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- 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 2014
- News
School Ties
education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
conjunction with HBS faculty colleagues and scholars from other leading institutions. Business leaders, HBS alumni worldwide, and policy makers are also contributing to the Project's findings, with initial research appearing in a special... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
2nd HBS Survey on US Competitiveness
A second survey of nearly 7,000 HBS alumni and just over 1,000 members of the general public found ongoing concern regarding America's ability to compete in the global economy but wide agreement between liberals and conservatives on the direction national View Details
- 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
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
or cease to exist,” she says. Some people aren’t even aware that they’ve been auto-enrolled, according to the Association of British Insurers and the Pensions Policy Institute, which recently found 1.6 million unclaimed pension funds,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
policymakers in a way that leads to improved choices and decisions. The more analysis informs this debate, the better, so that we can more easily understand and model the outcome. When we make changes to immigration policy, what is the impact on GDP growth and View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
difficulty keeping the heat or the lights on. Together with our headquarters team and researchers, I work with policy makers and policy groups to help develop and support better View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
private corporations rely on public programs and policy for financial assistance during times of crisis. In contrast, ‘good’ corporate strategy often emphasizes minimizing tax liability. How might our... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
spending too much; and the Reagan and Bush administrations’ tax policies and deregulatory environment for encouraging risk-taking. Conard makes the contrarian case for how the economy really works, what went... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
it could create—again, we haven’t tested this—distrust among employees. But, in general, having employees with the right ethics and values, who come forward when they see something, can actually help companies overall. How could these statutes and View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
and, as he puts it, "get reality on the table." Since 1996, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and, currently, as a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., Baker has conducted research on and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
policy has largely played out is that companies have fought for something very narrow that they want out of government—one particular industry gets one specific tax consideration, for example. It’s... View Details
- 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
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
policy and urban redevelopment issues. When his boss moved on to another post, Jones filled the vacancy on the council and was subsequently elected to a four-year term. As a councilor, Jones enjoyed "getting streets paved, libraries... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
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
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
developed an important insight into why the owners of small businesses typically wait until the last minute to update their books and file tax forms. Most people would say they are just lazy or undisciplined. But Cook observed what was... View Details