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- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
focus on what they are doing completely avoids exploring the why. The hopelessness and desperation that one must have to walk through a broken glass window, risking their lives and freedom in an already intensified moment, to get some...
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- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these labor adjustment costs....
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
procurement can be streamlined to avoid inadequate specification of the project’s scope and/or a bad selection process. For example, Senegal’s Infrastructure Council vets projects, the World Bank and other development finance institutions...
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
address his country’s debt crisis by raising taxes and cutting spending—never a popular path. And Stephen Schwarzman acted courageously in cofounding Blackstone, a pioneer in the fields of private equity and alternative asset management...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
these issues. Firms devote more external capital to finance their share repurchases than to avoid regular dividend cuts. Debt is the main source of capital used to externally finance payouts, particularly when credit market conditions are...
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
required to produce four reports for Congress, the last of which is due on March 11, 2009. Read the reports at www.cop.senate.gov/. In addition to shoring up ailing banks, should TARP funds be used to help homeowners avoid default on...
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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
ratings that guide investors to select "socially responsible," and avoid "socially irresponsible," companies. We examine how several hundred firms respond to corporate environmental ratings issued by a prominent...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
pivotal role in the industry during the 1970s by selling Iranian oil to Israel and South Africa. The case provides a means to explore the rationale and advantages of giant commodity traders, as well as enabling students to debate corporate use of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
tax incentives), they will work on the set for months at a time and follow through on marketing once the film is complete. However, there are often no guarantees that a project will make it to the big screen, and for that reason it’s...
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- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper analyzes the impact of the Homeland Investment Act of 2004, which provided a one-time tax holiday for the repatriation of foreign earnings and...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
an additional tax rate of around 11% on the longest lived capital. To pin down credit constraints as the underlying cause, we apply triple differences strategies using foreign ownership or pre-crisis debt maturity. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
on the circumstances and prospects of a company. In fact, companies often turn to outsiders because they have failed to recruit, train, and develop the sort of talent that might take over leadership of the organization. To avoid this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
influence the companies being rated. We focus on corporate environmental ratings, the primary purpose of which is to help investors select "socially responsible" and avoid "socially irresponsible" companies. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
time to avoid the unfolding civil conflict. Clashes between Sri Lanka’s Sinhalese majority and Tamil minority ran from 1983 to 2009, closing down areas of the country for extended periods of time and costing an estimated 100,000 lives. By...
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- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
are doing creative things or learned from mistakes and are willing to share tips and tricks to avoid pitfalls as you scale. While it may make you feel vulnerable, asking your investors for guidance around your own personal development...
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by Julia Austin
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Managing the Business of Life
up there. Any one of them alone is taxing enough, but Monica Dodi has experienced all three in the past two years. Yet the unstoppable entertainment executive, now a single mom, is still smiling and upbeat. "I'm happy and where I want to...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
already decided upon and try to question the advisability of that decision. 8. Advocate caution and urge fellow conferees to avoid haste that might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on. 9. Be worried about the propriety of...
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- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered four major types of actions that...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary situation where different constraints bind for different banks performing the same activity. Second, while a regulatory framework that relies primarily on minimum...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
also fascinating due to all the intricate policy questions that it raises. Joe, what are some of the key policy considerations that are most relevant to development of this market?Fuller: It’s everything from tax—since an employee of a company, let’s say in the United...
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