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IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

Dates: Arrive, Tuesday, January 6; Depart Friday, January 16, 2026 Course Fee: $3,500 (see note on financial aid) Immersive Field Courses : IFCs require a firm commitment and carry a financial obligation.... View Details
  • July 1989 (Revised April 2001)
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Kanthal (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Multinational company needs an improved cost system to determine the profitability of individual customer orders. Its strategy is to have significant sales and profitability growth without adding additional administrative and support people. The new cost system... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Earnings Management; Cost Management; Financial Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Business or Company Management; Customer Relationship Management; Sales; Business Strategy; Profit; Electronics Industry
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  • 2009
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India Transformed: Insights from the Firm Level 1988–2007

By: Laura Alfaro and Anusha Chari
Using firm-level data, this paper analyzes the transformation of India's economic structure following the implementation of economic reforms. The focus of the study is on publicly listed and unlisted firms from across a wide spectrum of manufacturing and services... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Transformation; Economics; Ownership; Assets; Sales; Profit; Stock Shares; Private Sector; Investment Return; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; India
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  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

foreign-born financial specialists-immigrants-solved the fiscal crisis and set the United States on a path to long-term economic success. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Thomas K. McCraw analyzes the skills and worldliness of Alexander... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in the principal's leadership and better governance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2011
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Knowing the Score

ship’s. The treasure hunt to isolate ESPN’s actual financial picture was greatly aided by what I’d gleaned from accounting and other financial reporting classes. But perhaps... View Details
Keywords: James Andrew Miller; Organizational Behavior; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 25 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

others, often foreign pharmaceutical companies, Orval (an oral contraceptive); Isodril, a coronary drug; estrogens for menopausal treatment; a new antihistamine and other antibiotics; and infant nutrition formulas. By 1979 prescription drugs View Details
Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

http://www.nber.org/confer/2009/EIf09/summary.html The Learning Effects of Monitoring Authors: Dennis Campbell, Marc Epstein, and F. Asís Martínez Jerez Publication: The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2015
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Truth in Lending

Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

departments, passing on important knowledge and providing helpful evaluations and feedback. The operating managers' own evaluations, development plans, and promotions, in turn, depend on how successfully they nurture their subordinates. Line managers are held View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves
  • 01 Dec 2011
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Faculty Books

organizational performance is substantial and quantifiable. An effective business culture can account for up to half of the performance differential between organizations in the same business. Drawing on field research and case studies,... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Elective Curriculum: Course Descriptions Last Updated: 01 Aug 2025 By Unit View by Unit | View by Course Title | View by Faculty | Print View Accounting & Management Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits The Anatomy of Fraud... View Details
  • March 2011
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What Do Dividends Tell Us About Earnings Quality

By: Douglas Skinner and Eugene F. Soltes
Over the past 30 years, there have been significant changes in the distribution of earnings (cross-sectional variation has increased, with increasing left skewness) as well as in corporate payout policy, with many fewer firms paying dividends and the emergence of stock... View Details
Keywords: Distribution; Business Earnings; Change; Policy; Stocks; Investment Return; Performance Consistency; Quality
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Thin Political Markets: The Soft Underbelly of Capitalism

By: Karthik Ramanna
"Thin political markets" are the processes through which some of the most complex and critical institutions of our capitalist system are determined—e.g., our accounting-standards infrastructure. In thin political markets, corporate managers are largely... View Details
Keywords: Business And Society; Lobbying; Sustainability; Leadership; Economic Systems; Accounting; Business and Community Relations; Financial Institutions; Business and Government Relations
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  • 01 Jun 2024
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Action Plan: Role-Play

When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune; photo by Christina Gandolfo; detective; private investigator; undercover; acting
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

stock price doing OK? "It was a 10-minute conversation, and that was that," Kaufman says. These days, the assessment is usually much more wide-spread, taking into account both quantitative and qualitative metrics other than just... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

accounting from the University of Chicago. He’ll tap his interests in corporate accountability and disclosure to help him teach the first-year required course Financial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 16 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 16

the positive accounting literature's current understanding of properties of financial reports to develop three hypotheses on corporate accountability reporting. I argue that an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Introduction Prelude to the Option Pricing Model The Formula The Spread and Adoption of Option Pricing Models The Significance and Consequences of Financial Models Selected Bibliography Lenders to the Exhibit Additional Information About... View Details