Introduction To Financial Accounting - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Market Reaction to Mandatory Nonfinancial Disclosure

Keywords: by Jyothika Grewal, Edward J. Riedl & George Serafeim

01 Sep 2005
News

Clark Bids Farewell to HBS

ought to be held accountable for turning out the kinds of leaders the world needs, people who bring both character and competence to their work. Do our alumni make the world... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2011 (Revised December 2019)
Case

Wealth Management Crisis at UBS (A)

By: Paul M. Healy

The case describes the challenges that UBS faced as a result of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation for tax fraud, that claimed that UBS had helped some 52,000 U.S. residents hide billions of dollars in untaxed assets in secret Swiss accounts between... View Details

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Educators

Purchase

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

be actually brought home to the investor." Most of our social contracts are built on the assumption that individual accountability influences human behavior. Indeed, the recent move by the SEC View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

competitors. He also contends that downturns can provide a little flexibility because the pressure to deliver short-term financial results is lessened. When all companies are reporting poor results, acting... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

contracts, and accounting and finance. The span of accountability. The second span refers to the range of trade-offs affecting the measures used to evaluate a manager's... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

audit firms affects the nature of accounting regulation, Ramanna says. Future research, the authors hope, will continue to probe the changing audit oligopoly and its consequences amid increasing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

27 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

many business leaders confused. In van Bever’s Leadership and Corporate Accountability course, discussions are heated. “This is when right meets right,” van Bever says. “But we talk to students about how a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories

01 Dec 2012
News

Taking Time to Make Time

hours. How does that hurt productivity? The most obvious answer is that there is a negative financial incentive to solving problems quickly and efficiently. Hourly billing is a deeply ingrained model of... View Details

Keywords: Time management

04 Feb 2020
News

How we know that Tesla is a bubble that is going to pop

01 Apr 1999
News

An Eye to the East

Europe and the United States, he said, "they have already reached a threshold in customer orientation, so you have to do different things to succeed." That's not the case yet in Asia, he pointed out, as... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

accountable to senior management for employing the process regularly, and second, rewarding those who do with recognition and promotion. That is exactly what Southwest Airlines and Johnson & Johnson have... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

06 Oct 2015
Blog Post

Henry McGee: From HBO to HBS

1995. In 2013, Henry McGee returned to HBS in the role of Senior Lecturer. A member of the General Management Unit, he teaches the required MBA courses Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) and... View Details

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

Economist. HBS professor William Sahlman, who studied Osher's career and wrote the case study on his company, Dr. John's Products, Ltd., said in an introduction that while much of Osher's success might look from the outside View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

September 2022 (Revised January 2023)
Case

Bear to Bull: An Analyst’s Journey with Netflix

By: Aiyesha Dey, Joseph Pacelli, Jennifer G. Lawson and Tom Quinn

Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter said “hell freezing over” was more likely than him upgrading the “sell” rating he had maintained on movie and television streaming giant Netflix since 2011, despite meteoric subscriber and share price growth. In 2022, however,... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Asset Pricing; Cash Flow; Investment; Stocks; Equity; Analysis; Attitudes; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States

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Educators

Purchase

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

world's poor live in countries where governments lack either the will or the ability to raise living standards on their own. Financial assistance to such governments,... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

The Balanced Scorecard introduced customer metrics into performance management systems. Scorecards feature all manner of wonderful objectives relating to the customer value proposition and customer outcome metrics—for example, market... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

01 Jun 2001
News

Donella Rapier to Head External Relations

where she taught the first-year MBA accounting course, Financial Reporting and Control. Since making the transition to CFO, Rapier has overseen and managed all aspects of the... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

institutions within individual and community networks. But they have not done so to date. Enter the SEC One novel way to assure that independent hospitals create network plans is View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

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