Browsing HBS Theses and Dissertations by Keyword "Business Administration, Accounting"
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Complexity, Contract Design and Incentive Design in the Construction Management Industry
(2015-05-26)In this paper I examine how one construction management company uses contract design and incentive design to respond to aspects of task complexity and relationship complexity present in its construction projects. In terms ... -
Essays on Corporate Governance and Shareholder Activism
(2016-05-13)In these essays, I explore the relation between shareholder activism and corporate governance, mainly the board of directors and takeover defense measures. In the first essay, “Takeover defenses in the era of shareholder ... -
Essays on the Role of Accounting Information in Governance and Valuation
(2017-09-07)My dissertation is focused on understanding how firm-level accounting information affects resource allocation in capital markets, by : (1) interacting with mechanisms through which investors govern managers and (2) ... -
Management Control and Employee-Driven Innovation
(2016-05-13)Organizations increasingly empower their employees to conduct local experimentation and generate innovation ideas. The aim of this dissertation is to understand the role of management control mechanisms in motivating and ... -
Overcoming Limits in the Design of Formal Management Control Systems: Evidence from the Field
(2018-08-28)The management accounting literature emphasizes the importance of management control systems as means to monitor and influence activities in a firm. Whereas prior works in this area primarily focus on the design of explicit ...