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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
The valuation of forecasted cash flows can be an inaccurate process, especially when the forecasts are created by optimists who neglect to consider worst-case scenarios. In this working paper, Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance Richard Ruback lays... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Theory & Practice
practices that will allow people to flourish - the key to organizational success. Do Lunch or Be Lunch by Howard H. Stevenson (Harvard Business School Press) According to HBS professor Howard Stevenson, most of human history and much of human behavior have been driven... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Impact: Where Science and Business Intersect
University. Indeed, HBS is catalyzing the development of discoveries and enterprises that will benefit society. Annual giving to the HBS Fund by alumni and friends makes this possible. Advancing Diagnostics that Can Save Lives Predicting... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
published by the Brookings Institution in the fall of 2020, predicted that business bankruptcies in the United States could increase as much as 140 percent that year, clogging courts and causing confusion in the allocation of capital. “We... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Side of Data with Your Dinner
Damian Mogavero (MBA 1996) was a frustrated restaurateur. The MBA grad wanted to answer simple business questions such as "Why did food costs go up?" but he was greeted, he tells Bloomberg Pursuits, with “blank stares and wrong answers.” His frustration led to the 1999... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Looking to the East
policies of Western entities such as the IMF and the World Bank are often contrary to India's best interests, he told the newspaper that a strategic agreement between India and Japan would greatly benefit both countries over time. Kulkarni View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Tomorrow, Transformed
tomorrow. COMPETENCIES AND CREDENTIALS: Creating jobs and maintaining a company’s competitiveness LIGHTING THE WAY: How Beverly Anderson is forging a foundation for black alumnae AVERTING CRISIS: Could data help predict the next global... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
them—and that’s what she was looking for. “We wanted to create a new field that’s grounded in quantitative, predictive science, and the only way to get there is to think broadly and boldly,” she says. Scientists at Stanford University are... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
Competing in the Age of Digital Convergence Edited by David B. Yoffie (Harvard Business School Press) In an introduction to this new collection of essays, David Yoffie, the School's Max and Doris Starr Professor of Business Admin-istration, View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Digging Deep
operations, creating 400,000 direct manufacturing jobs since 2010. PwC predicts that in the years ahead “manufacturers in all industries will find themselves in a race to efficiently produce products at the point of demand.” BCG... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
These Walls Can Talk
when energy use is lowest; companies will begin to use data to predict and prevent home maintenance issues. Soon: New homes will be wired for connectivity just as they are wired for electricity. “Think about a world where, instead of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Twice a day, this saltwater tidal estuary—river is a misnomer—reverses its direction with the regularity of a Swiss watch, sloshing back and forth between New York Bay and Long Island Sound. This precision allows Verdant’s engineers to accurately View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Predictable Surprises by Max H. Bazerman and Michael D. Watkins Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth The Keystone Advantage by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien Confidence by Rosabeth Moss Kanter... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
said that it might take dozens of generations before China achieves true development. By 2049, the 100th anniversary of China’s revolution, Wen would only predict that “we will have reached the level of a medium-developed society.”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
issue of the Journal of Financial Economics. "It might seem obvious that legislation that either supports or challenges an industry would have predictable financial fallout for a state's firms engaged in that industry," says Cohen. "But... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
The Weather Channel: The Impossible Rise of a Media Phenomenon, by Frank Batten (MBA '52) with Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (51st PMD), is the story of a cable network that succeeded when all the experts predicted it would fail. Former chairman... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the energy crisis, and (2) the economic meltdown. I’ve been rereading Energy Future, HBS professor emeritus Robert Stobaugh’s 1979 best-seller that predicted America’s dependence on foreign oil could well lead the country into serious... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Deals For Sale
often become obsolete in as little as six months, a firm can seldom predict accurately how much of its inventory will actually sell. A company like Compaq, for example, may suddenly find itself with three thousand extra modems on hand.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross