Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

"Creative accounting" is really bad. For me, it evokes a wonderful old New Yorker cartoon by Robert Weber , where a small, meek accountant stands before the desk of an overfed chief executive exhorting the accountant to rescue the company: "It's up to you now, Miller. Except when it's good.

Creative Accounting 14

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

The power of redistributing power came home to Whitehurst (and his fellow Delta alum Jackie Yeaney, head of strategy and marketing at Red Hat) in the course of introducing a formal strategic planning process to the fast-growing company. And third, "we improved the flexibility and adaptability of the strategy." The effect?

COO 11

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 11

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

I have worked on research that has found that a strong company culture is associated with lower levels of myopic decision making, better productivity, and innovation. Creative accounting measures. Corporate culture. One way to gauge this is in how a firm treats its workforce in bad times.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8