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Why Leaders Are Still So Hesitant to Invest in New Business Models

Harvard Business Review

Today, the majority of market value is made up of intangible assets (networks, platforms, intellectual property, customer relationships, big data) more than physical assets. In fact, it’s not even close: intangible assets make up over 80% of the S&P 500’s market value — a complete reversal from 1975.

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On Creative Accounting: Two Creativity Myths

Harvard Business Review

Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. As long as the new ideas cohere with ethical standards, and generally accepted accounting principles ( GAAP ), they can yield immense benefits. Tags: Creativity Ethics Innovation GAAP. "Creative accounting" is really bad. Except when it's good.

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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 Second, the rise of intangible assets, like patents and widgets, means that transfer pricing issues become central, and so high tax rates become more untenable as they increase the incentives to be aggressive. And yet legal scholar J.