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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

the financial health and lifecycle stage of a business 8.5 hrs Module 6 Analyzing Financial Statements Evaluate company performance using profitability, efficiency, leverage, and View Details

24 Mar 2021
News

Outsider-Insider Named CEO of Amazon Web Services

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn On March 23, recently appointed Amazon CEO Andy Jassy (MBA 1997) named Adam Selipsky (MBA 1993) head of Amazon Web Services (AWS), a $50 billion business that contributes more than half of Amazon’s... View Details

Keywords: Amazon; online retail; leadership; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

2021
Working Paper

Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry

By: DG Park, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh

We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the interactive media and services industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact... View Details

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June 2016 (Revised May 2017)
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FANUC Corporation: Reassessing the Firm's Governance and Financial Policies

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno

In February 2015, Daniel Loeb (a U.S.–based activist investor) announced his firm had a large investment in FANUC Corporation, a leading producer of industrial robots and software for machine tools. Loeb was demanding that the Japanese firm change its financial and... View Details

Keywords: Hedge Funds; Economic Policy; Investments; Government Policy; Deregulation; Financial Management; Valuation; Investment Funds; Policy; Corporate Governance; Macroeconomics; Investment Activism; Change Management; Financial Strategy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Japan; United States

May 2012 (Revised July 2012)
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Credit Unions: The Future of the Cooperative Financial Institution

By: Robert C. Pozen and Grace Hou

Credit unions are a specialized type of depository institution with a cooperative, non-profit structure and a federal tax exemption. They originated as small, cooperative institutions with an emphasis on uncollateralized consumer lending to the unbanked... View Details

Keywords: Banking; Credit Unions; Banks and Banking

22 Jan 2016
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Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Mark Baker & Andrew Speen; Financial Services

2009
Working Paper

Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?

By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten

In a sample of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more powerful countries being... View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Network Effects; Standards; Adoption

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

proposals in the context of safeguarding financial stability while simultaneously preserving the monetary services that money market funds provide savers. See Samuel’s other... View Details

01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Clubs Click with New Web Services

The early reviews are in: It’s two thumbs way up for the new Web site building service now available to the School’s 107 alumni clubs and associations. Several features receive special praise from clubs that have already launched the new... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; alumni groups; website; Educational Services; Educational Services

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

kept getting longer, and I finally realized I might be able to do a service by putting all this information into one package. Silverthorne: Is the academic job market for accounting PhDs a difficult field to break into? Rouen: Every year,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

10 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Veterans in the MBA Program: Profiles of Service

the classroom. Here’s a look at three MBA student veterans. Julie Guzman (MBA 2022) Photo courtesy Julie Guzman On an early morning run in 2010, Julie Guzman noticed that the only other people active on her undergraduate campus were ROTC... View Details

May 2014
Case

Goldman Sachs: Anchoring Standards After the Financial Crisis

By: Rajiv Lal and Lisa Mazzanti

Goldman Sachs, a longtime venerable financial institution headquartered in New York City, had a partnership culture that was known to value its clients. But when the financial crisis hit in 2008 and Goldman Sachs emerged relatively unscathed, its public image took a... View Details

Keywords: Brand Management; Public Image; Corporate Accountability; Reputation; Standards; Financial Crisis; Brands and Branding; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

Walt Disney’s time in Paris during the waning days of World War I helped shape him into a visionary entrepreneur who would ultimately build a beloved international brand. Dwight Eisenhower and Robert McNamara discovered the importance of humility and how to motivate... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

May 2013
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Transport Corporation of India (C): Dealing with Shortcomings in Service Quality

By: V.G. Narayanan and Saloni Chaturvedi

Transport Corporation of India was a logistics company that provided multi-modal transport solutions to its customers. Set up in 1958, TCI had grown from a 'one man, one truck, one office' set-up to a company with revenues of $400 million in half a century. TCI's... View Details

Keywords: Transportation; Transportation Industry; India