Financial Reporting Quality - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Mar 2019
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Helping Veterans Build Careers

program,” he says, “every $516 places a vet in a job.” Goldenberg’s path to the Endowment began in 2008 when he was working at the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. As the financial crisis hit that year, he witnessed sailors who were... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

07 Sep 2021
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Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

Afya Pamoja cofounders Patrick Anyanga, Robert Smith, Dr. Helga Mutasingwa, and Simon DeBere at the company’s office in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. In Tanzania, women are 100 times more likely to die from pregnancy-related complications than women in high income... View Details

Keywords: April White

05 Aug 2014
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A Diversified Portfolio

extensive strategic and financial experience included consulting at McKinsey, investment banking at Salomon Brothers, and leading business development at several Internet and media companies. The pair started investigating and found a lot... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Mar 2004
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Ron Shaich’s Café Society

Today, the financial analysts are calling this phenomena “quick casual,” but we think of it as specialty food. How did you make the transition out of Au Bon Pain? It wasn’t easy, in part because I really loved Au Bon Pain. In many ways it... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Jan 2005
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Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964

of disobedience. "To lower my costs while improving the price and quality of my products, I needed economies of scale," he explains. "Ignoring a government regulation, I increased my volume by more than the permitted 25 percent of my... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

Oversight Panel’s Special Report on Regulatory Reform at cop.senate.gov/. Read David Moss’s working paper, “An Ounce of Prevention: The Power of Public Risk Management in Stabilizing the Financial System,”... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Sep 2006
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Teamwork Testament

Not only have Marion Sandler (HRPBA ’53) and her husband, Herb Sandler, been married for more than forty years, they’ve worked together nearly that long as business partners. They grew their company, Oakland-based Golden West Financial... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Managing the Business of Life

subsidiary Entertainment Asylum, an entertainment-related content provider on the Internet. Despite the hefty title, she still spends quality time with her children in the evenings and on weekends. "I think it's actually healthy to have... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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A Student Plan Goes to Washington

Not all financial reform proposals under consideration in Washington sprang from federal agencies and congressional committees. One emerged from HBS. Last spring, students in Professor Rakesh Khurana’s elective corporate governance class... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business

investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2000
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Vivek Ranadivé

stint at Ford Motor Company and with the network equipment provider Linkabit, he decided to enroll at HBS. "I wanted to get the best education, and I felt that Harvard was the best business school," Ranadivé states, citing the case method and the View Details

01 Dec 2003
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Flex Time

sophisticated communication systems that include detailed weekly reports from UCC’s sales force and senior managers. As long as her days may be — talking on the phone with customers, following up on issues raised during a weekly... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

09 May 2013
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Road Trip

share what we learn with a larger, supportive community of fellow entrepreneurs, professors, venture capitalists, and anyone else committed to entrepreneurship. We'd like this trip to be a growth engine for entrepreneurial practice generally." The MBAxAmerica students... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

01 Apr 2002
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Pamela Thomas Graham

giving advice and not being in the position to actually execute it." Today, as president and CEO of CNBC, the financial news network viewed in almost 200 million households worldwide, the Detroit native's job is all about execution. Her... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Apr 2001
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Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

can be found at http://www.hbs.edu/mba/student-life/activities-government-and-clubs/Pages/default.aspx. Cyberposium 2001 Focuses on Quality The seventh annual Cyberposium high-technology conference, held on campus in early February,... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

28 Mar 2018
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Fueling the Future

they’d ask, ‘Who are you?’ I’d reply, ‘I’m your Schlumberger engineer.’ They’d say, ‘No, you’re not. Send a guy out.’” This was in 1994, and after explaining a replacement would not be coming, Kovatch would get to work. By the end of the job, seeing the View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2016
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The Big Business of Little Loans

the US Small Business Administration and now on the faculty at HBS. The situation worsened during the 2008 financial crisis, and lending to the sector has never really recovered. Armed with proprietary algorithms and can-do attitudes,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

01 Dec 2002
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HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power

no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

illegal-drug addictions totaled an estimated $700 billion in direct and indirect costs, according to a 2015 report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. DynamiCare developed an app that provides View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2018
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An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

full-time employees, the new factory will add another 50 people per shift, doing everything from laser-cutting steel frames to inspection, painting, general assembly, and quality testing. The company worked with contract assembly to build... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

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