Auditor - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

and compensation committees didn't do their jobs responsibly. But boards can only do so much — their members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

17 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 17

By: Short, Jodi L., Michael W. Toffel, and Andrea R. Hugill Abstract—Outsourcing firms seeking to avoid reputational spillovers that can arise from dangerous, illegal, and unethical behavior at supply chain factories increasingly rely on private social View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2002
News

Bad Times for Business

members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for information. One problem in all this was that the boards weren't getting appropriate information and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsiegel/SiegelLichtSchwartz_EFDI_20120310.pdf Daily Horizons: Evidence of Narrow Bracketing in Judgments from 9,000 MBA Admission Interviews Authors:U. Simonsohn and F. Gino Publication:Psychological Science (forthcoming) Abstract Many... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 17

natural experiment that required agents to describe commissions for a specific product caused agents to shift recommendations to an alternative product, which had even higher commissions but no disclosure requirement. We do find some scope for market discipline to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

information is to be exchanged over whiskey, let us get it rather than give it.” “An auditor is like a tailor: He can make a fat man look thinner or taller or younger.” “You will get nowhere if you do not inspire people.” “Always remember... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

UK-based program wasn’t keen to send its auditors to a war zone. Mercy Corps staff, positioned there since 1986, bridged the gap by providing pages of documentation attesting to the farmers’ ability to meet the Fairtrade requirements.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

promoted young executives—often around thirty years of age—to run whole companies. The chief auditor of one of the premier machine engineering companies in Germany in the early 1920s was barely thirty years of age. Thyssen kept trying to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208026 KPMG: A Near-Death Experience Harvard Business School Case 408-073 Describes the way in which "Big Four" auditor KPMG dealt with an indictment stemming... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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