Accounting Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Read the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2004
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One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

by the industry we regulate. So this was a historic moment to come into this job. In addition, the SEC itself recently had been through some tough times, so it seemed like the agency was in need of new leadership. Not long after you... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

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Shaila Ittycheria

answers for urgent business issues, she also found a deeper perspective on the meaning of leadership that she had not anticipated. A particular Leadership and Corporate Accountability class stands out for her, when Shaila and her... View Details

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Corporate Strategy Course - Project Resources

back to 1993. It is available through Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS). Individual View Details

01 Aug 2002
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HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details

13 Jul 2011
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China Boot Camp

export-driven economy to one centered around knowledge industries and services and a growing consumer class. “It took a week or so to recover afterward, but I wouldn’t have wanted it any other way,” HBS associate professor Suraj... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Apr 2012
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Just Compensation

years, we developed a model—the Alignment Model—that provides a market standard against which to analyze a company’s pay relative to its performance,” Ferracone says. “So, for a given company, in terms of its current revenue size, its View Details

Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

24 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 24, 2008

Patenting on the Rate, Quality, and Direction of (Public) Research Output Authors: Pierre Azoulay, Waverly Ding, and Toby E. Stuart Periodical: Journal of Industrial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the influence of faculty... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1953 (Revised December 2012)
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Bramos Printing Company

A printing company, founded in 2000 as a one-man-job printing firm, is experiencing rapid growth together with a move and modernization of its facilities. Presents a problem in depreciation. View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Accounting; Service Industry

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Deborah A. Farrington

assets under management, in the U.S. In an industry where just six percent of the partners in venture capital firms are women, finding a successful firm run by a woman is more than unusual. But unusual is nothing new for Farrington.... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Harnessing the Tools of the Digital Age

take advantage of them and do amazingly well, but most of our organizations—in every single industry across every single economy—grow linearly and not exponentially. That means we need to change the structure of our organizations.... View Details

Keywords: April White

October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)

By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney

The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied... View Details

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05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

are entire industries that have been created to help avoid paying taxes and find creative ways around compensating people, he said. "There's a lot of aiding and abetting that goes on in this kind of environment and I think it's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

and weigh the consequences of each approach. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309056 Sub-Prime Crisis and Fair Value Accounting Harvard Business School Case 109-031 This case examines the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2003
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Bottom-Line Discrepancies

particular, the changing nature of employee compensation. By taking these items into account, one could reconcile tax returns with accounting statements. In the last decade, however, a huge, unexplained difference between the two methods... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

18 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018

forthcoming Academy of Management Journal Ideological Misfit? Political Affiliation and Employee Departure in the Private-Equity Industry By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Though organizations are increasingly active... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

together a team—a very capable team, like you would if you were launching a new product—who will be focused on designing a plan and a strategy around how are you going to make these improvements and how you're going to do it at scale. And then you’ve got to hold that... View Details

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

to Choice. Under positive-sum competition, all restrictions to choice at the disease or treatment level would disappear, including network restrictions and approvals of referrals. Reasonable co-pays and large deductibles combined with medical savings View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

March 2012 (Revised December 2014)
Case

Schön Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Mary L. Witkowski and Jessica A. Hohman

The case illustrates how a leading German hospital group has invested deeply in the measurement of patient-level outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)... View Details