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- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
external compliance pressure in their domestic institutional environment, when their buyers take a cooperative approach to monitoring, and when their auditors are highly trained. We find, further, that a cooperative approach to monitoring... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
employment history includes experience in investment banking, auditing, or private equity/venture capital. On average, we find that former auditors are significantly more likely to impair goodwill. However, further investigation reveals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Erika Sanchez
Boeing’s Enterprise Auditor Program “gave me broad exposure to different functions, from finance and program management to quality control and investor relations.” “A whole new level you can’t even imagine.” At Boeing, a mentor encouraged... View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
really seemed like the perfect storm where I would have the backing of the auditor general, who knows and has seen some of what’s going on in Scranton, where you still have this graft and this nepotism and this patronage network that has... View Details
- 08 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform
Finally, we recommend that the external auditor problems can only be solved through a major change in the relation between auditors and the companies they audit. This may be achieved by making the audit... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Tim Keller, Heavy Metal Mayor
state auditor before running for mayor, and cites Keller’s belief in heavy metal music for its capacity to bring people from varied backgrounds together—particularly in the Southwest. “Despite a reputation for metal skewing Anglo, it... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
performance. Publisher's link: https://hbr.org/2015/01/the-truth-about-csr Working Papers Auditor Lobbying on Accounting Standards By: Allen, Abigail M., Karthik Ramanna, and Sugata Roychowdhury Abstract—We examine how Big N auditors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
through reduction of firm variability, we do not find this offsetting beneficial effect to be strong. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2252200 What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2378899 Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Supply chain View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
2005), the former state auditor of New Mexico, who was elected mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico in November; Margaret Busse (MBA 2001), who is running for Massachusetts state senate; Adem Bunkeddeko (MBA 2017), who is running for a US... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea Hugill Abstract—Outsourcing firms increasingly rely on social auditors to provide strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
Arthur Andersen, stated in a written testimony that "the future of the [accounting] profession is bright and will remain bright —as long as the commission does not force us into an outdated role trapped in the old economy. Unfortunately, the proposed rule [on... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
for Auditor Independence Yet? Authors:M.H. Bazerman and D.A. Moore Publication:Accounting, Organizations and Society (in press) Abstract Well before the collapse of Enron and Arthur Andersen, we argued that the auditing system had been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
problems we’re now facing, including unfunded pension obligations. It has done nothing to stop corporations from making promises to their employees and shareholders without the resources to back them up. Extensive reform is necessary. To be effective, View Details
- 18 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 18
of interest (Experiment 6). Non-Audit Services and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from 1978-1980 Authors:Kevin Koh, Shiva Rajgopal, and Suraj Srinivasan Publication:Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We provide evidence for the long-standing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
multiple charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, and tax fraud. More recently, there’s the Scranton School Board. In October 2017, a scathing 107-page report from the state auditor general for July 2012 to June 2016 uncovered... View Details
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
short run versus large costs of unknowable certainty in the future. As examples of predictable surprises, they suggest such things as the rise of terrorism, compromises of auditor independence (and its implications for the general decline... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
University of California law professor Jodi Short, and HBS doctoral student Andrea Hugill examined factors such as whether it was more effective to send the same auditors back to a company or send new View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors — along with his 24-year... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
at five gallons, even as the gas continued to flow, you wouldn't drive away without paying for the whole tank. "This was about doing the right thing," says Thompson. "Pride and integrity go hand in hand with me." Two years later, the company View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni