Financial Statements - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2010
News

Reinventing the Annual Report

"That's the report. Now, would anyone like to carp?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/ www.cartoonbank.com I am always interested in reading what the companies I own stock in have to say about themselves in their ritualistic annual reports filled with View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

also discussed. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607081 Dollar General Going Private Harvard Business School Case 108-015 Intended to improve students' understanding and encourage their use of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 2002 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

By: Paul M. Healy

Krispy Kreme is a rapidly growing firm with a business model that has excited Wall Street. View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Reporting; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)

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05 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 5, 2007

immigrant establishes a new notions store. The initial 3-month, GAAP-based income statement differs from one prepared by an economist friend. The store owner wants to know why one shows a profit and the other a loss. Purchase this case: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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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

15 Mar 2021
Blog Post

REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

about business and environment for nearly five decades, and much of this work has been highly influential. But from my perspective, at least three things are very different now compared to when I began five years ago. First, our mission. When I started our mission... View Details

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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni

sponsorship and merit-based scholarships from non-employers; it does not include need-based fellowships awarded by HBS Financial Aid. Financial need is not required for eligibility. However, preference is... View Details

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Often the CEO is portrayed as 'the only person in the world who could do this job' You can thank the financial press for this mystique." In pointing out the futility of the effort, Rebecca West commented that "the current... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Case Method - Research Resources | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Rivkin discusses the first case and the history of the case method. Inside the Case Method (April 10, 2009) span> Core Works on the Case Method Andrews, Kenneth R., ed., The Case Method of Teaching Human Relations and Administration: An Interim View Details

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

Management Badaracco started by researching the experience of entrepreneurs-figuring that if anyone knew what it meant to struggle it was those who started small businesses, half of which fail within the first year. In the wake of the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

overstatement of expenses. Obviously, many taxpayers give in to the temptation to cheat on their taxes—in spite of the requirement for them to sign a statement declaring that the information on the form is "true, correct, and complete."... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

a relatively young, upstart company. The case is framed from the perspective of an emerging markets financial analyst presented with the financial statements and operational... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

of 'business as usual.'" Other leaders, like Alex Urquhart, president and CEO of GE Commercial Finance's Energy Financial Services, take a slightly more tempered approach. "It's always tempting to say, 'You guys do the old... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

In it, I compared data collected from the offices of a large marketing services firm to which I had been given unusual access. Here are some data from employee engagement studies, human resource reports, and financial View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

expectations to businesspeople. He also published forecasts through syndicated newspaper columns and made public pronouncements on the future of the economy—including a notorious statement on the eve of the October 1929 stock-market crash... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Podcast - HBS Online

associate dean for HBS Online and Executive Education, joins host Chris Linnane to uncover how financial statements communicate the essentials of business and why accounting is a universal language... View Details

November 1994 (Revised February 1996)
Case

Toy World, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester

A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit arrangements. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Working Capital; Business Cycles; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Financial Statements

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