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- 29 Jul 2020
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Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, as well as the former CEO of Telkom and FirstRand Group, describes how his accounting firm...
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- May 1995 (Revised August 2008)
- Background Note
Intercorporate Equity Investments
By: David F. Hawkins
Discusses accounting for intercorporate equity investments and the preparation of consolidated financial statements.
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Hawkins, David F. "Intercorporate Equity Investments." Harvard Business School Background Note 195-237, May 1995. (Revised August 2008.)
- June 2005 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Financial Reporting Problems at Molex, Inc. (A)
By: Paul M. Healy
Following an accounting problem at Molex, the firm's auditors request changes in management. The board of directors has to decide whether the auditors' concerns have merit or whether, as management argues, the accounting issue is immaterial.
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Keywords:
Managerial Roles;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Financial Reporting;
Relationships;
Resignation and Termination;
Accounting Audits
Healy, Paul M. "Financial Reporting Problems at Molex, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 105-082, June 2005. (Revised July 2009.)
- December 1997
- Case
Baylor Books, Inc.
By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Jeremy Cott
The owner of a trade book publishing company must consider proper accounting for books returned and potentially returnable by book stores. Company and industry data are supplied. Costs of failure to publish books under contract and a cost accounting system for books...
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Bruns, William J., Jr., and Jeremy Cott. "Baylor Books, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 198-082, December 1997.
- Teaching
Overview
Jody has taught Introduction to Financial Accounting and Accounting Information for Managers to undergraduate students at the University of Waterloo.
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- July 2009 (Revised June 2010)
- Supplement
Kim Park (B): Liabilities
By: David F. Hawkins, Gregory Miller and V.G. Narayanan
A series of caselets exploring the accounting for liabilities.
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Hawkins, David F., Gregory Miller, and V.G. Narayanan. "Kim Park (B): Liabilities." Harvard Business School Supplement 110-018, July 2009. (Revised June 2010.)
- August 1989 (Revised May 1991)
- Case
Grosvenor Park
By: William J. Poorvu and Katherine Sweetman
Dick Dublin believes he has designed a townhouse development which will appeal to mobile young professionals. Dublin has removed some market risk by locking in a forward commitment for low interest rate loans for future purchasers at Grosvenor Park. The pricing...
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Projects;
Financing and Loans;
Property;
Financial Strategy;
Price;
Strategic Planning;
Business and Government Relations;
Real Estate Industry;
Maryland
Poorvu, William J., and Katherine Sweetman. "Grosvenor Park." Harvard Business School Case 390-010, August 1989. (Revised May 1991.)
- 08 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Loan Types and the Bank Lending Channel
- January 2003 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Boston Automation Systems, Inc.
By: David F. Hawkins
Daniel Fisher, the CFO of Boston Automation Systems, must review a number of revenue transaction accounting policies following the issuance of the Securities and Exchange Commission's Staff Accounting Bulletin 101, "Revenue Recognition in Financial Statements."...
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Hawkins, David F. "Boston Automation Systems, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 103-041, January 2003. (Revised July 2003.)
- November 2000 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Blaine and Mason, LLP: Gross Versus Net Revenue Reporting (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
The managing partners of a public accounting firm must resolve a number of staff requests for assistance in deciding how audit clients should report their revenues. Each example explores whether revenues should be reported on a gross or net basis.
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Accounting Audits;
Business Earnings;
Budgets and Budgeting;
Financial Reporting;
Revenue;
Accounting Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Blaine and Mason, LLP: Gross Versus Net Revenue Reporting (A)." Harvard Business School Case 101-040, November 2000. (Revised April 2002.)
- 23 Nov 2020
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus David Hawkins Dies at 86
- 26 Sep 2019
- Video
Reimagining Our Capitalist Markets
- Fall 2020
- Article
Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual and the End of the World as We Know It
How does one witness to businesspeople about climate change? Climate change is a problem for the collective and the long term, whereas business often requires a ruthless focus on the individual and the quarter. Climate change is an ethical catastrophe whose solution...
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Keywords:
Sustainable Business;
Climate Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Environmental Sustainability
Henderson, Rebecca. "Climate in the Boardroom: Struggling to Reconcile Business as Usual & the End of the World as We Know It." Special Issue on Witnessing Climate Change. Daedalus 149, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 118–124.
- September 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
G.G. Toys
By: Dennis Campbell and Susan L. Kulp
This case highlights issues of management accounting and includes a review of product costing, excess capacity, variance analysis, and scrap costs.
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Campbell, Dennis, and Susan L. Kulp. "G.G. Toys." Harvard Business School Case 105-005, September 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- December 1999 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Standard International Inc. (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
The company top management must make a series of accounting decisions that will determine the company's quarterly income. A rewritten version of an earlier case.
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Keywords:
Financial Reporting;
Financial Statements;
Inflation and Deflation;
International Finance;
Research and Development;
Accounting Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Standard International Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 100-064, December 1999. (Revised January 2003.)
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Building an IT Governance Committee
chaired by an IT expert. In this mode, it's even more important to get the membership right. For example, the chairman of the IT committee for Novell—a company in strategic mode—founded a major IT-strategy-consulting company, sold it to...
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by Richard Nolan & Warren McFarlan
- 28 Jul 2020
- Video
Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, as well as the former CEO of Telkom and FirstRand Group, describes the importance and results of...
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Krishna G. Palepu
KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean... View Details
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Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, discusses the discrimination he experienced as a young Black accountant during the apartheid era, and how he initially built his business serving Black...
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