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If Greece Embraces Uncertainty, Innovation Will Follow

Harvard Business Review

This helps to explain why Greece has one of the lowest license and patent revenues from abroad as a percentage of its GDP, as well as one of the lowest contributions from high-tech product exports to its trade balance. This suggests that in addition to short-term policy changes, Greece needs a longer-term cultural shift.

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The Real (and Imagined) Problems with the U.S. Corporate Tax Code

Harvard Business Review

companies don’t pay taxes on debt-financed investments, which amounts to a subsidy. In short, tax rates are lower for companies in practice than in theory, and the distinction between the U.S. collects less corporate tax revenue than peer countries, by about 1% of GDP. And in practice, the foreign income of U.S.

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How Multinationals Can Adapt to a Political Mood That Doesn’t Care for Them at All

Harvard Business Review

Lean cost models that make use of globally centralized control functions (finance, compliance, legal, risk) will no longer be deemed sufficient. of GDP in 2007 to 3.3% Domestic regulators seeking to avoid environmental disasters, accounting scandals, or consumer detriment want responsible parties on the ground.