Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

"Creative accounting" is really bad. Say that in a roomful of managers, and you get nervous laughter. The only thing that can save us is an accounting breakthrough." Wall Street's " financial innovations " of recent years seem to have given creativity a bad name. Except when it's good.

Creative Accounting 14

Creative Accounting Creativity GAAP Balanced Scorecard 14

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2017

However, firms can efficiently increase margin growth without much revenue growth by managing to squeeze out their fixed costs to service the same level of output. What if concentrated market power of a few companies in an industry has made these companies more profitable than usual? Creative accounting measures.

EPS 8

EPS Metrics Depreciation Short-term 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2011

What is interesting and important happens mostly in secret, in places where there is no power. Those who already have power continue to glide along the familiar rut they have made for themselves." — Michael Ondaatje, The Cat's Table. It's not optional, he says. People will always find a way to be heard.". Why listen?

COO 11

COO Learning-by-Doing Bureaucracy Strategy 11