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Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report
It’s good to bring the core financial skills but boards these days are also looking for expertise on how to navigate economic uncertainty, capital allocation, cybersecurity, digital transformation and AI, and all things talent and human... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online
Identifying Strategic Drivers of Performance Explain the relationship between strategy and financial reporting and analyze how accounting captures an organization's strategic decisions. Highlights The Role... View Details
- 2003
- Casebook
Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements: Text and Cases
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Paul M. Healy and Victor L. Bernard
Palepu, Krishna G., Paul M. Healy, and Victor L. Bernard. Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements: Text and Cases. 3rd ed. Mason, OH: Thomson South-Western, 2003.
- 2010
- Report
State of the Region Report 2010: The Top of Europe Recovering—Regional Lessons from a Global Crisis
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2010 State of the Region Report, the seventh in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, takes the Region's economic temperature in the first year after the full onslaught of the global crisis. The focus of... View Details
- May 2023
- Article
Do Internal Control Weaknesses Affect Firms' Demand for Financial Skills? Evidence from U.S. Job Postings
By: Janet Gao, Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli and Joseph H. Schroeder
Ineffective internal controls over financial reporting often relates to a lack of qualified personnel with sufficient accounting and technical expertise. In this study, we examine whether firms respond to internal control failures by increasing their demand for... View Details
Keywords: Internal Controls; Labor Demand; Accounting; Financial Reporting; Experience and Expertise; Recruitment; Competency and Skills; Corporate Finance
Gao, Janet, Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli, and Joseph H. Schroeder. "Do Internal Control Weaknesses Affect Firms' Demand for Financial Skills? Evidence from U.S. Job Postings." Accounting Review 98, no. 3 (May 2023): 203–228.
- September 1989 (Revised December 1989)
- Background Note
Note on the Credit Bureau Industry and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and H. Jeff Smith
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and H. Jeff Smith. "Note on the Credit Bureau Industry and the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)." Harvard Business School Background Note 190-044, September 1989. (Revised December 1989.)
- 08 Jul 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Surviving the Global Financial Crisis: Foreign Direct Investment and Establishment Performance
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie Chen
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Maggie Sanchez (MBA 1990) on Purpose-Driven Board Leadership - Blog: RGE Report
a board’s responsibility. “The core responsibilities of a board include strategic and financial oversight, governance, CEO selection and oversight, succession planning, and representing shareholders’ interests,” she says. “Even if you... View Details
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Corporate Reports Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
collections in the world, and includes annual reports for Lehman Brothers for the period 1929-1979, with some gaps, and for 1994 through 1999. Corporate reports are among the most valuable documents in... View Details
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- Article
Variable Leases Under ASC 842: Evidence on Properties and Consequences
The new lease standard (ASC 842) allows firms to keep variable leases off-balance-sheet, in part based on the assumption that future expenses are difficult to estimate reliably. We show that variable-lease expenses are both prevalent and substantial, exhibiting... View Details
Heese, Jonas, Albert Shin, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Variable Leases Under ASC 842: Evidence on Properties and Consequences." Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming).
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Overview
Charles C.Y. Wang is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School in the Accounting and Management Unit and is currently course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum; he is also a coordinator of the... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Statement of Activity & Cash Flows
2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Statement of Activity & Cash Flows
2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive Financials 5 Year Summary From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of... View Details
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Cash-for-Information Whistleblower Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
Cash-for-information whistleblower programs have gained momentum as a regulatory tool to enforce corporate misconduct. Yet, little is known about how financial incentives affect whistleblowers’ decisions to report potential misconduct to authorities. Similarly, there... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Whistleblowers; Financial Incentives; Ethics; Governance Compliance; Lawsuits and Litigation
Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos. "Cash-for-Information Whistleblower Programs: Effects on Whistleblowing and Consequences for Whistleblowers." Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance (June 10, 2021).
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Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Course Number 1306 Associate Professor Joseph Pacelli Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Project Assistant Professor Yuan Zou Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Statement of Activity & Cash Flows
2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash... View Details
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Overview
By: Suraj Srinivasan
Professor Srinivasan serves as the Course Head for the required MBA course Financial Reporting and Control. He has previously taught the second year MBA elective Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements and teaches the executive education version... View Details
- March 2014
- Article
Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations
By: Nemit O. Shroff, Rodrigo S. Verdi and Gwen Yu
This paper examines how the external information environment in which foreign subsidiaries operate affects the investment decisions of multinational corporations (MNCs). We hypothesize and find that the investment decisions of foreign subsidiaries in country-industries... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Multinational Firms; Cross-border Frictions; Agency Frictions; Transparency; Financial Reporting Quality; Information Quality; Information; Multinational Firms and Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment
Shroff, Nemit O., Rodrigo S. Verdi, and Gwen Yu. "Information Environment and the Investment Decisions of Multinational Corporations." Accounting Review 89, no. 2 (March 2014): 759–790.
- February 2013
- Case
Diamond Foods, Inc.
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Tim Gray
The Diamonds Foods, Inc. case describes the major accounting blow up at the company in late 2011 that was triggered by a report by Off Wall Street, a prominent short selling research firm. Diamond Foods, a high flying growth company in 2011, grew from a walnut farmers'... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Restatements; Accounting Scandal; Accounting; Financial Analysis; Financial Statement Analysis; Short Selling; Revenue Recognition; Board Of Directors; Audit Committees; Auditing; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Agribusiness; Accrual Accounting; Earnings Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Revenue; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; California; Cambridge
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Tim Gray. "Diamond Foods, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 113-055, February 2013.
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Get in Line: Chapter 11 Restructuring in Crowded Bankruptcy Courts
This paper tests whether Chapter 11 restructuring outcomes are affected by time constraints in busy bankruptcy courts. On average, total bankruptcy filings rise by 32% during economic recessions, leaving bankruptcy judges with far less time per case exactly when... View Details