by Arthur Segel - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

remain relevant, business schools will have to rethink many of their most cherished assumptions." In an interview, we asked Datar and Garvin to explain more. Datar, the Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard University,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

27 Mar 2024
Video

The Ritual Effect Book Launch and Faculty Band Performance

15 Oct 2013
News

Fourteen Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Join Harvard Business School

15 Feb 2022
News

Can Happiness Be Taught To Hard-Charging Harvard MBAs?

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

causes of the scandals were systemic rather than a matter of a proverbial "few bad apples." In the panel, moderated by HBS professor Krishna Palepu, panelists also said that new laws ,and regulations were already making a... View Details

Keywords: by Catherine Walsh

08 Dec 2014
News

Harvard Business School Announces Sixteen Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

23 Oct 2012
News

Seventeen Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Join Harvard Business School

April 2004 (Revised September 2007)
Case

Accounting Fraud at WorldCom

By: Robert S. Kaplan and David Kiron

The principal players in WorldCom's accounting fraud included CFO Scott Sullivan, the General Accounting and Internal Audit departments, external auditor Arthur Andersen, and the board of directors. The case provides sufficient detail to allow for a full discussion of... View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Governing and Advisory Boards; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Financial Reporting; Organizational Culture; Corporate Governance; Accounting Audits

Citation

Educators

Purchase

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

booms, we have seen the impositions of tougher standards by venture capitalists when examining whether to fund or refinance companies, a decrease in the valuations assigned to these firms, and a slowing of the frenetic pace of investment.... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

raises interesting questions about how leaders are chosen. It appears the employees have engineered the return of company President Arthur T. Demoulas by nearly putting their organization out of business. It... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

the firm's people was the most fulfilling of all. You need to know how to work with people, and that skill is largely experiential and driven by personality.—Kevin McCall Peter Palandjian (HBS MBA '93), chairman and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

17 Nov 2020
Video

New Founder Series: Customer Discovery

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

04 Oct 2011
News

Harvard Business School NamesThirteen Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

13 Sep 2010
News

Harvard Business School Welcomes Nine Entrepreneurs-in-Residence

19 Nov 2020
Video

Music, Medicine, and Happiness

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Creativity Maze

creative people. When asked what makes the difference between creative scientists and those who are less creative, the Nobel-prizewinning physicist Arthur Schawlow said, "The labor-of-love aspect is important. The most successful... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa Amabile

26 Oct 2018
News

HBS Entrepreneurs Shine at Rock 100 Summit

Research Summary

Managerial Decision Analysis

By: David E. Bell

David E. Bell and Arthur Schleifer, Jr. are concluding a multiyear project aimed at producing more field-oriented case material for the Managerial Economics course, specifically, materials on decision, data, and risk analysis. A series of case- and textbooks (with... View Details

Article

Is It Time for Auditor Independence Yet?

By: M. H. Bazerman and D. A. Moore

Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been corrupted by the incentives auditors face to please their clients. We stated that even honest auditors were incapable of independence within the current regulatory... View Details

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Change; Crime and Corruption; Customer Satisfaction; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Failure; Motivation and Incentives