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- 24 Feb 2014
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A Capital Idea for Small Business
regulation." But timing is everything, and the collection of legislative bills that ultimately was assembled into the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama on April 5, 2012, began... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
change? Congress has already passed a piece of legislation that is tremendously important to the consumer-driven movement. Health savings accounts, established as part of the Medicare prescription drug bill in 2003, will allow the... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- News
Exploring tax policy and our quality of life
For Professor Matthew Weinzierl, tax policy is about much more than dollars and cents. The questions of why we tax and what we tax, and similar policy decisions, offer a window on our society. “People don’t always understand the technical details of these policies; but... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
LERNER: The federal government lacks a clear, rational process for spending $40 billion to boost the nation’s clean-tech industry. Across the decades and around the globe, governments have tried various approaches to kick-starting entrepreneurial activity. In his new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
choice among those alternatives. That’s where these personal commitments can come into play. We’ve been teaching this case since 2016, and there are moments when I think we have the privacy issue under control, that we have a sense of what’s required, and we can put... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
legislative bills and trying to pass a budget; we are now in an emergency-management situation,” he recalls. Difficult as that time was, it set Simmons up as the perfect candidate for his next role. In April 2021, after Cardona was... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action more urgent than ever. This is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
Proposed legislation known as the Revitalizing Downtowns Act would establish a new tax credit for office conversions, and the General Services Administration, the agency in charge of federal property, is marketing its surplus real estate... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
regulators have the necessary tools to encourage people to come forward with information? Heese: Our research focuses on specific legislation known as the False Claims Act, which was the first cash-for-information whistleblower law in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
action legislation helped to level the playing field in the same way as the GI Bill? The top CEOs in business are usually between 45 and 65 years old, so it takes a couple of generations to see the impact of View Details
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
What debt ceiling? I haven’t been on Mars for the last two weeks, but close to it .off in the woods and on vacation, unplugged, untethered, and blissfully out of touch. So I missed the all-consuming topic that must have driven everyone crazy while I was away. Somehow,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
(photo by Brooks Kraft/Getty) Sunny jobs reports and shrinking unemployment numbers might give the impression that the US economic recovery is complete. Scratch beneath that surface, though, and a much bleaker trend emerges, says a new report from three HBS professors:... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
Stephen Moret has long been driven by a passion for advocacy and leadership. As copresident of the HBS Student Association (SA), Moret created an online “Student Issues Poll” as a way to bridge the communication gap between students, the SA, and the HBS administration.... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Christopher Cox: Capitol Hill Intellectual
experience. Such experience has served him well as he has introduced numerous pieces of legislation that have, among other things, repealed inheritance taxes (the so-called death tax), banned taxes on Internet commerce, and limited... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards
investments, and their responsibility to investors? Legislation mandating reform can be passed quickly compared with the time needed to change people’s behavior. Some believe that things won’t really change until we have a new generation... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
Johnson say the clauses stifle innovation and hamstring employees. Currently, only three states largely ban noncompetes: California, North Dakota, and Oklahoma. Opposition groups in other states are working on several fronts. If they can’t get a ban, they’re pushing to... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Oct 2002
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Sam Hayes
committee, established by then SEC chair Arthur Levitt, to formulate best practices with regard to stockbrokers' activities and compensation. These were not legislative remedies, they were recommendations for voluntary standards of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the enterprise in which I had made a relatively small... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and... View Details