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How NASA Uses Telemedicine to Care for Astronauts in Space

Harvard Business Review

They determine what material and intangible means of disease and trauma prevention, diagnosis, and treatment are needed for each mission. Medicines, instruments, consumables, and exercise devices belong to material assets; intangible assets involve medical expertise on board and on the ground, processes, procedures, and protocols.

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Profiting from the Golden Rule

Harvard Business Review

Listen in on MBA classes and corporate conferences and you will hear a lot of talk about the need for inspiring missions, ethical behavior and transcendent purpose. Even accounting rules specifically dealing with reputation — goodwill and intangible assets — are subject to frequent rule changes and endless debate.

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What Workers and Companies Should Know About the Republican Tax Bills

Harvard Business Review

A House-Senate conference committee still needs to reconcile the two bills, with the goal of finishing before Christmas. corporations to accumulate assets in those affiliates (now estimated at $2.6 Because commentators have raised awareness of these effects, it is likely that the conference will restore the AMT repeal.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

These are often referred to as “intangible assets,” but it’s worth getting more specific than that. Earlier this year, Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani asked this question to a group of conference attendees. Why, then, did Apple prevail?