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- September 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Microsoft's Financial Reporting Strategy
Explores Microsoft's overall financial reporting strategy by examining the company's treatment of two accounting issues--software capitalization and revenue recognition. For both issues, the company selects accounting methods that are relatively conservative. Also... View Details
Matsumoto, Dawn, and Robert Bowen. "Microsoft's Financial Reporting Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 100-027, September 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 06 Nov 2008
- News
Wal-Mart reports profits while other retailers report losses
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: What's the best way to report nonfinancial metrics? How can nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
decipher from public filings. Their proposal, which will likely meet fierce opposition from accountants, lawyers, and managers, is a laudable first step in restoring sanity to U.S. corporate profit reporting. When the corporate tax was introduced, making the View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- March 3, 2007
- Article
Reporting for Duty
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "Reporting for Duty." New York Times (March 3, 2007).
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
HBS Contributors Report
Support from alumni and friends accounted for almost one-quarter of the School’s revenue in the fiscal year that ended June 30, 2011, according to the HBS Contributors Report, which was mailed to some 12,000 donors in November. All told, with the help of alumni... View Details
- April 1995
- Background Note
Independent Auditor's Report
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Accounting Audits
Hawkins, David F. "Independent Auditor's Report." Harvard Business School Background Note 195-184, April 1995.
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
The Case for Integrated Reporting
The Need for One Report
Harvard Business School professor Robert G. Eccles and Grant Thornton partner Michael Krzus discuss the growing trend of integrated reporting worldwide and how their book ONE REPORT will help companies succeed in the transition to this new transparency. View Details
- 2002
- Book
Reading Financial Reports
By: William J. Bruns, Paul M. Healy, J. H. Hertenstein, Robert S. Kaplan and Sharon M. McKinnon
Bruns, William J., Paul M. Healy, J. H. Hertenstein, Robert S. Kaplan, and Sharon M. McKinnon. Reading Financial Reports. 2nd ed. Business Fundamentals . Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2002.
- 17 Jul 2015
- News
Why Integrated Reporting Makes Sense
- Article
Does the Scope of the Sell-Side Analyst Industry Matter? An Examination of Bias, Accuracy, and Information Content of Analyst Reports
By: Kenneth Merkley, Roni Michaely and Joseph Pacelli
We examine changes in the scope of the sell-side analyst industry and whether these changes impact information dissemination and the quality of analysts’ reports. Our findings suggest that changes in the number of analysts covering an industry impact analyst... View Details
Keywords: Analyst Industry; Sell-side Analysts; Analyst Reports; Finance; Analysis; Information; Reports; Quality; Financial Services Industry
Merkley, Kenneth, Roni Michaely, and Joseph Pacelli. "Does the Scope of the Sell-Side Analyst Industry Matter? An Examination of Bias, Accuracy, and Information Content of Analyst Reports." Journal of Finance 72, no. 3 (June 2017): 1285–1334.
- 28 Aug 2020
- Video
Stata Reproducible Reporting (DynDoc) Demo
- 24 Feb 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Integrated Reporting and Investor Clientele
- Teaching Interest
Finance Reporting and Control
Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) is a course about how leaders can design and use performance measurement systems to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details
- 1999
- Book
Reading Financial Reports
By: W. J. Bruns Jr., J. H. Hertenstein and S. M. McKinnon
Keywords: Financial Reporting
Bruns, W. J., Jr., J. H. Hertenstein, and S. M. McKinnon. Reading Financial Reports. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
- 2017
- Chapter
Toward Transparent Reporting of Psychological Science
By: Etienne P. LeBel and Leslie K. John
In this chapter we make a case for increased transparency of the methods used to obtain research findings. Although comprehensive reporting facilitates accurate assessment of a paper’s claims, the current reporting norm is secrecy, not openness. We begin by putting... View Details
LeBel, Etienne P., and Leslie K. John. "Toward Transparent Reporting of Psychological Science." In Psychological Science under Scrutiny: Recent Challenges and Proposed Solutions, edited by S.O. Lilienfeld and I.D. Waldman. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2017.
- 27 Oct 2021
- News
Contributors Report 2021
- October 2021
- Case
Sparking Growth at Consumer Reports
Consumer Reports (CR) is a nonprofit organization that traditionally provided independent testing and research on consumer goods. With the need to diversify its audience and revenue streams CR partnered with market research firm Spark No. 9 to identify potential... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Management; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Social Media; Innovation and Management; Nonprofit Organizations
Wallace, Christina. "Sparking Growth at Consumer Reports." Harvard Business School Case 822-035, October 2021.
- January 1996 (Revised December 1997)
- Case
Colgate-Palmolive Company: Analyzing an Annual Report
By: William J. Bruns Jr.
A directed analysis of the Colgate-Palmolive Co. annual report. Focuses on the basics of reading an annual report including analysis of financial statements, calculation of financial ratios, and study of the layout and message of the report. Industry financial ratios... View Details