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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
corporate auditing and financial reporting. "Integrity and high ethical standards are an essential part of the process." Reforms such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act are making a difference, continues Franklin.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
What would this golden age look like? Imagine if small businesses had access to AI-enabled insights—picture a dashboard informed by a business’s bank accounts, payment systems, taxes, and accounting software. The business owner could see... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
of economic development,” recalls Barry of his post-graduation years. He wanted to understand why people in some regions do well economically and improve their standard of living while others do not, and was also interested in exploring... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
income and unrestricted current-use gifts accounted for 24 percent of total revenue, MBA tuition and fees 18 percent, and housing rentals 3 percent. The School ended the year with 219 full-time faculty and 1,146 full-time administrative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
impacts the financial crisis. “I’m intrigued,” said Lawrence. “You may not call it a structural element, but one can think of values and moral standards as an integrative device that you enforce throughout... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
Dean. "If you look at the billions of people lifted out of poverty, the standard of living we have created, the kinds of jobs we've created it all came from the enormous force for good that is business." This powerful idea paved the way... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
measurable impact on a business’s bottom line. For Luca, who has authored several studies on the topic—and is himself an occasional Yelp critic—online reviews are “one of the most powerful information sources that has emerged in decades, if you interpret them... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details
- 29 Jul 2024
- News
Leading the Way
college or trade school, including sorting out financial aid, and offer regular support and encouragement to get students to graduation and beyond. After Trejo spent a decade on Wall Street as an investment banker with Bank of America,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
tech bubble burst in 2001. Accounting scandals destroyed Enron in 2001 and WorldCom in 2002. And the current global financial crisis, the worst since the Great Depression, has yet to run its course. It’s no... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Doriot’s ARD holding a significant stake, the company had some 63 European financial institutions and banks as shareholders. Management included a stellar group of French business luminaries. The EED investment port-folio grew over time,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
professor Quinn Mills dissects the other half of the artificially supported 1990s bull market in Wheel, Deal, and Steal: Deceptive Accounting, Deceitful CEOs, and Ineffective Reforms. This time around, he focuses on large corporations that fattened stock prices through... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
On Track
HATCHETT: Calm amid market turmoil. Perhaps it’s fitting that in this Olympic year, Morgan Stanley’s Kimberley Hatchett (MBA ’91) was named one of the “Top 100 Women Financial Advisers” by Barron’s (June 9, 2008). Of that group, Hatchett... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
the program. A PRIMO fellow last summer, Castro, a psychology major at Harvard College, was born in Dallas and raised in Central Mexico. Paired with Assistant Professor Susanna Gallani, a member of the Accounting and Management Unit at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
University President A. Lawrence Lowell, who steered Doriot to HBS, a more suitable place for a young man who aspired to run a factory. Even though he had no friends or family in the United States, little money (the war left his father View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details