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Andrew Goldin

says. "And the depth of the Social Enterprise Initiative – the courses it supports, the trips and extracurricular activities – really drew me in. At HBS, social enterprise is a true priority – not just a mission statement on a web... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

for the test with speedy release to market that would appeal to investors. The logic is that you need a win. Once you establish a good foundation, you will have the opportunity to expand to what feels morally correct. —Muthanna Al-Mumin (GMP 22, 2017) Because the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

lending to one, or even working for one, you should be able to read its financial statements and ask questions based on those statements. This book examines some of the more advanced topics in accounting and... View Details
  • 18 Jun 2007
  • Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • December 2010 (Revised September 2011)
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Kanebo Ltd. (A)

By: David F. Hawkins, Suraj Srinivasan, Akiko Kanno and Lizzie Gomez
Speculation as to how Japanese companies might implement IFRS with particular emphasis on consolidation accounting. View Details
Keywords: History; Business Conglomerates; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Consolidation; Financial Statements; International Finance; International Accounting; Standards; Goodwill Accounting; Manufacturing Industry; Japan
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Propose an Independent Project | MBA

expected to maintain the highest ethical standards. If you are concerned about issues of confidentiality, you may want to ask your student team to sign a non-disclosure statement prepared by Harvard Business School. Any potential... View Details
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

the most influential education is going to happen when Bitcoin finds a killer use case. So far, that case hasn’t emerged, but once those use cases start solving real problems for large groups of people, governments and financial... View Details
Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development

found her work in the field to be the most important and satisfying aspect of her job. "If my interactions with clients were limited to studying their financial statements on paper, I would not have fully... View Details
  • November 1999 (Revised July 2001)
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New Profit Inc.: Governing the Nonprofit Enterprise

By: Robert S. Kaplan
New Profit, Inc. (NPI) is an innovative venture philanthropy fund. Founded by social entrepreneur Venessa Kirsch, NPI intends to raise large donations from individuals who wish to invest in nonprofit enterprises that could have a significant social impact and the... View Details
Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Nonprofit Organizations; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Corporate Governance; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Service Industry
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  • 20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

learnings captured in his recent book, Deep Purpose: The Heart and Soul of High Performance Companies. READ MORE Flint: Why don't we start by talking about what you mean by deep purpose and how it’s different from the mission statements... View Details
Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Board’s Effectiveness

Subsequently, it needs information on how well the strategy is being implemented and what results the strategy is delivering. Directors cannot infer from quarterly financial statements whether the company... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
  • 02 Sep 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

earned (i.e free) media coverage; name recognition is not an issue. He draws much larger and more enthusiastic crowds than Clinton, which may impress television viewing audiences. He is increasingly combining scripted policy statements... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
  • 19 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Books

Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance, Paine has condensed twenty years of research and teaching in the oftenmaligned field of business ethics to argue that companies can — indeed must — be... View Details
  • September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
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Summit Distributors (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton
Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income... View Details
Keywords: Taxation; Cost Accounting; Cash Flow; Interest Rates; Economic Systems; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Statements; Valuation; Accounting Audits; Financing and Loans; Accounting Industry; Legal Services Industry
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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

Careers Careers Loan Assistance Programs HBS offers a variety of career support programs for eligible students and new alumni that provide financial assistance for those who choose careers in which starting salaries are lower than those... View Details
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Norton Negotiation Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 ^ back to top P Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Joseph Pacelli Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements... View Details
  • 19 May 2016
  • Blog Post

5 Lessons from Business School

time management, feedback and coaching, and creating a community among diverse people. Second year, working on an independent project requires you to learn in a different, self-motivated way. While important, things like reading financial... View Details