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    Lynn S. Paine

    Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

    • February 1994 (Revised May 1995)
    • Case

    Metallgesellschaft AG

    By: David F. Hawkins and Guy J. Weyns
    Metallgesellschaft AG is a commodity and engineering conglomerate based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Metallgesellschaft Corp., a New York based subsidiary of the group, has made oil trading and hedging errors that could drive the group into insolvency. The impact of... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Audits; Business Conglomerates; Forecasting and Prediction; Trade; Non-Renewable Energy
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    • 27 Jan 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: January 27

    health care providers have devoted significant efforts to improve performance regarding patient safety and quality of care. To address the lagging involvement of health care providers in the cost component of the value equation, UCLA... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    By: Ethan C. Rouen
    Relying on empirical archival methodologies—as well as techniques in data science—to develop and structure new sources of data by which to approach questions of looming disclosure changes, Professor Rouen has focused on one of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s... View Details
    • 24 Feb 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: February 24

    adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice. In these areas, corporate managers and financial experts such as auditors and bankers possess the technical expertise necessary for informed regulation, enjoy... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 May 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets

    world invest in US listed companies because the US legal regime offers a high level of investor protection. High quality auditing is a big part of this protection. When our investor protections standards go... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Accounting
    • 10 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 10

    increases in comparability: firms having low amounts of reconciling items between U.K. GAAP and IFRS, and firms having ex ante high quality information environments. Together, the results are consistent with mandatory IFRS adoption... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (119) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (77) Agency Theory (3) Age (3) Agreements and... View Details
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    Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

    describes how rating agencies and other organizations are seeking to improve the quality of carbon credits sold in the voluntary carbon market to organizations seeking to use them to supplement their internal decarbonization efforts to... View Details
    • December 2010
    • Article

    The Case for Professional Boards

    By: Robert C. Pozen
    When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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    Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

    Calyx Global: Rating Carbon Credits By: Michael W. Toffel and Adam Chen March 2025 | Case | Faculty Research This case describes how rating agencies and other organizations are seeking to improve the quality of carbon credits sold in the... View Details
    • 15 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15

    paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2190963 Which Does More to Determine the Quality of Corporate Governance in Emerging Economies, Firms or Countries? Authors:Hugill, Andrea, and Jordan Siegel Abstract Scholars of corporate governance have... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Nov 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

    In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
    Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
    • 16 Mar 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

    patients alike will be able to track and share air quality analytics in a very democratized way from their handheld sensors connected to their mobile phones and organized and served up by third-party rating databases like the future... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    Industry Information - Alumni

    biotechnology, drug discovery technologies, clinical diagnostics, healthcare IT, medical imaging, and medical devices, and provide local expertise along with a global perspective. BioSpace Leading online community for industry news and careers for life science... View Details
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    Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

    programs conclude with a required deadline. Details on individual course or program requirements are communicated to enrolled participants at the start of the course or program. Can I audit an HBS Online course? Because HBS Online expects... View Details
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    Harvard Business School

    IlliniCare Health in August 2017. Rashid is a pioneer in the Medicaid managed care landscape, helping to ensure there is access to quality and affordable health care to the “people most in need.” Before joining IlliniCare Health, Rashid... View Details
    • 12 Sep 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

    function, however, it’s unclear what the brands should be doing with the information. “There’s an ongoing debate as to whether these audits are simply snapshots to figure out the facts on the ground so multinationals can vote with their... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 21 Jul 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: July 21

    ratings play an important role in the financial system, but investors and regulators who use ratings cannot easily verify their quality, and ratings are paid for by the firms whose bonds are rated. The provision of quality ratings is at... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Oct 1997
    • News

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    Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of corporate behavior is the subject of a working paper, "Environmental... View Details