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- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted most. Subsequently the combination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
leakage would result in increased global emissions, undermining the intent of emissions regulation. It is also widely believed that carbon tariffs—carbon taxes imposed on goods imported from an unregulated region to a region subject to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
Divisive Reorganizations Harvard Business School Note 209-042 The note (1) describes "spin-offs" and "split-offs," (2) summarizes the requirements to qualify for tax postponement, and (3) identifies the public policy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
suppliers; for example, easy tasks like determining whether the supplier is a bona fide business entity, or cross-checking the supplier's street address with its phone number and tax ID number. These very obvious and easy things haven't... View Details
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
regulation. It is believed that such leakage adversely increases global emissions. It is also believed that leakage can be eliminated by carbon tariffs, which are taxes imposed on imported goods so that they incur the same emissions cost... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
payoffs differently than private households do. This gives the government a "social risk management" motive: projects that ameliorate market failures when household marginal utility is high are appealing. The second friction is that government financing is costly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
the payroll tax assessed on the self-employed, the median lifetime after-tax earnings gap between self-employment and paid work is approximately zero. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51676 Sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
Entrepreneurship Author:Ramana Nanda Abstract This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
teaching tools. She also served as the COO of Up with People, a nonprofit international youth leadership program. Kim and Coup also have worked on national political campaigns. After reading Jardine’s book, Coup was inspired, even obsessed. He wrote a business plan,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
management; knowledge of the appropriate skills and tools, such as opportunity analysis, deal-structuring, organization design, and innovation supports; command of relevant specific knowledge, including tax law, corporate governance... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
varying political color, such as with Néstor Kirchner (2003–2007), the popular president who helped lead the country out of the financial crisis. But its relationship with the government changed in 2008 when a divisive agricultural export View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
the financial capital of the world was fully functional and that terrorism would not stop the American economy. Secondly, the city's economy needed to have the exchange back in business." (The city's financial sector generates 26 percent of the city's economic output... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
countries, taxes are confiscatory, and in many developing countries, there is no legal protection for intellectual property. Horatio Alger is alive and well in the United States; individual success and achievement is a value encouraged... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
of firm entry and exit, output, and R&D. Taxing the continued operation of incumbents can lead to sizable gains (of the order of 1.4% improvement in welfare) by encouraging exit of less productive firms and freeing up skilled labor to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
country and the world to recognize the opportunity that exists to have a material positive impact on the problems taxing our system by using their skills to build profitable businesses. We’re not talking about charity. We want them to see... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
policy has largely played out is that companies have fought for something very narrow that they want out of government—one particular industry gets one specific tax consideration, for example. It’s unrealistic to suggest that companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
dedicated to churning out homegrown entrepreneurial techies, ought to turbocharge the local startup scene. According to Josh Lerner, government also plays an important role in fostering healthy entrepreneurial ecosystems by doing things like promulgating favorable... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
to be shared in perpetuity, they donated their shares back to a nonprofit. The money involved is pretty staggering. We sell tickets. They're $400 each this year. That changes year to year. And we have to lease the land it's on from the Bureau of Land Management. We... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
domicile through mergers with foreign companies—so-called tax inversion. Should Medtronic proceed with the acquisition? What would be the challenges of integration for both organizations? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
of the term of the next President. We'll have the mechanism that will bring transparency and have this tax support that will make it possible for people to buy health insurance with pre-tax money. Q: And why are the 5 forces that are... View Details