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- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
researchers and practitioners alike: What is the proper balance to be struck by a business between encouraging autonomy so that employees can ignore red tape to serve the customer quickly and efficiently, and mitigating the risk that they'll make bad decisions? A new... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
a 401(k), a 403(b), or an IRA and the returns cumulate tax-free. But this tax break, in theory, has an ambiguous effect on saving. For example, a person who is already saving a lot may reduce their saving if... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
Moreover, we find that contingent free shipping shifts demand to more popular products and that the effects of category-level price changes on profits depends on the active shipping policy. Our findings demonstrate the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
Some also claim that enforcing the individual mandate is not feasible, but Switzerland's 97 percent enrollment rate for its version of the individual mandate indicates that it's possible. The Swiss achieve this compliance through... View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
of physician-MBAs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51465 August 2016 PLoS ONE The Effect of Background Music in Shark Documentaries on Viewers' Perceptions of Sharks By: Nosal, Andy, Elizabeth A. Keenan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
explain eight lessons from optimal tax theory and compare them to the last few decades of OECD tax policy. As recommended by theory, top marginal income tax View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
an additional tax rate of around 11% on the longest lived capital. To pin down credit constraints as the underlying cause, we apply triple differences strategies using foreign ownership or pre-crisis debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
short rates works through the expectations hypothesis, while forward guidance on QE works through expected future bond risk premia. If a QE operation is expected to be undone in the near term, then its announcement will have a hump-shaped... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
the tax holiday. The results indicate that U.S. multinationals were not financially constrained and were reasonably well governed. The fungibility of money appears to have undermined the effectiveness of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
bet on industry’s ability to close the human development gap through investment tax credits. As he put it, “What if companies were given a tax credit for each non-executive level full-time employee based in... View Details
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those observed in policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsHome Depot... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
observers rate those who reveal even questionable behavior more positively (experiments 4A and 4B). The negative impact of hiding holds whether opting not to disclose unflattering (drug use, poor grades, and sexually transmitted diseases)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
90th percentile of corruption are much lower across the board. We make progress towards causality through Granger-style tests and by considering periphery counties where effective tax policy is largely... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
of these firms face various issues—including management of exchange rate risk, how to structure their internal capital markets, how to do capital budgeting worldwide, and how to respond to varying regulatory and View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
several important issues likely to be encountered in the analysis of deferred taxes (e.g., deferred tax assets vs. liabilities, balance sheet classification, permanent differences, statutory vs. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
experiment isn't practical or ethical. (In this case households that qualified for SCHIP were the treatment group.) The data showed that SCHIP had a significant positive effect on entrepreneurship. The program increased the... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
went even further, commenting that "When you try to institutionalize pay-for-performance you actually ruin the concept." (In fact, there is some evidence that performance pay that is not institutionalized may often be more View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
that managers deliver ROI from their marketing investments; therefore, quantifying the effects of marketing decisions is imperative. At the same time, customer relationship management (CRM) software and emerging Web 2.0 applications are... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
welfare reform, as well as the effective tax rates of both investors and workers. Another important theme relates to Slovakia's desire to join the EU and adopt the Euro.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Studies also show millennials are financially responsible, with two-thirds of them putting more than 5 percent of their paychecks into savings, the highest rate of savings of any current generation. “Having gone through the Great... View Details