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    John F. Batter

    John Batter is a retired Litigation Partner in the Boston Office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP where his practice focussed on on the defense of public and private companies and their directors and management against breach of fiduciary duty claims and... View Details

    • November 2003 (Revised September 2021)
    • Case

    Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Ingrid Vargas
    Taught in Evolution of Global Business. Globalization and corporate fraud are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish Match in the interwar years. Between 1913 and 1932, Ivar Kreuger, known as the "Swedish Match King," built a small,... View Details
    Keywords: History; International Finance; Globalized Firms and Management; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Monopoly; Business and Government Relations; Sweden
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    • November 2017 (Revised August 2018)
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    Fair Value Accounting at Noble Group (A)

    By: Siko Sikochi, Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
    Noble Group was a large commodities trader based in Hong Kong and listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange. In 2012, Noble shifted its business strategy towards an asset-light model. Under this model, Noble did not own mines or farms to produce commodities but built... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Policy; Goods and Commodities; Contracts; Valuation
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    By: Charlotte L. Robertson
    Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:... View Details
    • 23 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 23, 2008

      Working PapersSecuring Online Advertising: Rustlers and Sheriffs in the New Wild West Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract Read the news of recent computer security guffaws, and it's striking how many problems stem from online... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Shikhar Ghosh

      Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details

        Suraj Srinivasan

        Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; financial services
        • February 2016
        • Case

        Banking and Politics in Antebellum New York

        By: David Moss and Colin Donovan
        After a long period of solid Democratic control, Whigs secured a majority of seats in the New York State Assembly in 1837, the same year that a major financial panic had crippled the banking system and shaken public confidence in the state's governance. The next year,... View Details
        Keywords: Governance; Central Banking; Ethics; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; History; New York (state, US)
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        • 28 Jul 2015
        • First Look

        First Look: July 28, 2015

        Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49412 Forthcoming Management Science Fake It Till You Make It: Reputation, Competition, and Yelp Review Fraud By: Luca, Michael, and Georgios Zervas Abstract—Consumer... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 28 May 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: May 28

        decide whether now is the time to sell his firm's investment in Tri-Northern Distribution. Brazos, a middle-market leveraged buyout group, created the company two years earlier through the acquisition of two electronic security... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 10 Dec 2021
        • Research & Ideas

        Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

        enough to encourage an employee to report it. At the same time, we know that thousands of workers still die or get injured due to workplace safety violations. But in securities fraud or tax fraud, where the... View Details
        Keywords: by April White
        • 24 Oct 2016
        • Research & Ideas

        Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

        scheme, I think that’s giving him too much credit as an individual financier, or even as a sinister deviant. He couldn’t have planned such a long-running and extraordinarily devastating fraud in advance even if he tried.” A timeline of... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
        • 13 Nov 2012
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        First Look: November 13

        multi-currency capital structure with both senior, secured bank loans and junior bonds. PCP has to decide whether to push for bankruptcy in a European court, or to push for out of court renegotiations. The case is a tool for studying the... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 07 Apr 2023
        • Research & Ideas

        When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

        and Exchange Commission. The SEC has been slow to issue the regulatory clarification requested by crypto companies, but has charged more than a dozen influencers with violating US securities law and recently warned investors about... View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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        Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

        Rajgopal ( Journal of Law & Economics , May 2020) was recognized as one of the 10 Best Corporate and Securities Articles of 2021 by the Corporate Practice Commentator . 2020 Aiyesha Dey : Winner of the Best Discussant Award at the 2020... View Details
        • 17 Apr 2022
        • Book

        How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

        defrauding investors. A sure sign of the ethical lapse at Theranos was that “people started asking questions, and they got fired,” Nelson says. Wells Fargo’s 2016 account fraud scandal, in which bank representatives were pressured into... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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        Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

        Appex provided centralized services that enabled independent mobile carriers to operate as a single seamless network. Appex’s services included call forwarding across carriers, fraud prevention services, billing and customer service.... View Details
        • 06 Oct 2003
        • Research & Ideas

        The Problem with Hedge Funds

        There is thus no justification for the enormous growth of the hedge funds. It follows that the hedge fund mania is simply the latest of the securities industry's new, new things" for investors—another sales gimmick. Regulating Hedge... View Details
        Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
        • 21 Feb 2019
        • Research & Ideas

        Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)

        ballot fraud have erupted and intense focus invested in possible measures to ensure election integrity. States have increasingly enacted voter ID laws as one such deterrent. But we also know that laws aimed at View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 28 May 2019
        • Research & Ideas

        Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

        dismissals have increased, and settlements in recent years have declined,” conclude the authors of a new research paper. “Our study asks why.” The number of lawsuits specifically about Rule 10b-5, the antifraud regulation created under the View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting