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- 16 Feb 2011
- News
What to Ask Your Company's Auditors
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
Monitoring global supply chains
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
a microphone, and an extensive record collection with money earned working for their father. Ferguson moonlighted as a DJ in college on the weekends to earn extra money but never considered a career in the music business. Instead, he worked as an View Details
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
really seemed like the perfect storm where I would have the backing of the auditor general, who knows and has seen some of what’s going on in Scranton, where you still have this graft and this nepotism and this patronage network that has... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Tim Keller, Heavy Metal Mayor
state auditor before running for mayor, and cites Keller’s belief in heavy metal music for its capacity to bring people from varied backgrounds together—particularly in the Southwest. “Despite a reputation for metal skewing Anglo, it... View Details
- 08 Dec 2017
- News
Harvard Business Grads Are Putting Politics Above Profits
2005), the former state auditor of New Mexico, who was elected mayor of Albuquerque, New Mexico in November; Margaret Busse (MBA 2001), who is running for Massachusetts state senate; Adem Bunkeddeko (MBA 2017), who is running for a US... View Details
Keywords: politics
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
problems we’re now facing, including unfunded pension obligations. It has done nothing to stop corporations from making promises to their employees and shareholders without the resources to back them up. Extensive reform is necessary. To be effective, View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
multiple charges of bribery, conspiracy, racketeering, and tax fraud. More recently, there’s the Scranton School Board. In October 2017, a scathing 107-page report from the state auditor general for July 2012 to June 2016 uncovered... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
with shareholders, rewarded short–term “earnings management” and beautified balance sheets. These tactics were facilitated by cooperative accountants who didn’t want to risk losing the profitable consulting business of the companies they were auditing. Conflict of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Lawyers for former CEO Jeffrey Skilling (MBA ’79) argued that his 2006 conviction on nineteen counts of fraud, conspiracy, insider trading, and lying to auditors — along with his 24-year... View Details
- 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
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
African studies, in 1997, when she took a position as an internal auditor with Catholic Relief Services. In that capacity, she and her team conducted thorough reviews of the agency’s health, agriculture, and micro-enterprise programs in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 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
- 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