Publications

Educators

Purchase

September 1995 (Revised May 2002)
Supplement

Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (B), The

By: V.G. Narayanan and James D Evans

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Conflict and Resolution; Computer Industry

Purchase

spring 1995
Article

Moral Hazard in Repeated Professional Partnership

Keywords: Partners and Partnerships

December 1994
Case

AB SKA (Sweden)

By: David F. Hawkins, V.G. Narayanan and Robert L. Simons

A senior manager faces three accounting and control decisions related to a new R&D project: to expense or capitalize, how to implement management control over the R&D function, and how to use activity-based cost drivers for product costing. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management Practices and Processes; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Research and Development; Sweden

spring 1994
Article

Gulf Canada Ltd.

By: V.G. Narayanan and Steve Huddart

Keywords: Energy Industry; Canada

1994
Article

An Analysis of Auditor Liability Rules

Keywords: Accounting Audits

Teaching Interest

Accounting for Managers

I teach financial and managerial accounting to executives and MBA students. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Managerial Accounting; Financial Accounting

Research Summary

Bad-debts provisioning at banks

I am very interested in studying loan-loss reserves and the provisioning for bad-debts at banks. View Details

Keywords: Loan Evaluation; Bad Debt Expense; Banking Industry

Teaching Interest

Case Method Teaching

I like to offer seminars on Case Method Teaching to professors who would like to improve their case-method teaching. View Details

Keywords: Cases; Education Industry; India

Research Summary

Control in Inter-organizational Settings

Professor Narayanan is studying how franchise owners use measurement tools such as the Balanced Scorecard and mystery shopper survyes to mitigate incentive and information frictions that arise between franchisors and franchisees. He is also studying control issues that... View Details

Research Summary

Cost Management and Management Control Systems in Hospitals

Hospitals tend not to have very good cost accounting and control systems. More broadly, there is enormous opportunity for managing costs and aligning incentives in the health care industry. I am studying how cost accounting methods can be used to... View Details

Research Summary

Designing Incentives

Professor Narayanan is studying how to design effective incentive systems for executives and members of the Board of Directors. View Details

Teaching Interest

Online Teaching

I teach introductory financial reporting online through HBS Online. View Details

Keywords: Online

Teaching Interest

Overview

I teach accounting to MBA students, executives, and Harvard Extension School students. I teach topics from both financial and managerial accounting. I also train professors in teaching by the case method. View Details

Keywords: Financial Accounting; Management Accounting; Case Method Teaching; Corporate Governance; Customer Relationship Management; AI and Machine Learning; Health Industry; Education Industry; Banking Industry; India; North America

Research Summary

Using Cost Information In Pricing Decisions