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- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
distributional side the proposal is pretty blunt. It basically says, let's raise the standard deduction, and it's not clear exactly where the brackets will be at the low end. There is a policy, the Earned View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2024
Top Business School's Discuss: Trailblazing the Path to Business School
Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of first generation and low income students... View Details
- 10 Jul 2023
Top Business Schools Discuss: Trailblazing the Path to Business School
Graduate School of Business, Tuck School of Business, and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania to learn about their MBA programs and the experience of first generation & low income students... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Contrarian and Proud of It
Rogers: Stellar stock picker. Courtesy T. Rowe Price Brian Rogers (MBA ’82) has made a career out of being a contrarian. As manager of the $18.9 billion T. Rowe Price Equity Income Fund, the firm’s largest offering, Rogers has produced... View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
countries and territories in Asia designated by the World Bank as Low Income, Low Middle Income or Upper Middle Income (view complete list: World... View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
it aim to do, and why can it be controversial? Vincent Dessain: A flat tax is as an income tax; it basically applies the same rate of tax to everyone and to each component of income. As opposed to a progressive tax system, which has the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
Image by Brian Stauffer What would the "perfect" tax plan look like? Sheridan Schechner (MBA/JD 1983), managing director, Barclays Capital, USA I'd envision three simple building blocks: a consumption tax with no exclusions that eliminates the penalty to saving; a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
company like Roomi launches on the crowdfunding platform Republic, all of a sudden anyone with some spare cash can ride the highs and lows of its future performance. Until recently, the only way in for mom-and-pop investors was to wait... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
When we talk about a minimum wage increase, what are we really talking about? The US federal minimum wage is not very high—it’s much lower in real terms than it has been for much of the last several decades—and it’s hard to argue that a mild increase in a View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
themselves (Study 2) at different income levels. Data from two national surveys revealed that while laypeople's predictions were relatively accurate at higher levels of income, they greatly overestimated the impact of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
people regard renting as an acceptable option. But I saw another survey recently that concluded that two-thirds of American families preferred to own. I edited a book 15 years ago, Low income Home Ownership:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
climate change and income inequality. They also learn how to drive change at their own companies. One student credits the program with completely changing his perspective: “I feel like a new person, with a new thought process, driven by... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
positively affects childhood development, individual self-esteem, and family viability. Housing is generally considered "affordable" when its cost does not exceed 30 percent of the median family income in a given area. In one typically... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Apr 2011
- News
Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Consulta uses production line best practices to deliver fast, reliable, affordable and standardized medical appointments to low income families that are uninsured and underserved by the public system, in the... View Details
Keywords: Multiple alumni
- Web
Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
cannon on a pedestal mount. Machine gun trainers aimed the canon at a 3-D screen that projected enemy planes, while loudspeakers resounded with engine noise, incoming machine gun fire, and detonations made by the trainers. Optical tracers... View Details
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How $40 Loans Lifted Lives in Kenya | Working Knowledge
some emerging market settings, where access to even small amounts of credit can unlock economic opportunities for these borrowers.” The analysis reveals how financial flexibility—enabled by alternative data—can unlock prosperity in countries where people and businesses... View Details
- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
for low job satisfaction among those surveyed in The Conference Board survey. More than half, Nanninga reports, said "there were no career advancement opportunities in their current roles," but "81 percent of respondents... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 01 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower
set the bar for the next 15 to 25 cities that follow its lead.” For Kinch and Baird, BlocPower’s mission is no less than improving the health and safety as well as the economies of low income neighborhoods... View Details
- 25 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change
(OPM 42, 2012), president of the HBSDC, and Patrick Coady (MBA 1966), who is the events chair for the club’s Environment and Climate Initiative. The conversation focused on helping business leaders and policymakers understand the disproportionate impacts of climate... View Details