Publications

November 2000 (Revised January 2003)
Case

Yahoo!'s Stock-Based Compensation

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen

Amy Maislos, an investor in Internet and technology companies, was excited to read that Yahoo! had reported a positive net income for 1998 operations. During the late 1990s, stock prices of Internet companies had risen rapidly even though most companies were reporting... View Details

Keywords: Stock Options; Internet and the Web; Financial Statements; Corporate Disclosure; Business Earnings; Earnings Management; Information Technology Industry

July 2000
Case

Aerospace Technologies, Inc.

By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen

Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses... View Details

Keywords: Accrual Accounting; Accounting; Revenue; Cost; Business or Company Management; Profit; Engineering; Bids and Bidding; Government and Politics; Private Ownership; Consulting Industry; Israel

winter 1986
Article

Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers with Non-Big Eight Audit Firms

By: Paul M. Healy and Tom Lys

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Change; Business Ventures; Mergers and Acquisitions

June 2018 (Revised July 2018)
Case

PCAOB Efforts to Improve Audit Quality (A)

By: Aiyesha Dey and Paul Healy

July 2020 (Revised July 2023)
Case

Mira's Microbrewery Inc.

By: Paul M. Healy and Marshal Herrmann

March 2016
Article

An Analysis of Firms' Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts

By: Paul M. Healy and George Serafeim

We use Transparency International's ratings of self-reported anticorruption efforts for 480 corporations to analyze factors underlying the ratings. Our tests examine whether these forms of disclosure reflect firms' real efforts to combat corruption or are cheap talk.... View Details

Keywords: Corruption; Corporate Performance; Growth; Disclosure; Disclosure Strategy; Sustainability; Crime and Corruption; Corporate Disclosure; Performance; Sales

June 2008 (Revised May 2009)
Supplement

Corruption at Siemens (B)

By: Paul M. Healy and Maria Loumioti

Keywords: Crime and Corruption

June 2008 (Revised May 2009)
Case

Corruption at Siemens (A)

By: Paul M. Healy and Maria Loumioti

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Electronics Industry

February 2007 (Revised April 2007)
Teaching Note

10 Uncommon Values®: Optimizing the Stock-Selection Process (TN)

By: Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy

Keywords: Stocks; Values and Beliefs

August 2000 (Revised January 2001)
Background Note

Asset Reporting

By: Paul M. Healy and Preeti Choudhary

Using historical cost and conservatism to identify and value assets, this case explains the criteria for asset reporting in straightforward situations and then examines scenarios where implementing the criteria for recognition and valuation of assets is conceptually... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Assets; Problems and Challenges; Accounting Industry

Article

Dividend Decisions and Earnings

By: Paul M. Healy and Franco Modigliani

Keywords: Stocks; Finance

01 Jun 2012
News

At Ease

Fellows. Afterward, he talked with vets (from left) Danny Cho and Paul Stouffer (both MBA 2012) and Justin Langlois (HBS 2013). Earlier, Mullen fielded questions from students in two classes taught by... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

May 2014 (Revised April 2016)
Case

Three-Year Planning at Li & Fung Limited

By: Paul M. Healy and Keith Chi-ho Wong

Having been able to follow its own "three-year plan" on course constantly, Li & Fung Limited fell short of meeting its stretch earnings target for the first time in almost two decades, leading to a double-digit drop in stock price overnight. Questions were raised on... View Details

Keywords: Li ＆ Fung; Financial Planning; Accounting; Financial Reporting; Distribution Industry; Service Industry; Hong Kong; China