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  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

internalizing what's being taught. What do we need to know in a corporate setting about how we evaluate the people we're trying to teach, and evaluate the teacher as well? DL: I think it's very difficult to evaluate for some View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate

By: Gary P. Pisano
Science has long been connected to innovation and to business. As early as the late 19th century, chemical companies, realizing the commercial potential of science, created the first industrial research laboratories. During much of the 20th century, large-scale... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; Innovation and Management; Risk Management; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Commercialization
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  • 08 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

ears around the world is critical” Nearly 20 years later and in its sixth edition, Bartlett's case-filled textbook (which he describes as a "continuing passion") offers the opportunity to reexamine the ever-changing nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna

    Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

    Business transactions take widely varying forms―from multibillion-dollar corporate mergers to patent licenses to the signing of an all-star quarterback. Yet every deal shares the same goal, or at least should: to maximize the joint value created and to distribute... View Details
    • July 1982 (Revised August 2006)
    • Background Note

    Tax Factors in Business Combinations

    By: Henry B. Reiling
    Discusses the theory and rules governing the taxation of business combinations (mergers and acquisitions). Related information from state corporate law, federal securities law, accounting, and finance is also provided. A rewritten version of an earlier note. View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Law
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    • January 2013
    • Article

    Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

    When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor... View Details
    Keywords: Taxation; Investment; Equity; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation
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    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Payout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment

    When corporate payout is taxed, internal equity (retained earnings) is cheaper than external equity (share issues). If there are no perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor... View Details
    Keywords: Business Earnings; Equity; Financing and Loans; Investment; Taxation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 04 Jan 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

    answered include: How do I get past a feeling of being stuck in life or work? Can I resist the temptations of success? Am I working too hard? Is there room for spirituality at the office? 10 Reasons to... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • 07 Apr 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

    taxation or, said another way, simply tax corporations on their domestic income. Interestingly, the United States is increasingly an outlier in the way it tries to tax overseas income View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • June 1992 (Revised August 1992)
    • Case

    Parker-Spencer: The Legal Form of Joint Ventures

    Parker Co., a U.S. based agricultural chemical company with $4 billion in sales, has agreed to a joint venture with Spencer, Inc., a smaller U.S. based company, to develop and market a new herbicide for corn. The two companies must consider marketing, tax, and... View Details
    Keywords: Business Organization; Joint Ventures; Taxation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; United States
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    • 01 Mar 2010
    • News

    Lords of Strategy

    John Weber In his new book, The Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Harvard Business Press), Walter Kiechel III (MBA ’76) traces the... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
    • 22 Feb 2018
    • Book

    The New History of American Capitalism

    taking the subject as given, they explore it as politically constituted. If “the market” is neither a discrete phenomenon nor marginal to human experience, then basic structures of governance become... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing
    • 30 Oct 2018
    • News

    Paths of Victory

    increase in employee retention,” she observes. Makarov says Apli is currently working with its corporate partners to expand internationally and developing selection models for an increasing variety of job... View Details
    Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Administration of Human Resource Programs
    • 14 Mar 2023
    • In Practice

    What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

    exhaustion after several years of dealing with surprises ranging from shortages and runs on basic goods to the Fed’s limited ability to control or even forecast inflation. Something will also have to be said... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
    • 07 Feb 2017
    • News

    Institutional Ownership Spurs Tax Avoidance: Study

    • July–August 2012
    • Article

    A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses

    By: Mihir Desai
    The article argues that U.S. taxation reform should reduce corporate taxes, incorporate an awareness of the global marketplace, and generate revenue-neutral incentives for innovation. According to the article, a reduction in corporate tax rates would be offset by a tax... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Taxation; Globalization; Labor; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • 17 Dec 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    The Rise of Medical Tourism

    describes, the globalization of health care also provides a fascinating angle on globalization generally and is of great interest to corporate strategists. "Apollo... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
    • May 2015 (Revised May 2017)
    • Case

    Colgate-Palmolive Company: Marketing Anti-Cavity Toothpaste

    By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
    In October 2013, Colgate-Palmolive Company, the world's leading oral care company, was about to launch its new Colgate® Maximum Cavity Protection™ plus Sugar Acid Neutralizer™ toothpaste in Brazil. Oral care category accounted for 46 percent of Colgate's $17.4 billion... View Details
    Keywords: New Product Management; Consumer Segmentation; Global Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility; Healthcare; Sustainability; Health Care and Treatment; Environmental Sustainability; Marketing; Segmentation; Product Development; Product Launch; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product Positioning; Consumer Products Industry; Brazil; United States
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    • 08 Sep 2008
    • HBS Case

    The Value of Environmental Activists

    There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    Too Much of a Good Thing?

    result of a "third industrial revolution" whose origins in the United States, he says, can be traced to the leaner and meaner approach to corporate operations that was spurred by the tenfold increase in... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons