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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

The country has attempted to engage with this significant, often highly educated, and well-connected population through its Compatriots Program, which was launched in 2004. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed.

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Tough Dilemmas for Companies on Campaign Spending

Harvard Business Review

These are some of the most salient issues of campaign finance facing CEOs and boards of directors as the nation heads into what will certainly be a bitter election year, with both houses of Congress and the Presidency up for grabs. The issues arise in the wake of the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

content (news, finance, weather) into two Chinese languages, and directory access to 20,000 web sites, an approach that the company had adopted elsewhere. The idea was simple: Combine the best of both companies into the new Yahoo China, which was projected to generate more than $25 million in revenue in 2004.

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Could a Four-Year-Old Do What Carl Icahn Does?

Harvard Business Review

In 2010 it was $900 million — seventh place. Value: “ Across all of our businesses, our success is based on a simple formula,” Icahn (or someone in his employ) wrote in the most recent annual report of Icahn Enterprises. “[W]e Apple Finance Skill vs. luck' Icahn won that playground tussle. He’s been winning a lot of them lately.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business Review

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. After-tax profits are at historically high levels; they were more than 50% higher as a share of GDP in the years 2010-2015 than they were over the prior 20 years. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S. Further, U.S.