Accounting Discrepency - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan

flourished as did the nation’s social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

the period from 1996 to 2005 to test the hypothesized relationships. How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power and Timing in Redundant Communication Authors:P.M. Leonardi, T.B. Neeley, and E.M. Gerber... View Details

29 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

of the “benevolent dictator.” Colao is acutely aware that his response to the accounting discrepancies will be a referendum on his leadership for over 120,000 employees worldwide. If he doesn’t make the... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 14, 2009

that scale recalibration cannot account for discrepant QoL ratings between patients and nonpatients. More generally, this study presents a new approach for measuring well-being that is not subject to the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and accounting irregularities can go unnoticed. However, when revenue and cash flow decline,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 21, 2009

sentiment. One explanation for this discrepancy is that consumers are motivated to use moral disengagement strategies to reduce cognitive dissonance when their desire for a product conflicts with their moral standards. In two studies we... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

led to economic development and were therefore emulated in other nations at the time. The idea for it probably came from my love of old books, which allowed me to see quite starkly the discrepancy between past and present fame in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

results suggest for-profit insurers are likelier than not-for-profit insurers to exercise market power when they possess it. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55635 forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

discern good ideas from poor ones. We also find that scripts from less-experienced writers are more likely to be listed and to rank higher if listed. Yet in terms of release probability, even though being listed has a large and positive effect on less-experienced... View Details