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  • 01 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 1

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=Marketplace_Reseller_HBS%20WP%2001312014.pdf August 2013 Corporations and Citizenship Can For-Profit Corporations Be Good Citizens? Perspectives from Four... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

relative to financially under-developed ones. Mergers That Stick Authors:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 84, no. 10 (October 2009) An abstract is unavailable. Purchase the article: http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/10/mergers-that-stick/ar/1... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities
  • 2021
  • Case

Starbucks: Opposing a Local Tax to Address Homelessness while Promoting Social Justice

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
In 2018, the Seattle City Council unanimously voted 9-0 for a tax that would require companies whose annual revenue surpassed $20 million to pay the city $275 per employee per year. The tax money would then be used to combat homelessness in Seattle. In response,... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; City; Welfare; Wealth and Poverty; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Seattle
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  • January 2007 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

H&R Block 2006

By: Peter Tufano
Mark Ernst, the Chairman, CEO and President of H&R Block, has to decide how to respond to a competitive threat posed by a competitor's refund-lending product. Block is the largest U.S. tax preparation firm, which competes not only on its tax preparation services, but... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Taxation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competition; Financial Services Industry
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  • 08 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan

the free market should be given greater room to run unfettered, while the government’s role in the economy should be diminished. Trimming taxes on high-income households, minimizing the estate tax, and substantially cutting corporate... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

countries. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-073.pdf The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms' Corporate Tax Planning Authors:Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz, and Sonja Olhoft Rego Abstract This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of diversified business groups and other comparable models of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

empirical evidence is most persuasive in favor of agency considerations. Studies centered on the May 2003 dividend tax cut confirm that differences in the taxation of dividends and capital gains have only a second-order impact on setting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

concerns about that. The notion took hold that people at the top should pay some extra in income tax or the corporations should be asked to pay for some of the benefits that they were getting for being a part of the system. You got this... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • April 1996 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Times Mirror Company PEPS Proposal Review

By: Peter Tufano
Times Mirror Co. (TMC) owns a substantial block of Netscape common stock purchased prior to Netscape's IPO, on which it has substantial unrealized gains. TMC is restricted from selling the stock in a public offering and is therefore considering a proposal by Morgan... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Stocks; Taxation; Corporate Finance; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

reasons—and revisits the associated implications for investing and corporate finance, examining asset allocation, high leverage in financial firms, low leverage in industrial firms, private equity, venture capital, and bank capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

between domestic employment conditions and the growth of foreign operations by American firms have led to calls for increased taxation on foreign operations—the so-called "end to tax breaks for companies that ship our jobs... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

research on institutional leadership, strategic contradiction, and industry evolution. Understanding Different Approaches to Benefit-Based Taxation By: Scherf, Robert, and Matthew C. Weinzierl Abstract—The normative principle of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

forces in a company's government, legal, and social environment. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707469 U.S. Taxation of Foreign-Source Corporate Income... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

Diversity, Equal Sacrifice and Optimal Taxation Author:Matthew Weinzierl Abstract The workhorse model of optimal taxation strongly recommends tagging, but its use in policy is limited. I argue that this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 23

  Working PapersCatering to Characteristics (revised) Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel Hanson Abstract When investors overvalue a particular firm characteristic, corporations endowed with that characteristic can absorb some of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

  PublicationsThe Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence Authors:David Collis, David Young, and Michael Goold Publication:Journal of International Management 18, no. 3 (September... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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