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  • April 1994 (Revised November 1998)
  • Case

Kendall Square Research Corporation (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. As sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993, the company sold stock to the public for the first time and analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993. However, when the company's revenue... View Details
Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Standards; Accounting Audits; Computer Industry
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Bruns, William J., Jr. "Kendall Square Research Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 194-068, April 1994. (Revised November 1998.)
  • November 2006 (Revised March 2008)
  • Case

Kendall Square Research Corporation

By: F. Warren McFarlan
Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993 and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993, then the company's revenue recognition... View Details
Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Standards; Accounting Audits; Computer Industry
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McFarlan, F. Warren. "Kendall Square Research Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 307-010, November 2006. (Revised March 2008.)
  • 25 Jul 2003
  • Keynote Speech

The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley and the NYSE Rules on American Corporate Governance

By: W. Carl Kester
Keywords: Stocks; Corporate Governance; Accounting Audits; United States
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Kester, W. Carl. "The Impact of Sarbanes-Oxley and the NYSE Rules on American Corporate Governance." Nomura School of Advanced Management, Tokyo, Japan, July 25, 2003. (Reunion speaker.)
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

point to history to make their case. The country's first major financial crisis—the Great Depression—led to the Securities Acts of 1933 and 1934, which effectively regulated the stock market for nearly seventy years, noted Goldschmid.... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
  • 08 Jul 2002
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Carried the Concept of Alignment Too Far?

Financial and Accounting Standards Board, new New York Stock Exchange rulings regarding board composition and other matters, and a Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 14 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

should be in place so this disconnect cannot be exploited by the corporation or the manager. In financial reporting, auditing and reporting conservatism are two such technologies. 2. Corporate accountability... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199694945.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199694945-e-026 September 2014 Journal of Financial Economics The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to the formal banking system. In the period 2000 through 2005, there were approximately 30 million checking accounts reportedly closed for excessive overdrafting. Closure rates jointly reflect... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

auditing and particularly large amounts of consulting services from the same supplier. And now, by means of Section 404, it will: (1 require senior executives to certify that their companies have financial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 30 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Computer Security is For Managers, Too

each warrants. A bank, for instance, might assign the greatest amount of protection to the database that stores its customers' financial information. For a pharmaceutical company, it might be the research servers that hold data on... View Details
Keywords: by Robert D. Austin & Christopher A.R. Darby
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

Watson Publication:In Effective Auditing for Corporates: Key Developments in Practice and Procedures, edited by Joe Oringel, 161-178. London: Bloomsbury Information Ltd., 2012 Abstract In the wake of the recent View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

which fueled a financial crisis in the U.S. and beyond. The case study examines New Century's business model and accounting practices and focuses on the role of management, audit committee, and external... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Oct 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

revenue by outside audit firms) without providing much or sometimes any guidance about how to improve actual mission performance. I'd like to see a renewed focus on mission performance rather than on View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

delivery—for free. If you run the video store, you worry about the customer who comes in specifically to rent The Matrix but leaves annoyed and empty handed because the video isn't on the shelves today. According to Harvard Business School professor V.G. Narayanan, a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

anticorruption ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption risk ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have recently faced a corruption enforcement action, employ a Big Four View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Jan 2018
  • What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

systems." Citing Robert Clarke, past Dean of Harvard Law School, Joe recalled Clarke noted that "Boards could be stewards of the corporation, looking after its long term health, or compliance officers using the Board's time to View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 27 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

suboptimal, and they used these insights to start developing their own solutions. It was a real privilege when a Big 4 audit firm that participated in my research gave me direct access to its clients. Across an array of clients I... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

changes had any impact in the lead-up to the financial crisis. HBS Associate Professor Suraj Srinivasan and Harvard Law School Professor John C. Coates leverage the benefit of hindsight to assess research findings from over 120 papers in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • 26 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 26

by $2.1 trillion in 2010 dollars. By either measure, cash flows received from abroad exceeded 160% of net investments, implying that foreign investment over these periods was dynamically efficient. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w17202 Non-Audit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide open, with some disastrous results. I think all the attention being paid to the current problems—particularly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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