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  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

What Industrial Policy?

"Taxation, meet Representation." Following up on his pledge to provide greater support for manufacturing, President Obama has announced a proposal to cut the effective tax rate for manufacturers to 25 percent. A number of economists... View Details
Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing
  • 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 believe that they, or at least... View Details
Keywords: income disparity; class mobility
  • 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 affects corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

economic growth and competitiveness—including reforming the corporate tax code, easing immigration for high-skilled immigrants, investing in infrastructure, and aggressively addressing abuses in the international trading system—divisive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Real Estate - Alumni

Giving Real Estate Giving Real Estate You can use a personal residence, vacation home, commercial property, or undeveloped land to make a gift to HBS. How It Works There are three ways to make a gift with real estate: Outright Gift: By giving real estate directly to... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy

paper, "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship," Nanda looks at how entrepreneurial activity is affected across various groups of individuals when a tax reform increases the cost of financing a business.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • Web

Complex Assets - Alumni

Giving Complex Assets Giving Complex Assets Using assets besides cash to support HBS may offer greater tax benefits and enable you to make a larger gift. How it Works Gifts of complex assets include: Tangible personal property (e.g.... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

communities, and make our cities smarter. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-141.pdf The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution Authors:N. Gregory Mankiw and Matthew Weinzierl Abstract Should the income View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Richard A. Bloch

    Bloch and his brother, Henry, pioneered the franchise tax preparation business. H & R Block grew impressively throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Richard understood that the tax preparation business is a... View Details
    Keywords: Services
    • Web

    Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

    related to or connected with anyone on the Specially Designated Nationals List . TAX TREATMENT GO Fellowship awards are reportable to the recipient. Upon receiving an award, recipients will be required to complete View Details
    • 07 Aug 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: August 7, 2007

    complete abandonment of the current system. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13213 Institutional Tax Clienteles and Payout Policy Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Li Jin Abstract This paper employs heterogeneity in... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 30 Mar 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: March 30

    incentive to default through inflation versus hedging against unforeseen shocks. We model and calibrate these arguments to assess their quantitative importance. We use a dynamic equilibrium model with tax distortion, government outlays... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

    different needs from small business. Small businesses have a more difficult time accessing capital, providing health care to their employees, navigating complex regulations at every level of government, and much more. His promises to cut View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
    • Web

    First Generation Students Club | MBA

    First Generation Students Club All recognized student clubs are part of a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax exempt organization, called Student Clubs of HBS, Inc. Each student club at Harvard Business School (HBS) is open to all matriculated HBS... View Details
    • Web

    Business of Animal Protection | MBA

    Business of Animal Protection All recognized student clubs are part of a 501(c)(3) non-profit tax exempt organization, called Student Clubs of HBS, Inc. Each student club at Harvard Business School (HBS) is open to all matriculated HBS... View Details
    • 26 Apr 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: April 26

    examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Mar 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

    social services have to be provided, and those costs tend to offset any tax-base revenues gained from housing. By contrast, with light industry, towns get the tax base without having to add a lot of social services. So communities that... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

      C. Donald Dallas

      repeal the four-cent a pound excise tax on imported copper. To increase Revere’s reach internationally, Dallas acquired a half-interest in a brass and copper manufacturing plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. View Details
      Keywords: Metals
      • 01 Jun 2001
      • News

      On the Inside

      Other HBS alumni are also feeling welcome inside the Beltway. Among them is longtime conservative tax strategist Grover Norquist (MBA ’81), president of Americans for Tax Reform, who “has the Bush... View Details
      Keywords: Government