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Harvard Business School
on the boards of the National Urban League and Northern Virginia Urban League. He also served on the boards of five Fortune 500 firms. Brittain leant his expertise to the Yale Corporation Audit Committee and the Dean's Board of Advisors... View Details
- November 2005 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004
By: John R. Wells, Elizabeth A. Raabe and Gabriel Ellsworth
From a single, modest club in 1962, Bally Total Fitness had grown to become—in management’s words—the “largest and only nationwide commercial operator of fitness centers” in the United States in 2004. Bally had faced its share of challenges, but the last couple of... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Fitness; Gyms; Health Clubs; Chain; Securities And Exchange Commission; Paul Toback; Weight Loss; Exercise; Contracts; Personal Training; Retention; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Finance; Advertising; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Customers; Customer Satisfaction; Public Equity; Financing and Loans; Revenue; Revenue Recognition; Geographic Scope; Multinational Firms and Management; Health; Nutrition; Business History; Lawsuits and Litigation; Management; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Operations; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Segmentation; Trends; Cost Management; Profit; Growth and Development; Leadership Style; Five Forces Framework; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Health Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
Wells, John R., Elizabeth A. Raabe, and Gabriel Ellsworth. "Bally Total Fitness (A): The Rise, 1962–2004." Harvard Business School Case 706-450, November 2005. (Revised December 2016.)
- 1994
- Article
An Analysis of Auditor Liability Rules
By: V.G. Narayanan
Keywords: Accounting Audits
Narayanan, V.G. "An Analysis of Auditor Liability Rules." Special Issue on Accounting, Financial Disclosures, and the Law. Journal of Accounting Research 32 (1994).
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
What Have You Been Up To Lately?
- April 1995
- Background Note
Independent Auditor's Report
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Accounting Audits
Hawkins, David F. "Independent Auditor's Report." Harvard Business School Background Note 195-184, April 1995.
- summer 1997
- Article
The Impossibility of Auditor Independence
By: M. H. Bazerman, K. Morgan and G. F. Loewenstein
Keywords: Accounting Audits
Bazerman, M. H., K. Morgan, and G. F. Loewenstein. "The Impossibility of Auditor Independence." MIT Sloan Management Review 38, no. 4 (summer 1997).
- May 1985
- Background Note
Auditor's Opinion
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Accounting Audits
Hawkins, David F. "Auditor's Opinion." Harvard Business School Background Note 185-099, May 1985.
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
School.How do you set up an IT governance committee? A company that decides it needs board-level IT oversight must do three things: Select the appropriate members and the chairman, determine the group's relationship to the audit... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
function, however, it’s unclear what the brands should be doing with the information. “There’s an ongoing debate as to whether these audits are simply snapshots to figure out the facts on the ground so multinationals can vote with their... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 1 Apr 1997
- Conference Presentation
Comments on 'The Commission on Auditors' Responsibilites: Report of Tentative Conclusions
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Accounting Audits
- 1982
- Contribution
Research in Action: The Impossibilty of Auditor Independence
By: M. H. Bazerman
Keywords: Accounting Audits
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Hawes Hall Dedicated
Rod Hawes and Dean Clark had time to chat before the dedication ceremony. Photo: Richard Chase Two of the Hawes grandchildren join the festivities in the Dean's House garden. Photo: Richard Chase A behind-the-scenes tour of Hawes Hall highlighted building's powerful... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
Chairman, Social Investment Task force, Bridges Community Ventures, & The Portland Trust Cofounder & Former Chairman, Apax Partners L.P. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Oxford University, 1967 M.A., Philosophy, Politics, and Economics... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
Defining Moments by Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr. (Harvard Business School Press) How should you respond if you are offered an opportunity at work solely because of your race or gender? What should you do if a single parent on your staff is falling behind in his or her... View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”
through," he said, noting that the drive for investment banking revenues on Wall Street led to conflicts of interest between those sectors. "Self-governing, particularly in the auditing process, was a disaster." Out of... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Class of 1997 Graduates with Distinction
Class of '99 Profile Number of applicants 7,467 Total size of class 880 September cohort 560 January cohort 320 Median age 26 Women 30% Minorities 17% International 26% Married 20% Have children 4% Undergraduate Majors Engineering and Natural Sciences 29%... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a working paper, "Environmental... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards
By: Abigail Allen, Karthik Ramanna and Sugata Roychowdhury
We examine how Big N auditors' changing incentives impact their comment-letter lobbying on U.S. GAAP over the first thirty-four years of the FASB (1973–2006). We examine the influence of auditors' lobbying incentives arising from three basic factors: managing expected... View Details
Allen, Abigail, Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury. "Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-055, December 2014. (Winner of the American Accounting Association Western Conference Best Paper Award.)
Henry Ford II
When Ford took over Ford Motor in 1945, the company was losing $9.5 million per month. Ford implemented an audit system for the company, while automating company plants. As a result of Ford’s leadership, the Ford Motor Company boasted net... View Details
Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
Arthur E. Andersen
Andersen built a small auditing firm into one of the largest accounting consultancy operations in the world. Andersen capitalized on the passage of federal income tax laws in the early decades of the twentieth century to build his... View Details
Keywords: Services