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  • 22 Apr 2010
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Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan

Keywords: by Douglas J. Skinner & Suraj Srinivasan
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  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

Douglas B. Holt says brand managers have little appreciation for how myths in American culture can be used to create "extraordinary" brand-building opportunities. In this e-mail interview, Holt discusses a recent working paper... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Effective Capital Market Communications

Hutton's most recent research and cases examine how managers enhance the credibility and effectiveness of their financial reports and voluntary disclosures. Her most recent working paper, "Effective Voluntary Disclosure" (co-authored with Greg Miller, HBS, and Douglas... View Details
  • 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6

new data, methodology, and findings presented in this study. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-072.pdf Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan Authors: Douglas Skinner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

Karthik, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing Abstract—Mobile money systems, platforms built and managed by mobile network operators to allow money to be stored as digital currency, have burgeoned in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
  • 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7

  Publications April 2015 Harvard Business Review How to Really Motivate Salespeople By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Much of what we believe about the best ways to compensate and motivate the sales force is based on theory and lab... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 2

of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute Resolution Authors:Fabrice Lumineau and Deepak Malhotra Publication:Strategic Management Journal (in press) Abstract This paper investigates how contract structure influences inter-firm dispute... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

  Working PapersWhat Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner Abstract Based on extant literature, we... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

prints. 29 Douglas A. Fisher worked in the Office of Assistant to Chairman and head of PR, J. Carlisle MacDonald. Fisher also wrote Steel Making in America (New York: United States Steel Corporation, 1949);... View Details
  • December 2010
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Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting

By: S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna and Douglas J. Skinner
Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are critical features of a GAAP shaped by market forces.... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Standards; International Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Reporting
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AASU50 - Alumni

Kimberly A. Kispert, MBA 1981 George L. Van Amson, MBA 1982 Kym M. Nelson, MBA 1983 George Ellis, MBA 1984 Gail S. Morales, MBA 1985 Robert R. Davenport III, MBA 1986 Stuart A. Taylor, II, MBA 1987 Arnold J. Lewis, MBA 1988 Belinda C.... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Architectural Knowledge, and Preferences for Existing Technologies” with J. Lane, Z. Szajnfarber, J. Crusan, and M. Menietti. Himabindu Lakkaraju : Named a 2023 Kavli Fellow by... View Details
  • 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007

effects more than doubled or had consumers' discount factor increased by fifty percent. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-031.pdf   PublicationsIdentity Incentives as an Engaging Form of Control: Revisiting Leniencies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-004.pdf What Should GAAP Look Like? A Survey and Economic Analysis (revised) Authors:S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna, and Douglas J. Skinner... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace