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  • 18 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

used for general nutrition, but calorie needs vary.” A text warning label with wording similar to what San Francisco used in its labels: “WARNING: Drinking beverages with added sugar(s) contributes to obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay.”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations
  • 19 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

“Most [business scholars] would agree that our primary duties include teaching our students and generating new knowledge in our research,” writes Toffel. “But the lack of practical relevance of much of our research might suggest that few... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

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

media, notably Twitter, to generate grassroots support around his call to make America great again. Effective communications and wise targeting of resources against key voter segments, notably in swing states, were equally important in... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

proportional to dividend yields. Portfolio strategies differ in the pace of capital gains realization. We use the federal tax codes from 1926 through 2007 to construct the after-tax returns that individual investors, corporations, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 6

  PublicationsDoes Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth? Exploring the Role of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Areendam Chanda, and Selin Sayek Publication:Journal of Development Economic (forthcoming) Abstract Do... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently subsidize U.S. direct investment abroad. Investments are dynamically inefficient if they consistently generate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2015
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First Look: May 19

Abstract—The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

income taxation. I show analytically how age dependence improves policy on both the intratemporal and intertemporal margins. I use detailed numerical simulations, calibrated with data from the U.S. PSID, to generate robust policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

  PublicationsDo Strong Fences Make Strong Neighbors? Authors:Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Publication:National Tax Journal 63 (December 2010) Abstract Many features of U.S. tax policy towards... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

reducing tax revenues. Unable or unwilling to raise tax rates, cities cut public spending, especially in education, to meet a tighter budget constraint. While the fall in tax... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to illustrate how tax shelter products enable managers to manipulate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

disagree with this assumption, preferring tax policies based at least in part on a classic alternative objective: the principle of Equal Sacrifice. I generalize the standard model to accommodate this... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

With less internally generated cash flow available to fund the project, management had to decide how much capital to raise, what kind to raise, and when to raise it. These decisions would determine its capital structure, at least in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 May 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

mobilizing capital and tax planning globally and this can come at the expense of the local partner. Imagine the conflicting objectives in trying to put a price on a component purchased by the joint venture from a related party of the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

Summing Up The global corporation and globalization in general are poised to achieve new and different heights, if responses to this month's column are to be believed. As Greg Bownik put it, "for globalization to peak businesses... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007

Harvard Business School Case 107-035 Obadiah Vineyard's owners create financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) to help them obtain funding to plant more acreage. The owners grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

Summing Up What Will it Take to Save the Managed Mutual Fund? In this month's column, I purposely took what I assumed was an extreme position in asking if this was the twilight era for the managed mutual fund. The responses the column View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Feb 2015
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

revitalize the downtown area using generous tax incentives. This effort has led to a 40 percent increase in tech companies with offices in the city from 2010 to 2013. "They have been trying to balance... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

Even as citizens generate more data than ever before, most cities haven’t taken full advantage of that information flow to improve services and become more efficient. “Historically, cities have been moving in analog, trying to measure... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 28 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

is for companies to frame goals in terms of promotion, and what we show here is that this might actually lead to cheating as a side effect.” The dichotomy raises an important question: If employees are generally focused on the benefits of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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