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- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
some other parts of the Group had not had an internal audit or compliance function at all. By comparison, at Enron or Siemens, for example, compliance and control functions existed while the wrongdoing was...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
related systems: incentives, risk management and control, accounting, human capital, and culture. The worst firms had lethal combinations of strong incentives, weak control and risk management, flawed internal and external accounting, low...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization - Recruiting
anti-racism practices in your organizations,” Manso-Brown said. “Setting aside time every other week or once a month to engage as a group with the same materials, learn, and discuss is a central part of this work.” Audit Your Policies “Do...
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- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
communication but also to less experimentation and less information collection. When two firms that are each internally homogenous but different from each other, merge, the above results translate to specific predictions how the change in...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
testimonies in court documents, sources that were not yet available for earlier books on Enron. In addition, he interviewed former Enron executives and acquired internal Enron documents, which extended and deepened his research....
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Browse All topics Accounting Audits (3) Accounting (118) Acquisition (20) Activity Based Costing and Management (2) Adaptation (7) Adoption (3) Advertising Campaigns (6) Advertising (76) Agency Theory (3) Age (2) Agreements and...
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- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance". Her research on more than seventy audit and consulting teams—combining survey data, hundreds of interviews, and direct observation at meetings—reveals insights into...
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by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- December 2010
- Article
The Case for Professional Boards
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States...
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Financial Institutions;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Failure;
Accounting Audits;
Quality;
Behavior;
Legal Liability;
Experience and Expertise;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Performance Effectiveness;
United States
Pozen, Robert C. "The Case for Professional Boards." Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010).
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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni
customers/clients, strategic alliances, international opportunities, and/or new technologies. +–Board Bio Template Interested in joining a board of directors? In addition to your resume, you will also need a board bio to showcase how your...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
internal ideation program, the Business Innovation for Growth (BIG) Accelerator. When Raviv Zoller became the CEO of ICL in 2018, he recruited Croitoru, then his Chief of Staff, to help embed a culture of innovation throughout the...
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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Reporting” with Gerardo Pérez-Cavazos and Caspar David Peter. Jonas Heese: Runner-up for the 2022 International Corporate Governance Society (ICGS) Annual Conference Best Paper Award for “Does Information Technology Reduce Corporate...
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1.10 Cross-Registration - MBA
transcript. A student may elect to cross-register for an additional class in one or both terms above the required 30 credits. Courses that would be useful but are not directly management-related, such as language courses for students intending to go into View Details
- 09 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?
participate. In a second paper on self-policing, we are now looking at what happens after firms self-disclose. We speculate that two things may happen: Self-disclosing firms' compliance records may actually improve because of the internal...
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by Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
Watson Publication:In Effective Auditing for Corporates: Key Developments in Practice and Procedures, edited by Joe Oringel, 161-178. London: Bloomsbury Information Ltd., 2012 Abstract In the wake of the recent financial crisis,...
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Carmen Nobel
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Sustainability | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) research and analysis products from MSCI. Go To Database Governance and Regulation MSCI GMI Ratings https://www.library.hbs.edu/find/databases/msci-gmi-ratings Corporate governance data, including corporate governance and...
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Entertainment & Media | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
international market information for media usage, music, television and publishing. Media specific content covers TV Networks, Broadcasting (radio & TV) and Film and TV Programming. Statista...
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Is AI Coming for Your Job?
necessarily be true statements. "THESE TOOLS ARE KNOWN TO 'MAKE THINGS UP' (OR TO 'HALLUCINATE') AND, THEREFORE, CANNOT BE USED WITHOUT AUDITS FOR CORRECTNESS." These tools are known to "make things up" (or to "hallucinate") and,...
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News & Commentary - Advancing Racial Equity
events like our ongoing Managing Diversity series. Social Media Digest Standing Together: December 11-January 21 21 JANUARY 2020 | Harvard Business School The latest conversations on race and diversity from our community, including Professor Julia Austin on the...
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- September 2020
- Case
An Introduction to Money Laundering: 'The Hunter'
By: Eugene Soltes, Guilhem Ros and Grace Liu
Money laundering schemes disguise the criminal origins of an estimated 2% to 5% of the world’s gross domestic product. Money laundering not only enables criminals to escape detection, but may also be used to finance further criminal operations including terrorism. This...
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Crime and Corruption;
Accounting Audits;
Financial Reporting;
Financial Institutions;
Banks and Banking;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Governance Controls;
International Relations;
National Security;
Ethics;
Accounting Industry;
Banking Industry;
United States;
Europe
Soltes, Eugene, Guilhem Ros, and Grace Liu. "An Introduction to Money Laundering: 'The Hunter'." Harvard Business School Case 121-011, September 2020.