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  • 11 Aug 2014
  • News

How to be Sherlock Holmes in the boardroom

  • 03 Apr 2006
  • What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

Summing Up The global corporation and globalization in general are poised to achieve new and different heights, if responses to this month's column are to be believed. As Greg Bownik put it, "for globalization to peak businesses... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • February 2013
  • Case

Diamond Foods, Inc.

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Tim Gray
The Diamonds Foods, Inc. case describes the major accounting blow up at the company in late 2011 that was triggered by a report by Off Wall Street, a prominent short selling research firm. Diamond Foods, a high flying growth company in 2011, grew from a walnut farmers'... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Restatements; Accounting Scandal; Accounting; Financial Analysis; Financial Statement Analysis; Short Selling; Revenue Recognition; Board Of Directors; Audit Committees; Auditing; Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Agribusiness; Accrual Accounting; Earnings Management; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Revenue; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; California; Cambridge
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  • October 2003 (Revised April 2005)
  • Case

Innovation Corrupted: The Rise and Fall of Enron

By: Malcolm S. Salter
Presents an historical overview of Enron's rise and fall and summarizes what is currently known about (1) the evolution of Enron's business model, (2) the organizational processes Enron officials relied on to drive and monitor the business, (3) emergent behavior... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Behavior; Governing and Advisory Boards; Success; Transformation; Failure; Business Processes; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 26 Apr 2017
  • News

A Better Way to Tax U.S. Businesses

  • September 2010 (Revised August 2011)
  • Background Note

A Chronology of Integrated Reporting

By: Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus
This technical note traces the development of integrated reporting through published materials, research, and the formation of various committees. Readers will gain an understanding of how the topics of nonfinancial information, sustainable development, corporate... View Details
Keywords: Integrated Corporate Reporting; Corporate Disclosure; Product Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues
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Why Compliance Programs Fail: And How to Fix Them

By: Hui Chen and Eugene Soltes
Firms spend millions of dollars annually on whistle-blower hotlines, training, and other efforts to ensure adherence to laws, regulations, and company policies. Yet malfeasance remains entrenched in the corporate world. Why? Too many firms treat compliance as a... View Details
Keywords: Governance Compliance; Programs; Employees; Training; Performance Effectiveness; Measurement and Metrics
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    Robert Simons

    Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details

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    bias with naive beliefs. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each with a different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected penalties are rebated lump sum. When households have homogeneous present bias, , the... View Details
    • 08 Sep 2010
    • News

    Emerging Scholar Award

    • October 1993 (Revised June 1997)
    • Case

    Champion International

    By: David F. Hawkins
    Management must decide which first quarter's earnings numbers to report. The company is classified by its securities market as a "growth" company. The corporate controller prefers a quarterly earnings figure that represents a decline in earnings. View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Financial Reporting; Judgments; Leadership; Management Teams; Corporate Disclosure
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    • June 2013
    • Article

    Dysfunction in the Boardroom: Understanding the Persistent Gender Gap at the Highest Levels

    By: Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell
    The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level positions. Countries in the European Union are attempting to institute laws regarding the minimum... View Details
    Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Governing and Advisory Boards; Gender; United States; European Union
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    • November 1994 (Revised May 2002)
    • Case

    K-III: A Leveraged Build-Up

    By: George P. Baker III, Nicola Bamford and Nicolas Greenspan
    Explores the strategy, financing, and governance of a new type of organizational form, dubbed the Leveraged Build-Up by its inventor, Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. The company makes leveraged acquisitions of small publishing companies, managing them in a very... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Securities; Financial Management; Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Organizational Structure; Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Governance; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Publishing Industry
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    • July 2024
    • Case

    Board Director Dilemmas: Strategic Leadership

    By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti
    Professor John Michaels, a distinguished scholar of corporate strategy, has served on the Board of OmniCo, a diversified industrial giant, for four years. Three months ago, the Board appointed a new CEO, Andrew Bennett, to lead growth, develop a more cooperative... View Details
    Keywords: Board; Board Dynamics; Strategic Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Management Succession
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    • 24 Jan 2017
    • News

    CEOs Savor New Status in Trump's Washington

    • 02 Jan 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53646 January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review The New CEO Activists By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Though corporations have been lobbying the View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      David B. Yoffie

      Professor David B. Yoffie is a Baker Foundation Professor and the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. A member of the HBS faculty since 1981, Professor Yoffie received his... View Details

      Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; financial services; information; information technology industry; internet; retail financial services; semiconductor; soft drink; telecommunications; video games
      • 20 Jun 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

      background stories of organizations, Win-Win Corporations is an inspiring read into what makes companies great. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52757 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 Mar 2019
      • News

      The Dual-Purpose Playbook

        John D. Dionne

        John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details