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  • January 1999
  • Case

State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kelley Porter
With Multi-currency HORIZON, a real-time multi-currency accounting system that replaced the traditional batch-oriented single-currency accounting system, successfully launched, State Street Corp. (State Street) began to focus on growing the scope of its business... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Trends; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry
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Bradley, Stephen P., and Kelley Porter. "State Street Corporation: Leading with Information Technology (B)." Harvard Business School Case 799-034, January 1999.
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry

By: DG Park, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the interactive media and services industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact... View Details
Keywords: Product Innovation; Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; Social Corporate Responsibility; Corporate Social Responsibility; Social Impact; Product Design; Product Positioning; Society; Product; Environmental Sustainability; Measurement and Metrics; Framework; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Media; Technology Industry
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Park, DG, George Serafeim, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-134, June 2021.
  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Structure of Board Committees

By: Kevin D. Chen and Andy Wu
We document and analyze board committee structures utilizing a novel dataset containing full board committee membership for over 6,000 firms. Board committees provide benefits (specialization, efficiency, and accountability benefits) and costs (information... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Specialization; Accountability; Information Segregation; Overloaded Directors; Multi-commitee Directors; Sarbanes-Oxley Act; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Accounting; Corporate Governance
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Chen, Kevin D., and Andy Wu. "The Structure of Board Committees." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-032, October 2016.
  • 06 Aug 2014
  • News

An Insider's Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Keywords: international deal; China; Internet; Yahoo; Information; Information
  • Web

Faculty | Information Technology

new ways. How can HBS IT help you make a difference? We’re here to help you identify and implement flexible and easy-to-use tools that empower you to teach, learn, and work more effectively every day. To get help, email us at mbaithelp@hbs.edu . Getting Started View Details
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Of Measurement and Mission: Accounting for Performance in Non-Governmental Organizations

By: Debora L. Spar
As members of civil society NGOs would seem to have a built-in proclivity towards representation: towards working on behalf of some group of people, or toward some specific goal. Yet in practice such moments of accountability are rare. Unlike other social agents,... View Details
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We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here's How to Get There.

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Karthik Ramanna
Any effective system of greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting needs to measure each company’s supply-chain carbon impacts accurately. Such information would provide visibility and incentives for the company to make more climate-friendly product-specification and purchasing... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Greenhouse Gas Emissions; GHG; Carbon Accounting; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Supply Chain
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Karthik Ramanna. "We Need Better Carbon Accounting. Here's How to Get There." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (April 12, 2022).
  • 05 Sep 2000
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Whither the Information Economy?

be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets that accountants have never seen fit to include as legitimate entries on balance sheets (other than as grossly misnamed "goodwill").... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Staff | Information Technology

learn, and work more effectively every day. To get help, email us at ithelp@hbs.edu . Getting Started Information for community members who are setting up new accounts at HBS. Onboarding Resources Policies... View Details
  • January 2022 (Revised March 2022)
  • Module Note

Analysis of Financial and Non-Financial Information for Forecasting Performance

By: Charles C.Y. Wang
This note describes the main themes and cases of a teaching module on the analysis of information from, and outside of, financial statements for forecasting firms’ future financial performance. The module’s pedagogical goal is to deepen students’ understanding of the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Performance; Analysis; Valuation; Accounting; Finance
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Wang, Charles C.Y. "Analysis of Financial and Non-Financial Information for Forecasting Performance." Harvard Business School Module Note 122-071, January 2022. (Revised March 2022.)
  • May 1990 (Revised September 1994)
  • Background Note

Note on Financial Reporting Strategy and Analysis When Managers Have Proprietary Information

By: Krishna G. Palepu
Provides a framework that helps explain these real-world observations about accounting and financial statement analysis. When managers have superior information on firms' strategies, and when investors suspect that managers have incentives not to fully disclose this... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Strategy; Knowledge Management
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Palepu, Krishna G. "Note on Financial Reporting Strategy and Analysis When Managers Have Proprietary Information." Harvard Business School Background Note 190-188, May 1990. (Revised September 1994.)
  • April 1972
  • Article

Investor Evaluation of Accounting Information: Some Empirical Evidence

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Richard Roll
Keywords: Accounting; Information
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Kaplan, Robert S., and Richard Roll. "Investor Evaluation of Accounting Information: Some Empirical Evidence." Journal of Business 45 (April 1972): 225–257.
  • 2008
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Bank Accounting Standards in Mexico. A Layman's Guide to Changes 10 Years after the 1995 Bank Crisis

By: Gustavo A. Del Angel, Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
After the 1995 crisis, the Mexican banking system experienced significant changes in bank accounting standards. Most of these changes took place between 1996 and 2001, and had a significant impact in the structure and interpretation of financial information of banks.... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Accounting; Standards; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Mexico
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Del Angel, Gustavo A., Stephen Haber, and Aldo Musacchio. "Bank Accounting Standards in Mexico. A Layman's Guide to Changes 10 Years after the 1995 Bank Crisis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-090, April 2008.
  • November 2002 (Revised March 2007)
  • Case

Keane's Acquisition of Metro Information Services (A)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
On August 21, 2001, Keane, Inc. announced the acquisition of Metro Information Services, Inc. This case analyzes the challenges facing firms and examines transactions whose major source of value creation hinges on intangible assets (e.g., people or knowledge). View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Value Creation; Goodwill Accounting; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry
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Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis. "Keane's Acquisition of Metro Information Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 103-042, November 2002. (Revised March 2007.)
  • 2022
  • Case

Can Salesforce Compete in the Carbon Accounting Market?

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
This case describes Salesforce's development of Sustainability Cloud, a suite of software tools built to help companies measure, track, and report carbon emissions and other sustainability metrics. The goal of this case is to provide students with a background and... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Accounting; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Accountability; Applications and Software
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Hoffman, Andrew J. "Can Salesforce Compete in the Carbon Accounting Market?" William Davidson Institute Case 6-796-717, 2022.
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) Annual Conference Best Paper Award for “Does Information Technology Reduce Corporate Misconduct?” with Jonas Heese. Joseph Pacelli : Winner of the Best Paper Award at the 2022 MIT Asia Conference in... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability

Management (TOM), a first-term offering, in order to add significant new content on the management of information technology. “These changes represent only the most recent step in the continuous evolution of our MBA Program,” said Kester... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Spring 2013
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Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?

By: Joanne Horton, George Serafeim and Ioanna Serafeim
We examine the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) adoption on firms' information environment. We find that after mandatory IFRS adoption, consensus forecast errors decrease for firms that mandatorily adopt IFRS relative to forecast... View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Financial Reporting; Standards; Information; Quality; Earnings Management
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Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Ioanna Serafeim. "Does Mandatory IFRS Adoption Improve the Information Environment?" Contemporary Accounting Research 30, no. 1 (Spring 2013): 388–423.
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Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research

By: Robert Bloomfield, Mark W. Nelson and Eugene F. Soltes
In the published proceedings of the first Journal of Accounting Research Conference, Vatter (1966) lamented that “Gathering direct and original facts is a tedious and difficult task, and it is not surprising that such work is avoided.” For the 50th JAR Conference,... View Details
Keywords: Archival; Data; Experiment; Empirical Methods; Field Study; Analytics and Data Science; Surveys; Financial Reporting
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Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes. "Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research." Journal of Accounting Research 54, no. 2 (May 2016): 341–395.
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Encrypting Emails | Information Technology

Encrypting Emails Microsoft Purview Message Encryption When sending sensitive information to other people, you need to be extremely careful regarding what tools you use. Which is why we’re pleased that Microsoft is providing a solution... View Details
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