pre-competitive research, Lechleiter said. He made a plea for federal and state policy support in the form of tax incentives and improvements to the U.S. education system to back... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
America the Unequal
reactions to policies that would seem to benefit them, like raising taxes on those who earn and own a lot more. Why would the poor oppose taxes on the wealthy? Because many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
experiment, the offer of bonds did not crowd out private-sector savings. Our success in offering bonds at tax time has led a coalition of grassroots organizations, companies, and policy analysts to urge the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Strange Bedfellows
goal. Profits reported to tax authorities and to capital markets were essentially the same. Over time, well-considered exceptions — expensing of investments, for example — were introduced to advance policy... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to capitalize on it. Julia Trotman Brady (MBA 1997) Partner, Valo Ventures This is the most consequential View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
as well as reduce the corporate tax rate, a longtime goal of congressional Republicans. The idea was the brainchild of Eacho and George Frampton, a lawyer who worked on environmental issues at Covington & Burling and former environmental... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6156.html. The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation The notion of levying higher taxes on tall people — an idea offered largely tongue in cheek — presents an ideal way to highlight the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
seen this scale of refugee crisis since the aftermath of World War II. Second, from the late 1990s, the EU has been putting in place common border policies and a common asylum system, but this new institutional infrastructure has not been... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
experience. Such experience has served him well as he has introduced numerous pieces of legislation that have, among other things, repealed inheritance taxes (the so-called death tax), banned taxes on... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
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US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’
for America and proposes federal policy priorities that can form the core of such a strategy. Further, it identifies corporate and personal tax reform as promising first steps in the strategy. However, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
crafting innovative ways to make that happen in the Bay Area, where median home prices sail north of $1 million. In Oakland, for example, the nonprofit used a little-known tool called the Chapter 8 Tax Sale to acquire 24 blighted,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint