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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
which fueled a financial crisis in the U.S. and beyond. The case study examines New Century's business model and accounting practices and focuses on the role of management, audit committee, and external auditors in the problems at New...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2017
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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...
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Jennifer Myers
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
promoted young executives—often around thirty years of age—to run whole companies. The chief auditor of one of the premier machine engineering companies in Germany in the early 1920s was barely thirty years of age. Thyssen kept trying to...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
from happening in the future. But it is wise to hire external security auditors periodically to benchmark your security standards and practices against industry state-of-the-art, once you have solid operational practices in place....
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- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208026 KPMG: A Near-Death Experience Harvard Business School Case 408-073 Describes the way in which "Big Four" auditor KPMG dealt with an indictment stemming...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
and compensation committees didn't do their jobs responsibly. But boards can only do so much — their members, after all, are part-timers. And while they're expected to be independent, they have to rely heavily on managers and auditors for...
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by Garry Emmons
- 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....
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
of which people didn’t really like doing, anyway. And the definition of “routine” keeps getting raised. Pretty soon, if you’re the financial auditor running all sorts of checks and balances on the financial statements, that gets...
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of cross-registrants. Auditors are not permitted. Copyright © 2024 President & Fellows of Harvard College. All Rights Reserved. Field Course: Startup Operations Course Number 6673 Senior Lecturer Julia Austin Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0...
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