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- February 2020
- Case
Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (A)
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Tonia Labruyere
The case discusses the strategy of DER SPIEGEL, the leading news magazine in Germany, in the aftermath of the discovery of a fake reporting scandal. It had come to light that one of DER SPIEGEL’s own reporters had falsified and made up entire articles for years,... View Details
- February 2020
- Teaching Note
Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (A), (B) and (C)
By: Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese
- February 2020
- Supplement
Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (C): Organizational Changes
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Tonia Labruyere
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- February 2020
- Supplement
Fake News at DER SPIEGEL (B): The Commission’s Recommendations
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Tonia Labruyere
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- October 2019
- Teaching Note
Regtech at HSBC
By: Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese
Teaching Note for HBS No 120-046. View Details
- October 2019
- Teaching Note
Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations
By: Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese
- October 2019
- Case
Regtech at HSBC
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
Mark Cooke, Global Head of Operational Risk, needed to decide between a traditional regulatory control system and a new regtech system to manage non-financial risks.
Non-financial risks failures such as money laundering and tax evasion had cost HSBC billions of... View Details
- September 2019
- Case
Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
Stephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised December 2023)
- Case
Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A)
By: Jonas Heese, Suraj Srinivasan and Julia Kelley
This case describes the accounting fraud at Tesco Stores Limited (TSL), which was discovered by a senior accountant in TSL’s finance department. The accountant was concerned about TSL’s handling of commercial income, which, according to the accountant, overstated... View Details
- September 2019 (Revised February 2024)
- Teaching Note
Accounting Fraud at Tesco Stores (A), (B), & (C)
By: Jonas Heese and Suraj Srinivasan
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 120-032, 120-033, and 120-034. View Details
- September 2019
- Article
The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews
By: Miguel Duro, Jonas Heese and Gaizka Ormazabal
This paper studies the effect of the public disclosure of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) comment-letter reviews (CLs) on firms’ financial reporting. We exploit a major change in the SEC’s disclosure policy: in 2004, the SEC decided to make its CLs... View Details
- August 2019
- Case
Creating Accountability in Afghanistan
By: Jonas Heese, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, Eugene F. Soltes and Grace Liu
By early 2019, the United States had contributed $132 billion to the Afghan reconstruction. John Sopko, in his role as the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction (SIGAR), was in charge of providing accountability for U.S. aid funding. Sopko’s oversight... View Details
- June 2019
- Article
Fraud Allegations and Government Contracting
By: Jonas Heese and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos
This paper examines whether fraud allegations affect firms’ contracting with the government. Using a dataset of whistleblower allegations brought under the False Claims Act against firms accused of defrauding the government, we find that federal agencies do not reduce... View Details
- Summer 2019
- Article
The Political Influence of Voters' Interests on SEC Enforcement
By: Jonas Heese
I examine whether political influence as a response to voters’ interest in employment levels is reflected in the enforcement actions of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). I find that large employers are less likely to experience SEC enforcement actions.... View Details
- May 2019
- Supplement
Fair Value Accounting at Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (A) and (B)
By: Jonas Heese and Suraj Srinivasan
- April 2019 (Revised January 2022)
- Teaching Note
Coup or Crime? The Case of Carlos Ghosn
By: Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese
Teaching Note for HBS No. 119-096. View Details
- April 2019
- Case
Coup or Crime? The Case of Carlos Ghosn
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and Puneet Brar
This case explores the interplay of global corporations, management styles, and local traditions through the high profile arrest of auto industry icon, Carlos Ghosn, in November 2018. The case allows students to debate opposing theories that led to the arrest and... View Details
- March 2019
- Supplement
Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE, Instructor Spreadsheet
By: Jonas Heese