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1994
Other Unpublished Work

The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1993

By: Dutch Leonard and Monica E. Friar

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Budgets and Budgeting; Government and Politics; United States

1997
Other Unpublished Work

The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1996

By: Dutch Leonard and Jay H. Walder

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Budgets and Budgeting; Government and Politics; United States

1998
Other Unpublished Work

The Federal Budget and the States: Fiscal Year 1997

By: Dutch Leonard and Jay H. Walder

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Budgets and Budgeting; Government and Politics; United States

11 Mar 2020
News

The U.S. President faces a triple threat of crises

14 Jun 2018
News

Dhivya Suryadevara Named GM’s Next CFO

and in GM’s investment in Lyft. Furthermore, according to Fortune, when Suryadevara joins the c-suite in September, she will be part of a growing class of female chief financial executives. With 64 CFOs in the Fortune 500, women account... View Details

Keywords: Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

10 Mar 2017
News

As Head of Fidelity, Abigail Johnson Is Just Getting Started

buyout plan, looking to trim 3,000 senior staff from its 45,000 employees in order to make room for younger hires. According to industry analysts, the moves are designed to protect and expand upon Fidelity’s status as the largest American online brokerage, with 17.9... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Profile

Mengwen Zhao

when you're faced with difficult situations?" Mengwen offers accounting as an example. "Other business schools give you how-to techniques. But at HBS, you learn how accounting fits within overall... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; CPG; Healthcare/Biotech

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Organizations & Markets James Sebenius Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent General Management Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 The Anatomy of Fraud (TAF) View Details

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Nathalie du Preez

views with others, it sharpens your emotional intelligence — you become more astute. As a leader, you have to take into account different perspectives. HBS courses give you a taste of what you'll face when you graduate." As an... View Details

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Commodities Research: data and reports

terminal. There are five Bloomberg terminals in the Stamps Reading Room and three Bloomberg terminals in the Exchange. Individual accounts required. Please see the View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Saving Grace

Illustration by Neil Webb About a year before he reached retirement, Frank Chapman started mapping out the travels he and his wife envisioned for their golden years. A career accountant for British telecom companies, he thought it best to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

May 1995 (Revised April 1998)
Case

AT&T Paradyne

By: Robert S. Kaplan

A company making data communication devices has adopted a Total Quality philosophy for working with suppliers, employees, and customers. The finance group finds its existing cost system has become obsolete because of a shift from manual to automatic production... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Product; Corporate Accountability; Activity Based Costing and Management; System; Performance Efficiency; Financial Reporting; Operations; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry

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July 2011
Case

Barrick Gold: Implementing a Transition to IFRS

By: David F. Hawkins and Angel R. Solis

Barrick Gold must change from Canadian – GAAP to IFRS. Case covers the transition. View Details

Keywords: International Accounting; Transition; Mining Industry; Canada

Educators

08 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure

Keywords: by Jyothika Grewal, Edward J. Riedl & George Serafeim

October 1998 (Revised January 1999)
Case

Echlin vs. SPX

By: Paul M. Healy, Bjorn N. Jorgensen and Penny Joseph

Echlin has received a hostile takeover offer from SPX. Both companies have been undertaking major restructurings, and Echlin's shareholders face a difficult decision of whether to support current management or sell out to SPX. Students are asked to analyze the two... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Financial Statements; Business and Shareholder Relations

September 1983
Article

Budgetary Time Bombs: Controlling Government Loan Guarantees

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Donald R. Lessard and Scott P. Mason

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Government and Politics; Financing and Loans

January 2005
Tutorial

Buying Time

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Managers must frequently make decisions involving trade-offs between cash flows to be paid or received at different points in time. Accountants, in turn, must describe transactions that involve the payment and/or receipt of cash far in the future. This interactive... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Value; Interest Rates; Financial Statements

June 2000
Case

Risk Management and Leasing at Nissan Motor Corporation, USA

Market pressures, accounting, and managerial incentives can result in managerial choices that have a long-term detrimental effect on the firm. View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Value; Decision Choices and Conditions; Accounting; Auto Industry

March 2022
Case

Metric

By: Christina Wallace, Rebecca Cink and Maria Lappas

Megan Murday, the founder of Metric, an environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) analytics startup, must decide which customer segment to target as a beachhead market. She received positive feedback from a Swiss venture capital (VC) firm, indicating their... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Customers

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