Accounting Standards - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

the fact that the company was short of cash as well as profits. Yet Enron's board failed to detect and prevent violations of accounting principles and rules. In the third week of October 2001, Arthur Andersen, Enron's highly compromised... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

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Access Resumes

2026 Alumni Available year-round. How to Access Resumes Create a no-cost account in the HBS recruiting platform 12twenty Select "Resume Books" on the left Click on the resume book you would like to view Select the "Resumes" tab, then... View Details

08 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate and Integrated Reporting: A Functional Perspective

Keywords: by Robert Eccles & George Serafeim

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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

banks and purchasing toxic assets and equity. In 2009, General Motors and the Chrysler Corporation declared bankruptcy. In March of that year, the Dow Jones plummeted its lowest level of 6,594, a decline of more than 50 percent since 2007, and the unemployment rate hit... View Details

19 Jan 2021
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2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Marc Duranteau (MBA 2019)

skills prove essential when I try to sketch new processes and new ways of working in my current role because I have to take into account every idea, opinion, and need on subjects in which I have little knowledge or experience. Are you... View Details

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Campus & Community | About

Values At Harvard Business School we believe that leadership and values are inseparable. The teaching of ethics here is explicit, not implicit, and our community values of mutual respect, honesty and integrity, and personal accountability... View Details

13 Jan 2023
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Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

high tax costs when repatriating earnings. Estimates indicate that a one standard deviation increase in the tax burden from repatriating foreign income is associated with a 7.9% increase in the ratio of cash to net assets. In addition,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Community Values | About

Community Values At Harvard Business School we believe that leadership and values are inseparable. The teaching of ethics here is explicit, not implicit, and our community values of mutual respect, honesty and integrity, and personal View Details

31 Jan 2022
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Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

Customers demand more value and innovation than ever before, but they’re not always willing to pay more for that product or service. In fact, thanks to social media, dissatisfied customers can amplify their opinions about a company’s long support wait times or hold... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

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Asia Pacific - Global

removing Danone’s CEO in March 2021, Engine No. 1 winning three board seats at ExxonMobil in May 2021. May 2025 Case Initial Financial Statements at Blank Corporation: Bridging Content and Commerce By: Jung Koo Kang , Panje Jayden Kim and David Allen This View Details

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Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

health care agenda. Health care invests billions of dollars in quality measurement programs and complex cost accounting systems yet these systems currently fail to collect outcomes that matter to patients and the costs to acheive them.... View Details

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Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

unified financial structure which ideally is a unified profit and loss statement IPUs routinely measure outcomes, costs, care processes, and patient experience using a common platform, and accept joint accountability for results. The team... View Details

27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

standards represent a political-economic equilibrium, why is that equilibrium for some countries shifting over time in favor of IFRS? We develop and test the hypothesis that network effects from the extant worldwide adoption of IFRS... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Andrei Shleifer SEP 2021 The financial crisis of 2007–2008 has revived academic interest in price bubbles. The authors introduce diagnostic expectations into a standard setting of price formation in which investors learn about the... View Details

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By: Matthew C. Weinzierl

My academic research centers on uncovering and closing gaps between the theory and reality of tax policy. My main contribution has been to identify and address a mismatch between the goals for taxation typically assumed in theory and the goals the public and... View Details

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Ways to Give Today - Alumni

intended gift purpose. Receiving Bank: Bank of America, 100 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110 Beneficiary Legal Account: President & Fellows of Harvard College, ADS Account Account #: 9429263621 ACH Routing... View Details

30 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

Keywords: by Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio; Banking

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