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The Conversation We Should Be Having About Corporate Taxes

Harvard Business Review

We have some of our largest and most innovative companies doing this. I actually am optimistic that we can get there; there’s a fair amount of consensus about that. Because this is the greatest place anywhere in the world to invest in innovation and R&D. Bill George: The problem is definitely with the tax code.

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Businesses Can No Longer Avoid Becoming Political

Harvard Business Review

Rather than being undercut by new, lower-cost competitors in rapidly developing economies, such as China and India, companies have globalized their supply chains or offshored their production. This shift is undermining the liberal “Washington Consensus” that has guided policy making since the 1990s.