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Levers of Control
Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic...
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Innovation Corrupted: The Origins and Legacy of Enron's Collapse
Although much has been written about the rise and fall of Enron, the focus of most of this work has been more on “What Happened?” rather than on “Why it happened?” This research reports on four important questions relating to the social pathology of Enron’s... View Details
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Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan
By: Douglas Skinner and Suraj Srinivasan
We study events surrounding ChuoAoyama's failed audit of Kanebo, a large Japanese cosmetics company whose management engaged in a massive accounting fraud. ChuoAoyama was PwC's Japanese affiliate and one of Japan's largest audit firms. In May 2006, the Japanese...
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Keywords:
Audit Quality;
Auditor Reputation;
Japan;
Accounting Audits;
Crime and Corruption;
Reputation;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Japan
Skinner, Douglas, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Audit Quality and Auditor Reputation: Evidence from Japan." Accounting Review 87, no. 5 (September 2012): 1737–1765.
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
everyone's questions. We inverted the pyramid of the organization and made reverse accountability a reality." That's not all. Nayar makes his own 360-degree feedback open to 50,000 employees, and 3,800 View Details
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by James Heskett
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Targeting Weather Insurance Markets
By: Anita Mukherjee, Shawn Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
The suitability of insurance products often depends greatly on individual circumstances. This paper examines the challenges of heterogeneity in a relatively new product, weather‐indexed insurance. This index insurance product has been launched in over a dozen...
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Keywords:
Index Insurance;
Labor Markets;
Self-insurance;
Self-protection;
Weather;
Insurance;
Markets;
Household;
Risk Management
Mukherjee, Anita, Shawn Cole, and Jeremy Tobacman. "Targeting Weather Insurance Markets." Journal of Risk and Insurance 88, no. 3 (September 2021): 757–784.
- March 2006 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Putnam Investments: Rebuilding the Culture
By: Nitin Nohria and Charles Nichols
Charles "Ed" Haldeman Jr. is promoted CEO of Putnam Investments after the firm was badly damaged by a series of improper trading practices. He is charged with the task of managing the crisis, repairing the company culture, and putting the firm back into a pattern of...
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Crime and Corruption;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Ethics;
Investment Funds;
Investment;
Leading Change;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Nohria, Nitin, and Charles Nichols. "Putnam Investments: Rebuilding the Culture." Harvard Business School Case 406-009, March 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
- 03 Mar 2015
- News
Is Social Media Actually Helping Your Company’s Bottom Line?
- April 2022
- Teaching Note
Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth
By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had...
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- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
adequacy, actuarial standards, accounting standards, and auditing practice. In these areas, corporate managers and financial experts such as auditors and bankers possess the technical expertise necessary for...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Loewen Group Inc., The
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jose Camacho
A publiclytraded funeral home and cemetery consolidator faces imminent financial distress. The company has aggressively grown through use of debt. Restructuring the debt is potentially very costly to creditors, shareholders, suppliers, and other corporate stakeholders....
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Keywords:
International Accounting;
Restructuring;
Capital Structure;
Cost of Capital;
Debt Securities;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Crisis Management;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Service Industry
Gilson, Stuart C., and Jose Camacho. "Loewen Group Inc., The." Harvard Business School Case 201-062, November 2000. (Revised December 2000.)
- Research Summary
Is Deposit Insurance a Good Idea, and if so, Who Should Pay for it?
Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.
Deposit insurance schemes are becoming increasingly popular around the world and yet there is little understanding... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Andrew Hill and Kaitlyn Simpson
Describes the dilemma faced by Emmanuel Ferreira, a fund manager at OppenheimerFunds. As the largest shareholder and a long-time investor in software publisher Take-Two Interactive, Ferreira contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to...
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Restructuring;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Investment;
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business and Shareholder Relations
Lorsch, Jay W., Andrew Hill, and Kaitlyn Simpson. "OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-074, November 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could...
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- May 2020
- Teaching Note
Kraft Heinz: The $8 Billion Brand Write-Down
By: Jill Avery
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-076. On Friday, February 22, 2019, following an unexpected and disappointing earnings report, The Kraft Heinz Company’s stock price fell 27%, wiping out $16 billion in market value. CEO Bernardo Hees had announced that the company had...
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- October 2018 (Revised May 2019)
- Teaching Note
Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs
By: Joseph Fuller, Shikhar Ghosh and Monica Baraldi
Teaching Note for HBS No. 816-048. The case tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business units—professional tax software, sold to accountants, and the consumer focused...
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Audit Personnel Salaries and Audit Quality
By: Jeffrey L. Hoopes, Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli and Joseph H. Schroeder
This study examines the relation between audit personnel salaries and office-level audit quality. We measure audit personnel salaries at the associate, senior, and manager ranks for Big 4 audit offices from 2004 to 2013, using unique individual-auditor-level data...
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Audit Personnel Salary;
Audit Quality;
Salary Determinants;
Audit Fees;
Accounting Audits;
Quality;
Wages
Hoopes, Jeffrey L., Kenneth J. Merkley, Joseph Pacelli, and Joseph H. Schroeder. "Audit Personnel Salaries and Audit Quality." Review of Accounting Studies 23, no. 3 (September 2018): 1096–1136.
- August 2009
- Case
The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co.
By: Willy C. Shih, Chen-Fu Chien, Chintay Shih and Jack Chang
When L.C. Tu receives an emergency order, he is confronted with a range of production scheduling choices, each of which has unique costs and trade-offs. The case was designed to help students understand job-shop style production and the impact of disruptions and...
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Keywords:
Disruption;
Customer Relationship Management;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Cost;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Production;
Semiconductor Industry;
Taiwan
Shih, Willy C., Chen-Fu Chien, Chintay Shih, and Jack Chang. "The TSMC Way: Meeting Customer Needs at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co." Harvard Business School Case 610-003, August 2009.
- March 2018 (Revised July 2018)
- Case
Cadre
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Scott Duke Kominers and David Lane
Late in 2017, CEO Ryan Williams and his team debated whether Cadre should become not only a technology-enabled investment manager, but also an online trading exchange providing high levels of liquidity for investors in commercial real estate (CRE) equity. Cadre was a...
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