Accrual-based Earnings Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report

Despite a sluggish economy that constrained revenue growth for a second year, HBS finished fiscal year 2003 last June with a balanced budget and double-digit growth in its endowment funds. “Through careful management of our expenses, we... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Oct 2001
News

Making a World of Difference

in the midtown Manhattan headquarters of Halcyon/Alan B. Slifka Management Company. In discussing the success of his investment firm, he points out that his traders are not only innovative and individualistic but also cooperative. When... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Jun 2003
News

HP's Fiorina Speaks at HBS

underemployment at home and abroad, before eventually earning an MBA at the University of Maryland. In 1999, after almost twenty years in the executive ranks at AT&T and Lucent, the one-time HP secretary returned to her former employer as... View Details

Keywords: HP; Hewlitt-Packard; Fiorina; Compaq; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

Imitation: The Case of Sponsor-Based Business Models Authors:Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This paper provides the first formal model of business model innovation.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Media

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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

Citation

Find at Harvard

01 Dec 2001
News

Faculty News

Nancy F. Koehn, a member of the Entrepreneurial and Service Management unit and an authority on business history, has been named a full professor. Honored in 1998 by the HBS Student Association for her classroom excellence, Koehn... View Details

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

01 Mar 2007
News

Security Chief

Parker Imagine having a conversation with the head of HR that goes something like this: Over the past several years with the company, I’ve helped turn around an ailing division. Now I’d like to try my hand at managing a growth business.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; technology-based security business; Management; Management; Management

01 Jun 2009
News

Cynthia Carroll

“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Management

Profile

Raja Bobbili

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? In my view, the case method is the be-all and end-all of business education – I couldn’t imagine a better way to learn business than through the dynamic process of discussing and debating... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund

01 Jun 2008
News

Alfaro Named Young Global Leader

accomplishments, commitment to society, and potential to contribute to shaping the future of the world. A native of Costa Rica, Alfaro earned her Ph.D. in economics from UCLA. View Details

Keywords: Management; Management

November 1997
Case

Colly Cotton Ltd.

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay

Colly Farm is an entrepreneurial cotton farm complex that has to compete on a world market. In going public it has to satisfy the market that it can remain profitable in volatile times. View Details

Keywords: Earnings Management; Entrepreneurship; Going Public; Balance and Stability

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Educators

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01 Mar 2008
News

Classroom Legend

officer and an administrator in the office of the Quartermaster General, earning the rank of captain. World War II had a significant impact on Christensen’s career. The organizational challenges of warfare on a global scale encouraged the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Apr 2001
News

Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered

of Tom’s classes could ever forget him.” Kennedy developed an expertise in international labor relations while teaching from 1976 to 1978 in an Executive Education program then offered by HBS in Switzerland. He also participated in View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Sep 2017
News

Futures Made Bright Through Opportunity

Helping African Businesses Compete on the Global Stage Sheila Kyarisiima’s (MBA/MPA 2017) curiosity about building things, especially infrastructure, prompted the Kampala, Uganda, native to come to the United States in 2007 to study engineering. Now, a decade later,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

15 Apr 2016
News

First African American Woman to Receive Harvard MBA Talks Power of Persistence, Resilience, and Courage

(Image: Cathy Walsh) (Image: Cathy Walsh) The first African American woman to earn an MBA at Harvard Business School, Lillian Lincoln Lambert (MBA 1969) attended the School at a time when women weren’t allowed to live on campus. Instead,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Student-Profile

Elliot Tobin

football.” After earning his bachelor’s degree in economics, management from MIT and a master’s in applied economics and data science from Boston College, the Minnesota transplant is currently balancing his... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

that hospital visits and usage plummeted, the perverse nature of the payment system meant Duke couldn’t benefit from saving its patients’ money — nearly $8,000 per person. In only one year, the program had reduced costs by 40 percent, yielding the kind of do-good... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Management; Management

19 Aug 2013
News

Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers

participants, the income earned from honey production often makes the difference between living below or above the poverty line. When not helping his fellow Kenyans boost their incomes and satisfy their palates, Keshavjee also makes sure... View Details

Keywords: Management; Management; Management; Management

August 2012 (Revised September 2012)
Case

JP Morgan Chase & the CIO Losses

By: Clayton Rose

On July 13, 2012, JP Morgan Chase & Co. announced a larger than expected loss for the quarter, $4.4 billion, from positions held in the Chief Investment Office (CIO), raising the total losses to $5.9 billion. Since the substantial risks in the CIO had first been... View Details