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- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
exempting foreign income from U.S. taxation. This could be accompanied by some bells and whistles to ensure that American firms didn't react to exemption by trying to shift profits offshore more so than they do now. Depending on these... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
luck. Together, these results raise the possibility that the American public views the allocations of taxes and pre-tax outcomes as morally relevant, a judgment that is inconsistent with conventional objectives depending solely on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
valuations, those less willing to pay to avoid disclosure. Microsoft attracts high-valuation consumers. Which of these two strategies yields highest profits depends on how consumer valuations compare to disclosure revenues, that is, on... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
firm: whether he should be involved more extensively in agriculture, processing, distribution, or retail. The answers to these questions depend on his views of the future of the industry and on the governmental institutions that will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
of the different firms triggers a different response depending on the size of the firm: larger firms delegate more responsibility, whereas smaller firms centralize decision making. The increase in substitutability also causes some firms... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries, and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one platform depends crucially on whether or not the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
concluding section. Global companies will need to organize cross-functional value capture teams focused on appropriating value from their know-how and reputation by combining different institutional, market, and nonmarket tools, depending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
activities of firms operating in more than 100 countries with input-output tables. In line with the model's predictions, we find that whether a firm integrates upstream or downstream suppliers depends crucially on the elasticity of demand... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
develop a theoretical model introducing principled pragmatism—a novel strategy process that enables entrepreneurs to make changes to their fledgling businesses while portraying faithfulness to enduring aims. Our framework suggests that technology ventures’ success... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
the structure of managerial capitalism. Our book addresses this growing chasm between today's people and the organizations upon which they must depend for consumption and employment. The last fifty years have seen the rise of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
among those who think they have nothing to lose. Western governments have also come to appreciate that the world's financial system, which came close to meltdown on several occasions in the 1990s, depends on political stability to sustain... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
violence, willingness to settle and make peace are remarkably flexible and dependent upon these cues. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55574 November 2018 Review of Middle East Studies Syrian Refugees in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
bilateral energy relations with Russia at the expense of a common stance on the continent's dependence on Russian gas, and much to dismay of other EU members. This pattern of international relations carries profound implications for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
types of earnings benchmarks. We estimate that marketing actions can be used to boost quarterly net income by up to 5% depending on the depth and duration of promotion. However, there is a price to pay, with the cost in the following... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
continue with the development strategy of economic diversification set forth by his father. Yet, it is not clear if the ambitious investments in infrastructure, education, tourism, and real estate Emir Hamad made were enough to steer the economy away from its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
everything I believe in. Either they work or not. That is the job of being chief executive. Fortunately, they did work." She was quick to point out, however, that the approach depended on high-quality leadership throughout the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
project. Finally, the Mars program highlights that there are some decisions that are best made outside individual projects, especially in the context of a program or change initiative where projects are linked over time, therefore creating View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
Publication:Social Choice and Welfare (forthcoming) Abstract We take a decision theoretic approach to the classic social choice problem, using data on the frequency of choice problems to compute social choice functions. We define a family of social choice rules that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
towards those customers for whom the intervention will pay off, therefore increasing the value of customers while maximizing the return on the marketing efforts. Targeting effectively ultimately depends on the firm's ability to precisely... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
with a demonstrably successful model enhances the ability to zig. However, pursuing transformative scale requires a deep understanding of the operational model and its underlying costs. Second, an organization’s ability to zag depends on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne