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May 2015
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Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Aida Sijamic Wahid and Gwen Yu

We study the frequency of restatements by foreign firms listed on U.S. exchanges. We find that the restatement rate of U.S. listed foreign firms is significantly lower than that of comparable U.S. firms and that the difference depends on the firm's home country... View Details

Keywords: Accounting Restatements; Home Country Enforcement; Earnings Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Law; Financial Reporting; Financial Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

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08 Nov 2012
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Admitting Mistakes: Home Country Effect on the Reliability of Restatement Reporting

Keywords: by Suraj Srinivasan, Aida Sijamic Wahid & Gwen Yu

07 Sep 2021
News

Growing Home

to the nation of Japan and the people in Japan to make the country a better place. The third kokorozashi I have is to make Mito a better city through the Mito Downtown Rebirth Project. DM: Why is it important for us to not lose cities... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown

started InMobi? Naveen Tewari: I always felt that the country has had the ability, the technological prowess, the entrepreneurial spirit to be able to build something. And we have had scenarios of, you know, a few companies getting built... View Details

fall 2010
Article

Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America

By: Faisal Z. Ahmed, Laura Alfaro and Noel Maurer

The re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected repayment). The problem originates... View Details

Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Debt Securities; Motivation and Incentives; Markets; Equity; Banking Industry; Latin America

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01 Aug 2002
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Wine Country Reunion

accomplishments. Highlights included a vineyard tour, winetastings, fine dining, and a reception at the home of Peggy and Timm Crull. Pictured above are reunion organizers Joe Fitzpatrick, Don Moffitt, and Timm Crull, who chaired the... View Details

23 Jan 2020
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Bringing Education Back Home

Edgar Kelly-Garcia (MBA 1998) is founder and dean of Universidad of San Sebastian in Mexico. In this interview from June 2018 he discusses the origins of the idea to launch a school in one of the poorest areas of his country along with... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

particularly the Gulf economically, said Vogel, yet only countries around the periphery of the Arabian peninsula have joined so far. "The big elephant," he said, is Saudi Arabia. It is nowhere near being able to join the WTO,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2019
Blog Post

Coming Home to HBS

husband and I were starting a family at the same time I was starting my MBA, I applied only to schools that met the following two criteria: Located where my husband would have been able to relocate with his job; Was a top school. Since we were moving out of our View Details

May 2010
Case

Clayton Industries, Inc.: Peter Arnell, Country Manager for Italy

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Benjamin H. Barlow

Clayton Industries, a sixty-year-old U.S.-based firm in the HVAC industry (heating, ventilation, and air conditioning), with nearly $1 billion in revenues, has gradually built a presence in a number of countries, including several in Europe. Peter Arnell, previously... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Sales; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Wisconsin; Italy; United Kingdom

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26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

[PDF]. To start, responding strategically to these changes requires a reconceptualization of what a corporate home is, says Desai. "Managers need to make conscious choices about how to unbundle the activities that have traditionally been... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2010
Working Paper

Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

By: Geoffrey Jones

This working paper offers a longitudinal and descriptive analysis of the strategies of multinationals from developed countries in developing countries. The central argument is that strategies were shaped by the trade-off between opportunity and risk. Three broad... View Details

Keywords: History; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Business and Government Relations

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Multinational Strategies and Developing Countries in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

24 Apr 2014
News

Positive impact that hits home

of a fellowship. “I still think about money in our local currency,” Seck Mercier says, “and with the two years’ cost of Harvard Business School, in my country I could buy a lot of real estate.” Seck Mercier says her fellowship means... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Fast Lane to Country Lane

TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to launching her husband’s... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores

Article

Cut from the Same Cloth: Similarly Dishonest Individuals Across Countries

By: Heather E. Mann, Ximena Garcia-Rada, Lars Hornuf, Juan Tafurt and Dan Ariely

Norms for dishonest behaviors vary across societies, but whether this variation is related to differences in individuals’ core tendencies toward dishonesty is unknown. We compare individual dishonesty on a novel task across 10 participant samples from five countries... View Details

Keywords: Morality; Decision-making; Dishonesty; Cultural Psychology; Country; Decision Making; Culture

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December 2001
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Enforcing Property Rights Through Reputation: Groups in Mexico's Early Industrialization, 1878-1913

By: Noel Maurer and Tridib Sharma

Keywords: History; Rights; Groups and Teams; Reputation; Property; Developing Countries and Economies; Mexico

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To explore how companies enforce management control systems, we examine whether social relationships influence the severity and consistency of punishments for main perpetrators of corporate economic crimes. We find wide variation in rates of dismissal and... View Details

02 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

We have created a housing hybrid in America, refashioning the single-family home into a mini debtors' prison. Almost 11 million dot the landscape. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, over 50 percent of homeowners live in one. “Understandably, most... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
Case

Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations

By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and David Lane

Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted toward expatriates, in Singapore but rapidly moved the base of operations to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion.... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Renting or Rental; Corporate Governance; Global Strategy; Failure; Singapore; Hong Kong

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