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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

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: Cash Flow; Investment Return; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Policy; Taxation; United States
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  • March 2012 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Against the Grain: Jim Teague in Tanzania (A)

By: Karthik Ramanna
Loan officer Jim Teague discovers his agro-processor client has a serious health-code violation just days before a disbursement is due. Proceeding with the loan could jeopardize the health of thousands of customers and put his employer at serious risk. But withholding... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Financing and Loans; Health; Risk Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Tanzania
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  • June 2005 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Yamanote Kaikan

By: Robin Greenwood, Arthur I Segel and Joshua Katzin
In 2001, James O'Connell, president of Holyoke Japan, an affiliate of Larson Capital, a distress debt private equity firm, wants to bid on a 90 billion yen loan currently in default by the borrower, Sanjo Enterprises, for a popular wedding and banquet facility with an... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Private Equity; Price; Bids and Bidding; Competition; Japan
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  • 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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    Vincent Pons

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    Vincent Pons is... View Details

    • 13 Oct 2015
    • Blog Post

    LGBTSA Spotlight: Alterrell Mills

    the broader community. For me, being involved with the LGBTSA is an opportunity to demonstrate both inside and outside of the community that people do not need to choose one community affiliation (identity) over another, but can be their... View Details

      Leila Doumi

      Leila Doumi is a PhD Candidate in the Strategy Unit and an affiliate of the Digital Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. She conducts research on technology adoption, corporate strategy, and the future of work with a focus... View Details

      • 11 Oct 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

      Call it corporate alchemy. New research finds that multinational companies can spin gender bias into gold by recruiting and hiring well-educated female managers in countries that traditionally discriminate against women. Employing women who are excluded by their own... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • May 1, 2020
      • Article

      COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

      By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Danielle Kost
      The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.
      We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability
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        Alison Wood Brooks

        Alison Wood Brooks is the O'Brien Associate Professor of Business Administration and Hellman Faculty Fellow in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches a cutting-edge course in the MBA elective curriculum called "How... View Details

          Samuel G. Hanson

          Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details

          Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry
          • Research Summary

          Do Vertical Mergers facilitate Collusion?

          Joint work with Volker Nocke, University of Pennsylvania In this paper we investigate the impact of vertical mergers on upstream firms' ability to sustain collusion. We show in a number of models that the net effect of vertical integration is to facilitate... View Details

            Marco E. Tabellini

            Marco Tabellini is an assistant professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy unit and is affiliated with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), the Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), the Centre for Research... View Details

              Derrick Bransby

              Derrick studies how teams accomplish complex work in novel contexts. His dissertation advances the idea of disciplined flexibility: a strategy teams use to navigate uncertainty... View Details
              • September 1995 (Revised October 1996)
              • Case

              Sunbeam Television (A)

              By: V. Kasturi Rangan and E. Scott Lathrop
              Sunbeam Television, owner of a television station in Miami (a Fox affiliate), buys Channel 7 (a CBS affiliate) in Boston. They bring to the Boston station the concepts and ideas of their Miami news product--that is, a crisp, content-based design rather than one... View Details
              Keywords: Acquisition; Change; Decisions; Design; Television Entertainment; Product; Motivation and Incentives; Value; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Boston
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              • 16 Nov 2020
              • News

              Harvard Business School Will Move to Remote Instruction and Restrict On-Campus Activities as Virus Cases Surge

              • 13 Jul 2022
              • News

              So What Happened to Crypto?

                Iavor I. Bojinov

                Iavor Bojinov is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration and the Richard Hodgson Fellow at Harvard Business School. He is the co-PI of the AI and Data Science Operations Lab and a faculty affiliate in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University and... View Details

                • 24 Mar 2008
                • Working Paper Summaries

                Optimal Deterrence when Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid In Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud

                Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Video Game; Web Services
                • 2013
                • Teaching Note

                Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

                By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
                Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
                Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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