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- 10 Oct 2020
- News
Sustainability Investors Shift Their Focus to Social Issues
- 22 Sep 2020
- News
Hedge Funds Reject Central Banker Criticism on Volatility
- January 1996
- Background Note
Standard Costs and Variance Analysis
In an introduction to standard costs and cost variances, discussion, formulae, and examples explore the idea of comparing actual costs to those that were expected. View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting
Rapier, Donella. "Standard Costs and Variance Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-121, January 1996.
- March 1996 (Revised February 2006)
- Case
Arborite
Describes the competitive position of Arborite, a Canadian manufacturer of high-pressure laminates (HPL) (a product sold under the Formica name in the United States). Arborite's market share has slipped, and a new general manager must evaluate whether a change in... View Details
McGahan, Anita M. "Arborite." Harvard Business School Case 796-146, March 1996. (Revised February 2006.)
- 07 Jun 2018
- News
Bill Ackman on what it means to be an activist investor
- 06 Apr 2020
- News
Rollout For U.S. Small Business Relief Leaves Fintechs Hanging
- Article
Measuring Audit Quality
By: Shivaram Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Xin Zheng
In this paper, we document 45 specific allegations related to audit deficiencies based on GAAS, as detailed in 141 AAERs and 153 securities class action lawsuits over the violation years 1978–2016. Next, we use these allegations to validate existing popular proxies of... View Details
Keywords: Audit Quality; Audit Deficiency; AAER; Securities Class Action Lawsuits; Enforcement; Accounting Audits; Quality; Measurement and Metrics
Rajgopal, Shivaram, Suraj Srinivasan, and Xin Zheng. "Measuring Audit Quality." Review of Accounting Studies 26, no. 2 (June 2021): 559–619.
- 06 Aug 2014
- News
Why Raising Venture Capital is Wrong for Your Company
- 27 Nov 2019
- News
Beware Footnote Mischief
- November 1990 (Revised June 1993)
- Background Note
Price-Quantity Determination
Examines the important economic considerations affecting a firm's price-quantity decision for a product. Begins with a discussion of the appropriate decision criterion. Next, it motivates the concept of a demand curve for a product and defines demand elasticity.... View Details
Dhebar, Anirudh S. "Price-Quantity Determination." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-093, November 1990. (Revised June 1993.)
- September 2015
- Teaching Note
Unidentified Industries: Australia 2014
Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in the firm's financial statements. In this exercise, students are given balance sheet data in percentage form (common-size balance sheets) and other selected financial ratios for a set of... View Details
- 15 Aug 2014
- News
Getting a handle on inversion
- 13 Jan 2022
- News
Smart Judgment Will Outweigh Dumb Luck in the Venture Capital World
- 02 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
- 13 Apr 2015
- News
Why Americans have chosen to pay income tax
- May 2019 (Revised June 2019)
- Background Note
Responsibilities in the Supply Chain
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Companies are increasingly called upon to take responsibility for what occurs in their supply chains. One particular area of debate is a company’s responsibility for working conditions in supplier factories. This note provides a framework for managers to grapple with... View Details
Keywords: Supply Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Working Conditions; Safety; Corporate Accountability
Hsieh, Nien-hê. "Responsibilities in the Supply Chain." Harvard Business School Background Note 319-114, May 2019. (Revised June 2019.)