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- 12 Oct 2016
- Blog Post
Interning as a Software Engineer while at HBS
deal with fraud and debt. Working on payments is a critical function, and any bugs or badly-written code hits the bottom-line. I’m fortunate to work with some of the best engineers in Silicon Valley. When did you first become interested...
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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
"The Immediate Response fleet is their fraud buster." A second Progressive service is called Comparison Quote, said Frei. If a potential customer logs on to the Web site, Progressive will give a quote for Progressive auto...
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by Martha Lagace
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets James Sebenius Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent General Management Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie Fall2024 Q1 1.5 The Anatomy of View Details
- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
WorldCom or Adelphia. The failures at those companies were more likely caused by a combination of fraud committed by individuals, inadequate control and governance systems that tolerated clear conflicts of interest, and a frothy market in...
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by William Sahlman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
seniors' money by offering a caregiver-managed debit card account with personalized spending controls and extra protection from fraud and scams. Johnston likens the growing opportunities in aging to the old high school science lesson of...
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
has used industry-specific versions of these systems—focused on everything from financial services to real estate—to share threat data for a few years now, spreading information about new phishing campaigns or ongoing wire transfer fraud...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed...
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Martha Lagace
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
billion, increasing its value by more than 60 times along the way. But Kozlowski went to prison on fraud charges in 2005, and the portfolio was slowly unwound under his successor. Now in 2016, Tyco was to disappear. Purchase this case:...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 28, 2008
price of diesel fuel. Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508074 Adelphia Communications Corp.'s Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 208-071 In 2002, a massive accounting fraud and...
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Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
Horie represented all that is wrong with Western-style capitalism, others saw him as the future of the country's media industry, and a man of the people. But last month, Horie was arrested on suspicion of accounting fraud and illegal...
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- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
committing the outrage of pleading total ignorance of massive financial fraud in his organization. (Can you imagine a doctor charged with malpractice doing this?) Clearly, the debate is just being shaped. The implications of what is...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
many others. In fact, a recent estimate from the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners indicates that U.S. businesses lose approximately 7 percent of their annual revenues to various forms of unethical behavior, an amount equal to a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
alleging that Noble was too aggressive in its fair value accounting for contracts and investments in producers. Iceberg did not accuse Noble of fraud but suggested that Noble’s profits and balance sheet were highly inflated and Noble was...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Sorting Out the Patent Craze
succeed: Despite Rambus' best efforts to craft their patent claims around the elements of the standard, it was, in the court's judgment, possible to comply with the standard without infringing any of the Rambus patents. And the court ruled that, as a legal matter,...
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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
harshly penalized than their less distinguished peers in the wake of a retraction, but only in cases involving fraud or misconduct. When the retraction event had its source in “honest mistakes,” we find no evidence of differential stigma...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
primarily at auditors (both external and internal), risk managers, accountants, CFOs, and consultants, Effective Auditing for Corporates covers the following: 1) compliance and the corporate audit, 2) fraud detection, 3) risk-based...
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
me back to the apples, and leaders. As in all financial manias, the bubble of the late 1990s and early 2000 gave rise to swindles and frauds and the bad apples that commit them. We need to find out who they are and take appropriate...
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by Kim B. Clark
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
founders sold their remaining shares shortly after the IPO. Two years later, Alantec was acquired for the equivalent of $70 per share. Following the sale, the founders sued, alleging that the venture capitalists had committed fraud and...
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- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
maintain social harmony. But opacity also facilitates fraud and corruption, which erode investor confidence and stifle risk-taking. A flamboyant politician Kotaro Tamura attempts to raise public awareness around these tensions, but his...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
informed trading decisions about various firms. (Nonetheless, he was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy in May 2011.) Soltes also hopes that the study will shed light on the fact that executives at publicly traded companies...
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