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  • June 2012 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

MF Global: Where's the Money?

By: Clayton S. Rose, Pamela Chan and Raghav Chopra
When MF Global failed in October of 2011, it was discovered that $1.6 billion of segregated customer assets was missing. Safeguarding these assets was the firm's responsibility, and in the words of one SEC official, its "sacred obligation." What is known about the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Firms; Customer Obligations; Bankruptcy; Regulation; Financial Crisis; Brokerage; Asset Management; Ethics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Management; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Services Industry
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Rose, Clayton S., Pamela Chan, and Raghav Chopra. "MF Global: Where's the Money?" Harvard Business School Case 312-106, June 2012. (Revised August 2012.)

    V.G. Narayanan

    Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry
    • November 2006
    • Article

    The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies

    By: Raghuram G. Rajan and Julie Wulf
    Using a detailed database of managerial job descriptions, reporting relationships, and compensation structures in over 300 large U.S. firms, we find that firm hierarchies are becoming flatter. The number of positions reporting directly to the CEO has gone up... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Change; Business Ventures; Compensation and Benefits; Rank and Position; Wages; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Jobs and Positions; United States
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    Rajan, Raghuram G., and Julie Wulf. "The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies." Review of Economics and Statistics 88, no. 4 (November 2006): 759–773.
    • 02 Sep 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

    profits and managerial problems in the United States between the 1950s and the 1980s. It seemed important to ascertain whether this was a problem unique to one firm, or part of a more general pattern. The upshot was a conference organised... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management

    By: Luke C.D. Stein and Charles C.Y. Wang
    In the presence of managerial short-termism and asymmetric information about skill and effort provision, firms may opportunistically shift earnings from uncertain to more certain times. We document empirically that when financial markets are less certain about a firm's... View Details
    Keywords: Discretionary Accruals; Uncertainty; Implied Volatility; Earnings Response Coefficient; Risk and Uncertainty; Earnings Management; Financial Markets
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    Stein, Luke C.D., and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Economic Uncertainty and Earnings Management." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-103, March 2016. (Revised April 2017.)
    • 14 Oct 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

    field questions from HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace in an e-mail interview.Lagace: In The Support Economy, you make the case that managerial capitalism, invented a hundred years ago, desperately needs an overhaul. How... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 2007
    • Casebook

    Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

    By: Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman and Susan Moore Johnson
    Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Public Sector; Organizational Design; Education; Performance Improvement
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    Childress, Stacey, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson, eds. Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2007.

      Managing School Districts for High Performance

      Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and... View Details
      • 28 Jan 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?

      Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen
      • December 2012
      • Article

      On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off

      By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis
      This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is right can be fairly nebulous; we consider two issues that we see as key: efficiency and fairness. We... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Support; Cost vs Benefits; Fairness; Resource Allocation; Performance Efficiency; Air Transportation Industry
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      Bertsimas, Dimitris, Vivek F. Farias, and Nikolaos Trichakis. "On the Efficiency-Fairness Trade-Off." Management Science 58, no. 12 (December 2012): 2234–2250.
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      Overview

      Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details
      Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization
      • August 2010
      • Supplement

      Batson International, S.A. (C)

      By: David F. Hawkins
      Senior management must sign a management letter. An internal audit reveals a number of questionable accounting practices (B case). How should senior management respond? View Details
      Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Managerial Roles; Standards; United States
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      Hawkins, David F. "Batson International, S.A. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-025, August 2010.

        Max H. Bazerman

        Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details
        Keywords: accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry
        • 2011
        • Article

        Organizational Errors: Directions for Future Research

        By: Paul S. Goodman, Rangaraj Ramanujam, John S. Carroll and Amy C. Edmondson
        The goal of this paper is to promote research about organizational errors—i.e., the actions of multiple organizational participants that deviate from organizationally specified rules and can potentially result in adverse organizational outcomes. To that end, we advance... View Details
        Keywords: Research; Organizations; Interests; Managerial Roles; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Practices and Processes; Learning
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        Goodman, Paul S., Rangaraj Ramanujam, John S. Carroll, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Organizational Errors: Directions for Future Research." Research in Organizational Behavior 31 (2011): 151–176.
        • 2019
        • Working Paper

        Managing Churn to Maximize Profits

        By: Aurelie Lemmens and Sunil Gupta
        Customer defection threatens many industries, prompting companies to deploy targeted, proactive customer retention programs and offers. A conventional approach has been to target customers either based on their predicted churn probability, or their responsiveness to a... View Details
        Keywords: Churn Management; Defection Prediction; Loss Function; Stochastic Gradient Boosting; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Profit
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        Lemmens, Aurelie, and Sunil Gupta. "Managing Churn to Maximize Profits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-020, September 2013. (Revised December 2019. Forthcoming at Marketing Science.)
        • 2010
        • Working Paper

        Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

        By: Andrew Hill and David A. Thomas
        Studies of minority hiring have found that poor-performing firms or firms in highly competitive contexts are more likely to hire minority candidates. However, most work has examined hiring for entry and mid-level positions, not senior management. Management positions... View Details
        Keywords: Diversity; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Performance Effectiveness; Sports Industry; United States
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        Hill, Andrew, and David A. Thomas. "Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-032, September 2010.
        • September–October 2020
        • Article

        Managing Churn to Maximize Profits

        By: Aurelie Lemmens and Sunil Gupta
        Customer defection threatens many industries, prompting companies to deploy targeted, proactive customer retention programs and offers. A conventional approach has been to target customers either based on their predicted churn probability or their responsiveness to a... View Details
        Keywords: Churn Management; Defection Prediction; Loss Function; Stochastic Gradient Boosting; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Profit
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        Lemmens, Aurelie, and Sunil Gupta. "Managing Churn to Maximize Profits." Marketing Science 39, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 956–973.
        • June 1992 (Revised March 2006)
        • Case

        Concordia Casting Company

        By: F. Warren McFarlan
        Describes five years of development in a centralized data processing activity serving a highly decentralized corporation. Data processing manager discovers that a major software system conversion is a full year behind schedule, and subsequently makes several managerial... View Details
        Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Applications and Software; System; Information Technology; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Human Resources; Conflict and Resolution; Supply Chain Management; Accounting; Auto Industry
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        McFarlan, F. Warren. "Concordia Casting Company." Harvard Business School Case 192-151, June 1992. (Revised March 2006.)
        • May 2022
        • Article

        Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications

        By: Robert S. Kaplan and Susanna Gallani
        We use a health care application to illustrate how variance analysis can be used to benchmark costs across similar service delivery sites. Variances for personnel costs, typically the largest cost component in service organizations, are calculated for price, quantity,... View Details
        Keywords: Variance Analysis; Benchmarking; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Care and Treatment; Service Delivery; Service Industry
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        Kaplan, Robert S., and Susanna Gallani. "Variance Analysis: New Insights from Health Care Applications." Issues in Accounting Education 37, no. 2 (May 2022): 27–36.
        • 27 Jan 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: January 27, 2009

        automatically consider the potentially dubious motives of agents who cause harm indirectly. Experiment 4 demonstrates an effect of indirect agency on purchase intentions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-012.pdf Product-Market Competition and... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
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