Publications

November 2023
Article

When Executives Pledge Integrity: The Effect of the Accountant's Oath on Firms' Financial Reporting

By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Caspar David Peter

We study the effect of executives’ pledges of integrity on firms’ financial reporting outcomes by exploiting a 2016 regulation that requires holders of Dutch professional accounting degrees to pledge an integrity oath. We identify chief executive officers (CEOs) and... View Details

Keywords: Integrity; Financial Reporting; Accounting; Earnings Management

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The Architecture of the Integrated Organization

By: Ranjay Gulati

In this research I explore how organizations balance pressures for efficiency with the need to be responsive at the same time. Operating in turbulent global markets it is increasingly important for firms to embrace both global efficiency and also local responsiveness.... View Details

July – August 1998
Article

The Promise--and Peril--of Integrated Cost Systems

By: Robin Cooper and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Cost; System

1986
Chapter

Vertical Integration and Assurance of Markets

By: Jerry R. Green

February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
Case

CLSA: Integrating ESG in Stock Valuation

By: Shirley Lu, Aaron Yoon and Billy Chan

In 2023, a senior financial analyst at the Hong Kong-based stock brokerage firm CLSA was surprised to see that, based on his calculations, the financial impact from climate risks on a major Indian cement manufacturing company’s projected earnings could be massive.... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Analysis; Stocks; Valuation; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Hong Kong; China; India; Asia

Educators

October 2005 (Revised February 2006)
Supplement

Sales Force Integration at FedEx (D)

29 Mar 2023
Podcast

WeaveGrid's AI Solution for EV-to-Grid Integration

In this third episode in our series on climate change and artificial intelligence (AI), Apoorv Bhargava, CEO and co-founder of WeaveGrid, a company that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to help electric utilities optimize the integration of electric... View Details

October 1961 (Revised June 1984)
Case

Standard Oil Co.: Combination, Consolidation, and Integration

March 1971
Case

Massey-Ferguson Ltd.: Integrated Planning and Control (B)

March 1971 (Revised May 1976)
Case

Massey-Ferguson Ltd.: Integrated Planning and Control (A)

12 Feb 2023
News

Economic Integration and the Transmission of Democracy

September 2024
Teaching Plan

CommonSpirit Health: Integrating a Merger of Equals

By: Hise Gibson

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-034. View Details

1993
Book

Integrating Service Strategy in the Manufacturing Company

By: H. Mathe and R. D. Shapiro

Keywords: Business Strategy; Service Operations; Manufacturing Industry

1989
Chapter

Adjusting to an Integrated Global Financial System

By: Samuel Hayes

February 2015 (Revised November 2015)
Supplement

Building an Integrated Biopharma Company: Crucell (B)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Marianne Van Der Steen and Susan Harmeling

The Crucell (B) case updates events at Crucell since 2009. In September, 2009, Johnson & Johnson acquired 18% of Crucell for $400 million. This investment was part of a business development deal. Subsequently, in 2012, Johnson & Johnson acquired Crucell for $2.8... View Details

Keywords: Biotechnology; Biopharmacy Company; Licensing Agreements In Biopharmacy; Licensing; Human Cell-line Technology; Vaccine; Healthcare Innovation; Global Health; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Acquisition; Innovation and Invention; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry