Publications

01 Dec 2010
News

New Orleans Resonance

A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA ’05) moved to New York, intending to open a charter school. After Hurricane Katrina struck, New Orleans’s dire need compelled Kleban to decamp to Louisiana, where he founded New... View Details

Keywords: charter schools

July 2001 (Revised March 2002)
Case

Progressive Insurance: Disclosure Strategy

By: Amy P. Hutton and James Weber

Progressive Insurance had refused to play Wall Street's earning game. Progressive didn't manage reported earnings nor did management give guidance to analysts. Management then considered taking their unique disclosure strategy one step further to become the first to... View Details

Keywords: Earnings Management; Stocks; Corporate Disclosure; Insurance; Volatility; Insurance Industry; United States

01 Jun 2006
News

Getting on Board

corporate board consideration.” As you organize your campaign, Stautberg says, “It’s best to cast a wide net. Networking is essential,” she emphasizes. “Who knows you and respects your capabilities? If you have a positive relationship... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

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Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Strange Bedfellows

firms are well-governed. The actors in various corporate scandals, including Enron, Tyco, and Parmalat, were expert in exploiting the dual-tax system to manufacture accounting earnings. View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

Fast Answer

IFC: LA/Hollywood

fundamentals, press releases, transaction data, corporate filings, ownership profiles, and investment bank analyst research. See our Fast Answer "How do I find... View Details

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-005.pdf A Framework for Research on Corporate Accountability Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna Abstract This paper provides an... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Fall 2016
Article

The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring

By: Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel

Government agencies are increasingly turning to private, third-party monitors to inspect and assess regulated entities’ compliance with law. The integrity of these regulatory regimes rests on the validity of the information third-party monitors provide to regulators.... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Compliance; Compliance Policies; Conflict Of Interest; Independent Third Party; Inspection; Audit Quality; Auditor; Audit; Environment; Safety; Conflict of Interests; Working Conditions; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance Compliance; Accounting Audits

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01 Apr 2002
News

Breakthrough International Negotiation

Susan Rosegrant urge business leaders to learn from the lessons of negotiators who have helped to shape recent world history. Watkins, who teaches the popular HBS elective Corporate Diplomacy, worked with Rosegrant, a political case... View Details

Keywords: Michael Watkins; Susan Rosegrant; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Fast Answer

Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

companies. Also includes private equity information. Individual accounts needed. Please see More Info page for instructions. CB Insights & Industry Analytics CB Insights is a private company database that tracks global venture... View Details

June 2009
Case

The Role of the Audit Committee in Risk Oversight

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson

An audit committee chair considers how he can help his committee become more effective given the increasing regulatory demands on audit committees. He also wrestles with the lack of specificity in audit committee duties and whether his committee should take on... View Details

Keywords: Accounting Audits; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Laws and Statutes; Risk Management

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

flourished as did the nation’s social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

2016
Working Paper

Managers' Cultural Background and Disclosure Attributes

By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller, Patricia Naranjo and Gwen Yu

We examine how a manager’s ethnic cultural background affects managers’ communication with investors. Using a sample of earnings conference calls transcripts with 26,430 executives from 42 countries, we find that managers from ethnic groups that have a more... View Details

Keywords: Disclosure Tone; Individualism; Conference Calls; Ethnic Group; Management Style; Communication Intention and Meaning; Ethnicity; Corporate Disclosure; Financial Reporting

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05 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

accounting "reliability." Broadly, the evidence, by highlighting the influence of standard setters, can broaden our understanding of the political economy of standard setting beyond the role of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

includes start-up consulting, executive coaching and career counseling. Work Experience: High Tech, 20+ years (mostly start-ups, including UNIFI communications, Exit41, Elm Square Interactive; corporates include Verizon, Octel and Osram... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Manufacturing; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

arbitrariness of the set. Drawing on Gestalt psychology, we develop a conceptual account that predicts what will—and will not—act as a pseudo-set and defines the psychological process through which these pseudo-sets affect behavior,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in... View Details

October 2011 (Revised June 2013)
Case

Novo Nordisk: A Commitment to Sustainability

By: Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus

The case describes the early commitment of a European pharmaceutical company, Novo Nordisk, to integrated reporting. Novo Nordisk is one of the pioneers of integrated reporting and it emerged out of its commitment to a "Triple Bottom Line approach to managing the... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Business Ventures; Business or Company Management; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Business Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry