Integrated Corporate Reporting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2008
News

India is more Transparent

First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 1997
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Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field

emerging technologies. Looking at corporate strategy, Cynthia Montgomery and Associate Professor David J. Collis recently published Corporate Strategy: Resources and the Scope of the Firm, a work that... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2013
News

Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System

a survey of US health-care executives conducted for the forum, Huckman reported that 55 percent of respondents believed that, considering quality and cost in combination, America is losing ground relative to other nations. But problems... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2011
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HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations

replicated elsewhere. Noting that other business schools have already implemented curriculum changes with similar leadership, global, and integrative goals, Moon observed, “If anyone can crack the code to get this right, it’s HBS.” —Roger... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

an international corporation by taking the best ideas from everywhere it has a presence and implementing them worldwide throughout its entire system.” Rohit Deshpandé also sees local context as integral to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown

committed—his victims lost almost $10 billion in the failed exchange—makes even the crimes of Bernie Madoff pale in comparison, says Professor Eugene Soltes. His work focuses on corporate integrity and risk... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

21 Sep 2016
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Ideas with Economic and Social Impact

Corporation (IFC) and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Her report, Financing High-Growth Firms, the Role of Angel Investors, written for and published by the OECD in 2011, has attracted interest from... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

Canada for prescription drugs as a form of civil disobedience. This kind of grassroots response is an important preliminary step toward addressing the rising costs of medicine, he said. Other speakers included Raytheon Chairman Daniel P. Burnham (now retired), speaking... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2004
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The Weather Channel Forecast: Challenges Ahead

Channel each day. And its weather.com site draws one of the largest audiences on the Web. The network is so popular that it opted not to hang its corporate logo on its Atlanta headquarters for fear of being overrun by tourists. But... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

24 Apr 2014
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Bringing women to the boardroom table

placed, none were CEOs; all had expertise that exactly matched the client’s specifications: only three reported to a CEO, two had previous corporate board experience, one was known to someone on the board,... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Letters to the Editor

principles and objectives as outlined in Enron’s annual report and diligently ask the questions necessary to determine if, in fact, those principles and objectives were being followed by management. They clearly were not. R.E. Mercer (AMP... View Details

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

01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word

set itself apart from the pack with uncompromising integrity and accuracy, especially in the rating of structured finance products such as asset-backed securities. Although Becker never spoke with Kroll directly while writing the case,... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Apr 1997
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How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries

According to the West Club's trip organizers, Francis Tapon (HBS '97) and Nadine Weil (HBS '97), students benefited enormously from the experience. "Many participants told us they learned a lot, made a number of significant contacts, and had a ball in the process,"... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

30 Nov 2017
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Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

and his team—which included Kristy Cunningham—to get to the heart of what exactly had happened to the 62-year-old icon. The redesign is part of an initiative by McDonald’s corporate to modernize the customer experience, which began in the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

"Soul." "Spirit." A host of organizations - among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines - have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books about the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

and generosity and service. Our company was a mission-oriented company. We were focused on enabling access to finance to individuals across the world, so that they could live out their dreams and start businesses. Being that close into a place where giving is such an... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets

Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) has been leading the transformation of Nigeria's capital markets, improving their integrity and regulatory framework, since becoming director-general of the country's Security and Exchange Commission in 2010.... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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A Star in LA

SOHN: playing it safe in 2005. His star power is such that he’s been called “the Korean version of Alan Greenspan,” and indeed, when Sung Won Sohn (PMD 35, 1978) was named president and CEO of Hanmi Financial Corporation in Los Angeles,... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Sep 2004
News

Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)

any other bank in Grand Rapids. It was a niche bank with only one office and no tellers; instead, it had client service officers who would call customers by their name. The other unique thing about Grand Bank was corporate tithing. Ten... View Details