Taxing Spending: The Case For a National Consumption Tax
If Rodney Dangerfield were a tax form, he’d be a 1040: As the federal income tax nears its 100th birthday, next year, it’s getting no respect. Presidential candidates have one-upped one another with...
View ArticleA Taxing Business: Understanding America’s Corporate Tax System
General Electric’s motto is “imagination at work.” But in 2011, GE became an icon for imagination of a different sort: creative ways of dodging corporate income taxes. The New York Times reported...
View ArticleQ&A: Big Data Past, Present, and Future
Click-throughs, likes, tweets, keywords, bounces, reviews. These are all examples of information being collected, parsed, analyzed and shared by all units in all companies, across industries. Big Data,...
View ArticleSoak the Rich? UT Professors Skeptical About Buffett Rule
Raise my taxes, please! That was the request of Warren Buffett, the 81-year-old CEO of Berkshire Hathaway and the third-richest man in the world. In August 2011 he penned a New York Times op-ed calling...
View ArticleReading the Market’s Lips: Presidential Tax Rhetoric and Securities Prices
It’s an election year. One presidential candidate is pledging that, if he’s elected, he’ll raise taxes on the wealthy. The other promises that taxes will never go up on his watch.Sound familiar? The...
View ArticleVoters Favor Obama on Energy, says UT Poll
Attention, presidential candidates! After weeks of debating about energy, it might be time to do some listening. In September, The University of Texas at Austin Energy Poll questioned American...
View ArticleTaxmageddon: Is the Fiscal Cliff an Economic Doomsday?
As 2012 ticks down to its final days, it’s not just buffs of the Mayan calendar who fear the end of the world as we know it. Assuming doomsday does not arrive Dec. 21, the nation could face another...
View ArticleMaking Mobile Ads Smarter
In the 2002 film "Minority Report," set in 2054, Tom Cruise walks past store windows that bombard him with personalized ads, in the form of holograms. At the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce...
View ArticleOpportunity In Store for Online Sellers
Prabhudev Konana has seen the future of retail stores, and it’s a racket — a tennis racket.At a big-box sporting goods store, the chair of the Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management...
View ArticleRethinking the Nature of Information
Public companies still follow disclosure rules set more than 70 years ago, in a world that didn’t have global corporations, credit default swaps or the Internet. Henry T.C. Hu, Allan Shivers Chair in...
View ArticleHigh Noon at the D.C. Corral: The Debt Ceiling Showdown
In January, America found itself in the middle of yet another High Noon standoff over the national debt. Once again, the U.S. Treasury hit the limit on what it can legally borrow, and once again,...
View ArticleActivist Investors Cause Headaches for Boards, Boost Value for Stockholders
As the latest headlines from Dell and Apple remind us, activist investors are the Kardashians of the business world. Love them or hate them, everyone’s got an opinion on them.read more
View ArticleBuilding a Better Lithium-Ion Battery
It’s been a rough ride lately for the lithium-ion battery. Though practically all of us carry one around — they power everything from cell phones to iPods — the lightweight cells have sparked some...
View ArticleUT Energy Poll Shows Divides on Hydraulic Fracturing, Climate Change
Americans have fractured feelings about today’s boom in natural gas. They want more of it produced here at home, but they’re sharply divided about the chief technology for getting it out of the ground:...
View ArticleTiming and Precision of Earnings Forecasts Can Reveal Bad News Ahead
This is the cruelest time of year for companies with bad earnings news. While most people are viewing basketball playoffs and Texas bluebonnets, investors are watching for first-quarter earnings...
View ArticleAs Buyout Looms, Dell Invests in Experience
If you’re entering a $24 billion dance contest for the world’s fourth-largest computer maker, you need a partner who brings something to the dance. On that score, Michael Dell seems to be making the...
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Want to Buy American? Look Beyond the Label
Primary image Short title Want to Buy American? Look Beyond the Label Teaser Nothing says red, white, and blue like where you spend your green. But before you set out on a patriotic shopping spree,...
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Reinventing the ER: Hospital Takes Cues from Assembly Lines
Primary image Short title Reinventing the ER Teaser Adopting management strategies from other industries is a key step in improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the U.S. healthcare...
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Are Americans Losing Interest in Energy?
Primary image Short title Are Americans Losing Interest in Energy? Teaser A new poll shows that consumers are becoming less concerned about energy issues, but many still worry about the consequences...
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Healthcare Rationing Under the Radar
Primary image Short title Healthcare Rationing Under the Radar Teaser Critics of the Affordable Care Act worry the law will cause healthcare providers to limit the quality of treatment they offer...
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