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  • May 2015
  • Article

Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Aida Sijamic Wahid and Gwen Yu
We study the frequency of restatements by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We find that the restatement rate of U.S. listed foreign firms is significantly lower than that of comparable U.S. firms and that the difference depends on the firm's home country... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Restatements; Home Country Enforcement; Earnings Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Law; Financial Reporting; Financial Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • 08 Nov 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting

Keywords: by Suraj Srinivasan, Aida Sijamic Wahid & Gwen Yu
  • 18 Apr 2022
  • News

Home Grown

started InMobi? Naveen Tewari: I always felt that the country has had the ability, the technological prowess, the entrepreneurial spirit to be able to build something. And we have had scenarios of, you know, a few companies getting built... View Details
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Growing Home

to the nation of Japan and the people in Japan to make the country a better place. The third kokorozashi I have is to make Mito a better city through the Mito Downtown Rebirth Project. DM: Why is it important for us to not lose cities... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 01 Aug 2002
  • News

Wine Country Reunion

accomplishments. Highlights included a vineyard tour, winetastings, fine dining, and a reception at the home of Peggy and Timm Crull. Pictured above are reunion organizers Joe Fitzpatrick, Don Moffitt, and Timm Crull, who chaired the... View Details
  • fall 2010
  • Article

Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America

By: Faisal Z. Ahmed, Laura Alfaro and Noel Maurer
The re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected repayment). The problem originates... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Debt Securities; Motivation and Incentives; Markets; Equity; Banking Industry; Latin America
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  • 23 Jan 2020
  • News

Bringing Education Back Home

Edgar Kelly-Garcia (MBA 1998) is founder and dean of Universidad of San Sebastian in Mexico. In this interview from June 2018 he discusses the origins of the idea to launch a school in one of the poorest areas of his country along with... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

particularly the Gulf economically, said Vogel, yet only countries around the periphery of the Arabian peninsula have joined so far. "The big elephant," he said, is Saudi Arabia. It is nowhere near being able to join the WTO,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2019
  • Blog Post

Coming Home to HBS

husband and I were starting a family at the same time I was starting my MBA, I applied only to schools that met the following two criteria: Located where my husband would have been able to relocate with his job; Was a top school. Since we were moving out of our View Details
  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

[PDF]. To start, responding strategically to these changes requires a reconceptualization of what a corporate home is, says Desai. "Managers need to make conscious choices about how to unbundle the activities that have traditionally been... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2010
  • Working Paper

Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper offers a longitudinal and descriptive analysis of the strategies of multinationals from developed countries in developing countries. The central argument is that strategies were shaped by the trade-off between opportunity and risk. Three broad... View Details
Keywords: History; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations
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  • 08 Apr 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Fast Lane to Country Lane

TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to launching her husband’s... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Positive impact that hits home

of a fellowship. “I still think about money in our local currency,” Seck Mercier says, “and with the two years’ cost of Harvard Business School, in my country I could buy a lot of real estate.” Seck Mercier says her fellowship means... View Details
  • May 2010
  • Case

Clayton Industries, Inc.: Peter Arnell, Country Manager for Italy

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Benjamin H. Barlow
Clayton Industries, a sixty-year-old U.S.-based firm in the HVAC industry (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), with nearly $1 billion in revenues, has gradually built a presence in a number of countries, including several in Europe. Peter Arnell, previously... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Sales; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Wisconsin; Italy; United Kingdom
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Cut from the Same Cloth: Similarly Dishonest Individuals Across Countries

By: Heather E. Mann, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf, Juan Tafurt and Dan Ariely
Norms for dishonest behaviors vary across societies, but whether this variation is related to differences in individuals’ core tendencies toward dishonesty is unknown. We compare individual dishonesty on a novel task across 10 participant samples from five countries... View Details
Keywords: Morality; Decision-making; Dishonesty; Cultural Psychology; Country; Decision Making; Culture
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  • 02 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

We have created a housing hybrid in America, refashioning the single-family home into a mini debtors' prison. Almost 11 million dot the landscape. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, over 50 percent of homeowners live in one. “Understandably, most... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

    Personal Relationships and Enforcement of Management Controls: An Analysis of Punishments for Perpetrators of Economic Crimes

    To explore how companies enforce management control systems, we examine whether social relationships influence the severity and consistency of punishments for main perpetrators of corporate economic crimes. We find wide variation in rates of dismissal and... View Details
    • 24 Jul 2014
    • Op-Ed

    Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

    Editor's Note. Given a veritable flood over the last year of corporate "inversions"—US companies that reincoporate in other countries to take advantage of favorable tax rates and business regulations—lawmakers in Washington D.C.... View Details
    Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical
    • 11 Oct 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

    opportunity seems obvious: If you operate in a sexist country full of educated, experienced women with expertise on their home country, then it makes sense to hire those women into management roles.... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel