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  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

employment history includes experience in investment banking, auditing, or private equity/venture capital. On average, we find that former auditors are significantly more likely to impair goodwill. However, further investigation reveals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Erika Sanchez

Boeing’s Enterprise Auditor Program “gave me broad exposure to different functions, from finance and program management to quality control and investor relations.” “A whole new level you can’t even imagine.” At Boeing, a mentor encouraged... View Details
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Field Course: Startup Operations Studio (SOS) - Course Catalog

be eligible to apply for enrollment in SOS Career Focus The Startup Operations Studio is for students who have successfully completed Startup Operations in the fall term as either founders or joiners. Auditors who attended at least 12 of... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

performance. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr   Working Papers Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards By: Allen, Abigail M., Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—We examine how Big N auditors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses - Course Catalog

Cross-Registrants/Auditors The course is open to a very limited number of cross-registrants. Auditors are not permitted. Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. View Details
  • 03 Mar 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

auditors and audit committees whose mutual survival depends on each other, overly complicated accounting and tax systems, and the nature of the reporting relationships between internal auditors and those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 25 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 25

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378899 Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Supply chain View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

Arthur Andersen, stated in a written testimony that "the future of the [accounting] profession is bright and will remain bright —as long as the commission does not force us into an outdated role trapped in the old economy. Unfortunately, the proposed rule [on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

external compliance pressure in their domestic institutional environment, when their buyers take a cooperative approach to monitoring, and when their auditors are highly trained. We find, further, that a cooperative approach to monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Nov 2019
  • News

Scranton Elects First Female Mayor

really seemed like the perfect storm where I would have the backing of the auditor general, who knows and has seen some of what’s going on in Scranton, where you still have this graft and this nepotism and this patronage network that has... View Details
Keywords: politics; leadership; women; career paths; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

through reduction of firm variability, we do not find this offsetting beneficial effect to be strong. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2252200 What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2018
  • News

Tim Keller, Heavy Metal Mayor

state auditor before running for mayor, and cites Keller’s belief in heavy metal music for its capacity to bring people from varied backgrounds together—particularly in the Southwest. “Despite a reputation for metal skewing Anglo, it... View Details
  • 06 Dec 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

short run versus large costs of unknowable certainty in the future. As examples of predictable surprises, they suggest such things as the rise of terrorism, compromises of auditor independence (and its implications for the general decline... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

Quality: Evidence from 1978-1980 Authors:Kevin Koh, Shivaram Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Abstract We provide evidence for the long-standing concern on auditor conflicts of interest from providing non-audit services (NAS) to audit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea Hugill Abstract—Outsourcing firms increasingly rely on social auditors to provide strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2017
  • News

Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits

2005), the former state auditor of New Mexico, who was elected mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico in November; Margaret Busse (MBA 2001), who is running for Massachusetts state senate; Adem Bunkeddeko (MBA 2017), who is running for a US... View Details
Keywords: politics
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

document the dysfunctional role of the airlines in weakening airline security throughout the '90s and into the twenty-first century. We also show the dysfunctional role of the lead auditing firms in keeping auditor independence from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Srinivasan, who also cites the important role of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), a nonprofit private corporation created by SOX that oversees auditors of SEC-registered companies. Markets Have Benefitted Despite... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

domestic civil society and when their buyers are more sensitive to such exposure. At the program design level, we find that suppliers improve more when the monitoring regime signals a cooperative approach and when auditors are highly... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman