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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business Review

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. In a market like social media, a firm’s success can depend on the winner-take-all profits that come from market leadership.).

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How B2B Software Vendors Can Help Their Customers Benchmark

Harvard Business Review

One of its business units, Fieldglass, provides insights and benchmarks to customers on external workforce management. Neustar’s MarketShare software makes it possible for customers to measure the effects of their marketing programs and compare them to other firms.

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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 And, nothing could be more important to our economy than the efficient allocation of financial, real and human capital. Cook testified that the company paid "all the taxes we owe — every single dollar." And yet legal scholar J. Who is right?