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  • Research Summary

Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 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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  • 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
  • 24 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Building an IT Governance Committee

speaking, the IT expert serves much the same function as the certified financial expert on an audit committee. A CIO or CTO with solid experience in the management of IT qualifies; for example, the IT... View Details
Keywords: by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
  • 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
  • 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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  • 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
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1.9 Course Registration | MBA

September; January travel Program fee & travel costs (see details on financial aid eligibility in course description) Independent Projects Non-classroom credit; 1.5, 3, 4.5, or 6 credits. Maximum of 9 non-classroom credits in total toward... View Details
  • July 2002 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

Kendall Square Research Corporation (A) (Abridged)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and 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 forecasted higher earnings for 1993, then the company's revenue recognition... View Details
Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Standards; Accounting Audits; Computer Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Donella Rapier to Head External Relations

an audit senior manager in Boston. In that position, Rapier developed materials and conducted courses on a variety of accounting and auditing topics. This interest led in 1995 to a part-time faculty... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 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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  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage

to contribute financially to his family back home. Gonzalez has given much thought to the concept of leadership, in sports and in business, and describes it as “the glue for different opinions.” “Leaders need to listen and to value what... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; courage; sports; illness; cancer; international students; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 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
  • June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
  • Case

Amazon.com in the Year 2000

By: Krishna G. Palepu and Jeremy Cott
An analyst's critique of Amazon's prospectus from the perspective of its bond holders. View Details
Keywords: Bonds; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Governing and Advisory Boards; Internet and the Web; Forecasting and Prediction; Retail Industry
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  • 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
  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese Financial Services Agency (FSA)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 24, 2007

CEO must decide where to cut costs and how to convince creditors to give the company the time it needs to turn around. A bankruptcy reorganization is one option open to the company. Describes the audit recovery industry, the company's... 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
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IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog

IFC Financial Aid for a quick assessment to determine your eligibility and process or contact finaid@hbs.edu for more information. Enrollment: Limited to 45 MBA students (due to the nature of IFCs, auditing... View Details