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Glamorous Celebrity Deaths and Minimal Taxes in 2010 :: Women on.

Women on Business

As a result, we started 2010 with no estate tax, and the year was fraught with controversy about how to handle estate planning. However, since the new tax changes are only in effect from January 1, 2010 until December 31, 2012, we may face another estate tax controversy down the road.

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The Problem with the Profit Motive in Finance

Harvard Business Review

has a new "white paper" out with the rah rah title, " Financial Services: Safer & Stronger in 2012." You can make a lot of money in finance doing things that are bound blow up in someone's face a few years down the road. That is the plan, right? The largest U.S.

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Who’s Responsible for the Walmart Mexico Scandal?

Harvard Business Review

It broke into the open in April, 2012, when the New York Times published a lengthy investigative piece alleging Walmart bribery in a Mexican subsidiary and a cover-up in its Bentonville, Arkansas, global headquarters. On paper, Walmart appears to have adopted many best practices and to have set out a sound plan for moving forward.

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A Couple Reasons to Smile About

Women on Business

These tax rates will remain in effect through 2012. Extends the repeal of phase-outs of personal deductions and limits on itemized deductions for higher income taxpayers through 2012. Consider using the extra money to pay down debt, save or contribute to your 401(k) plan. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011.

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Case Study: Can an Ethical Bank Support Guns and Fracking?

Harvard Business Review

As the founder and president of a new ethical bank focused on environmental sustainability, Jay McGuane realized that he and his board needed to set guidelines about which loans to approve and which to reject on “values” grounds. Ethical banking had seemed so benign when Jay had decided to enter the industry. Twin Debates.

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A Board Member’s Guide to Corporate Political Spending

Harvard Business Review

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in the Citizens United campaign finance decision that “Business corporations must engage the political process in instrumental terms if they are to maximize shareholder value.” million in the 2006 off-year cycle to more than $300 million in the 2012 presidential cycle.

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Why Private Equity Still Makes Us a Little Queasy

Harvard Business Review

If the auguries of "strategic due diligence" suggest a favorable outcome and bankers are willing to lend lots to help finance the deal, the PE masters of the universe acquire the property and put in place a "performance improvement plan" to make their new asset more profitable. where Bain Capital invested $6.4