Financialization Of Accounting - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

Lucille Meyer (SEP '99) and her boss, South African President Thabo M. Mbeki, know they have a tough act to follow. While Mbeki's predecessor, the legendary Nelson Mandela, basked in the adulation of a country savoring newly won freedoms... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

14 Dec 2017
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Making Movies Is a Class Act

know Christie’s daughter and grandson, and they later asked me to join the board of Agatha Christie Limited,” explains Wood. Now the chief operating officer for the Council for Economic Education, a nonprofit focused on View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Feb 1997
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Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)

upheaval - financial collapse, peasant uprisings, and political violence. What's going on? Some people see the repression in Mexico's political system and call the system authoritarian. Others see its freedoms and label it an emerging... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business

to consumers and thereby fuel demand for their cars. Entering a complementary business requires that companies do their accounting a little differently. You cannot measure the profitability of the two... View Details

17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)

all the people in our [the team’s] lives as well as for the growing number of people supporting us. At the very least, we succeeded in that! Personally, that is an invaluable reward in itself. “Challenges have included fundraising for a... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

01 Jun 2015
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The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)

“You can’t just give orders in business.” —Unlearning some of the lessons of the military Gene Markowski (MBA 1973) served as an Army Huey helicopter pilot in Vietnam and received the Distinguished Flying... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

19 Aug 2013
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Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

environmental value simultaneously through its activities," Keshavjee explains. "It is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling up its activities." HCA, in partnership with a number of local NGOs and... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Apr 2000
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Marketing Muscle

chairman of Interactive Investor International (iii), Coutu said she relishes the opportunity to do things a little differently. Her Internet financial services company, for example, is located in a... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)

need to deal with the fact that a management perspective driven primarily by financial concerns may jeopardize patient care. This may become an area of professional interest for me." The brief pause for... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Oct 2000
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Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance

improvement in the areas of communication with consumers, operational efficiency, and product availability, as well as renovation and innovation throughout the company. In addition to his financial duties,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1998
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Answering the Call

The Reverend Robert Brooks's small, crowded office at Christ Episcopal Church in Kent, Ohio, is a long way from the executive suite that he occupied for nineteen years at the Philadelphia investment firm of Cooke & Bieler. He has moved a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

still do - the financial resources to write new code. Will the worldwide economic downturn complicate matters? Good question. For companies at the top of their game and well into the process, the Y2K problem... View Details

13 Nov 2020
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Insatiably Curious

source of support for me,” she says, it is impossible to place a dollar value on the connections to her classmates, the alumni she’s gotten to know since graduating, and the HBS faculty. “Jan Rivkin instilled a lifelong love View Details

01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson

life.” Watson achieved financial independence with the sale of his first company in 1988. “It was a milestone,” he admits, “but I found myself asking, ‘So what?'” The question led Watson, who is divorced and... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Moir Donelson

Donelson noted that his mother lost her job, and his father was forced to take on a third job. Of his few friends who attended college, several came home because their financial aid was cut. Donelson relates... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 1996
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"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs

comprehensive program designed to ensure a basic level of competency throughout the cohort. By all accounts from the students, faculty members, and staff involved in the initial Foundations module, the... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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The Accidental Pioneers

other schools accepted only men. "One of the men used a mild bit of profanity, then looked at me and said, 'Oh, I'm sorry.' The professor very wisely said, 'Mrs. Wilkinson has worked at IBM. She's heard all... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia

26 Aug 2020
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What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic

power structures and the fact that our economic system doesn't account for the negative externalities of pollution, injustice, etc. And that's why I think it's even more important to emphasize the... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Going Public: Herman I. Safin

Unlike the culture-shocked Russian who defected to America in the movie Moscow on the Hudson, Lithuanian-born Herman Safin arrived at HBS already familiar with the ways of the West. Beginning with his high-school years in the former... View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

outside the banking system. BancoSol's success has spawned competitors in both the nonprofit and formal financial sectors that are eager to serve microentrepreneurs. Every Bolivian political party now includes microenterprise as part... View Details

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