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  • May 2011 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

The Crisis at Tyco - A Director's Perspective

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
In 2002, Wendy Lane had been a member of the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO Dennis Kozlowski and other top executives were accused of fraud, which ultimately led to resignations, imprisonments, lawsuits, and... View Details
Keywords: Management Teams; Reputation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crisis Management; Accounting Audits; Problems and Challenges; Risk Management; Finance; Managerial Roles; Lawsuits and Litigation; Service Industry; United States
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  • November 2011
  • Article

Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation

By: Chen Lin, Yue Ma and Yuhai Xuan
This article examines the impact of the divergence between corporate insiders' control rights and cash-flow rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments estimation of an investment Euler equation.  Using a large sample of U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Social Enterprise; Reputation; Cash Flow; Annuities; Investment; Investment Funds; Financial Reporting; Accounting Audits; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 05 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

Summing Up Should CEO succession processes be certified? Respondents to this month's column agree that CEO succession is badly managed, perhaps accounting in large part for the fact that few "inside outsiders" ever make it into... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

conflicts of interest. For example, the change in the commission structure in 1974 created a whole new dynamic that influenced the role of research by investment banks. And the growing importance of consulting at public accounting firms... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Harmonizing Accounting Standards Really Harmonize Accounting?: Evidence from Non-U.S. Firms Adopting US GAAP Authors:Mark T.Bradshaw and Gregory S. Miller Periodical:Journal of Accounting, Auditing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2004
  • Article

Market Valuation and Merger Waves

By: Matthew Rhodes-Kropf and S. Viswanathan
Does valuation affect mergers? Data suggest that periods of stock merger activity are correlated with high market valuations. The naïve explanation that overvalued bidders wish to use stock is incomplete because targets should not be eager to accept stock. However, we... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Market Transactions; Value; Cash; Stocks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Bids and Bidding; Market Design; Stock Shares; Accounting Audits; Performance Evaluation
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  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

governance. According to Grace Hinchman, senior vice president for public affairs at Financial Executives International, chief financial officers need to become more responsive to a smarter audit committee, and shareholders have a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

board, their past professional experience, and their political contributions vary with the degree to which the accounting standards they propose are perceived as increasing accounting "relevance"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 1993 (Revised February 1995)
  • Case

Dendrite International

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Marie Bell
Dendrite International is a $23 million (1992 revenues) supplier of sales automation software to pharmaceuticals companies in Europe, Japan, and the United States. The firm's strategy has depended on being a full-service supplier to multinational firms. Impending... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Marketing Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Sales; Competitive Advantage; Information Technology Industry; Japan; Europe; United States
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  • 02 Feb 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

outcome from Enron will likely be the enrichment of the very professions that contributed to the mess. First, there will be the obvious windfall of extra legal fees from Enron and related cases. Then it is quite likely that the accounting... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Jul 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Financial and Accounting Standards Board, new New York Stock Exchange rulings regarding board composition and other matters, and a Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

even the appearance of impropriety if they are to recover America's trust.—Constance Bagley A number of states have gone even further than Delaware and passed "constituency statutes," which expressly give directors the right to take all stakeholders into... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

not Lehman Brothers? Ironically, Congress in 1991 passed a statute establishing specific procedures (including stating a rationale) to be followed before a bank could be rescued and mandating an after-the-fact audit by the Comptroller... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Read the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

ideas across academic communities. The Predictive Value of Accruals and Consequences for Market Anomalies Authors:Francois Brochet, Seunghan Nam, and Joshua Ronen Publication:The Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

résumé audit study, we examine racial minorities’ attempts to avoid anticipated discrimination in labor markets by concealing or downplaying racial cues in job applications, a practice known as "résumé whitening." Interviews with racial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 3

doubled effort within the competitive regime and increased effort by roughly half in the cooperative regime, while accounting for incentives. Our experimental approach and results indicate the importance of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

misreported due to a series of failures to check manual accounting processes. The situation has been escalated to Vodafone’s audit committee, which expects Colao and his team to act drastically. In the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety

factories in the US,” Toffel says. Timing is everything Previous research showed that the accuracy of third-party audits is affected by factors such as the inspector’s gender and work experience. Ibáñez and Toffel wanted to look at the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Service

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