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- 18 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 18, 2009
who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to create an IP address "market" while avoiding major negative externalities—mitigating the worst effects of v4... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017
these issues. Firms devote more external capital to finance their share repurchases than to avoid regular dividend cuts. Debt is the main source of capital used to externally finance payouts, particularly when credit market conditions are... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
choice, and non-traditional methods for estimating models. An agenda for important future work in these areas is also proposed. Corporate Tax Avoidance and Firm Value Authors:Mihir Desai and D. Dharmapala... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
are doing creative things or learned from mistakes and are willing to share tips and tricks to avoid pitfalls as you scale. While it may make you feel vulnerable, asking your investors for guidance around your own personal development... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
http://hbr.org/search/713085-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 713-078 America's Budget Impasse In the spring of 2013, Barak Obama faced a difficult budgetary challenge-reducing fiscal deficits over 10 years without dampening the weak economic recovery but soon... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
less and less innovative." “Success is a powerful thing It tends to make companies stupid" Scott Cook, Intuit Avoiding innovation stagnation is the reason that Cook believes established companies need a lean start-up model—maybe... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018
Gone Too Far When Ethan Bernstein used wearable technology to track workers around their open office, he discovered many were trying to avoid collaboration rather than engage in it. How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit Reshmaan... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
Working PapersThe Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Corporate Tax Avoidance Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This study investigates how private equity ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
about fostering inclusion; they range from a rules-based approach to those emphasizing selection, training, and other ways of managing to meet the objective. There should be an effort to avoid the rules-based approach. These were some of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
garment factory owners engaged in cutthroat price competition to secure orders from Western manufacturer and retailer brands. These brands conveniently sourced their requirements at arm’s length through third-party intermediaries to avoid... View Details
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
of information among doctors, hospitals, patients, and providers; standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
and relatives in Greece lead better lives than they can afford. Their wages are high, their benefits even higher, and their taxes are low (because, he claims, they avoid paying them). Banks in other... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
smaller." John Homan suggested, "... that the Federal Government give a 10 percent tax credit to the purchaser of a house and the purchaser pay it back ... over 20 years in equal installments with no interest." Education in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
failures to protect citizens. The paper argues that avoiding complicity should be the appropriate focus of managerial responsibility. February 2015 Management Science When to Sell Your Idea: Theory and Evidence from the Movie Industry By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform
are entire industries that have been created to help avoid paying taxes and find creative ways around compensating people, he said. "There's a lot of aiding and abetting that goes on in this kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
cost of moving to the suburbs. I find that black in-migration imposed a strong, negative fiscal externality on receiving places by lowering property values and, mechanically, reducing tax revenues. Unable or unwilling to raise View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
topics, even controlling for their country of origin and gender. For example, CEOs who tend to be more expressive devote more attention to topics related to society at large and avoid topics related to the government. By contrast, dour... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
painful, difficult journey. It's trial and error, endless effort, and slowly acquired personal insight. Many managers never complete the journey. At best, they just learn to get by. At worst, they become terrible bosses. This new book explains how to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
past five decades, accountants have changed from watchdogs to advocates and salespersons. Auditing has become one of a number of services, including consulting and tax advice, in which accountants "sell" creative View Details