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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.