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Integrated Assurance at Philips Electronics N.V.
Eccles, Robert G.; Salzman, DanielaCase HBS-412054-EAccounting and ControlPhilips Electronics is a leader in integrated reporting. In 2010 it produced its third generation report. Since its first report in 2008, Philips' integrated reports and its integrated reporting website had grown in sophistication. In planning for its integrated report for 2011, the company is exploring the issues that will need to be addressed in order to produce an integrated report. KPMG is the company's auditor for both the financial and nonf...Starting at €8.20
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Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef
Alvarez, Jose B.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-515001-EMarketingDr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product-made entirely from muscle grown in his lab-to give it the same taste, texture and appearance of a traditional beef hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had been taste tested live, with good results, and Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, had provided Post with much of the funding to make the burgers. The next step was to form an inde...Starting at €8.20
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The "Wonder Drug" that Killed Babies
Krieger, Joshua Lev; Nicholas, Tom; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-818044-EEconomicsIn the early 1960s, a popular drug taken by patients worldwide for a range of maladies was found to cause severe birth defects and other health problems in babies born to mothers who had taken it during a certain stage of fetal development. As many as 10,000 children may have been affected. Just a handful of these children were born in the U.S., where safety concerns were raised by Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, the medical officer handling the thali...Starting at €8.20