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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business Review

So, investors, and therefore managers, might be adjusting their approach to risk accordingly. Therefore, companies see little value in disclosing the details of their current and planned projects in their financial disclosures, even if those disclosures can reduce the information asymmetry between investors and managers.

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The U.S. Corporate Tax Code Is Broken. How Should We Fix It?

Harvard Business Review

Richard Harvey, in earlier testimony, said that the company managed to avoid about $7.7 The second and third questions raise enforcement and compliance issues — for the second question, things are clear. Cook testified that the company paid "all the taxes we owe — every single dollar." And yet legal scholar J. Who is right?