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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
India Research Center: Connecting HBS to South Asia
Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the fastest-growing major economy within two years, HBS’s presence in this dynamic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
market opened for the first time after the attacks, Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter watched the Dow plunge as she began a guest appearance on The Connection public radio program. An expert on how businesses adapt to change, Kanter View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
with an audience of some 350 people. Biondi said that future success in the entertainment industry will depend on senior executives' ability to predict trends from new technology. He reminded participants that TV executives, for example,... View Details
Keywords: Paula Maute
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
of Stewart and Stewart, a Washington-based law firm that represents both domestic and foreign clients on issues of trade and international law, Stewart understands that such disagreements are the predictable outgrowth of a global... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
because it doesn’t factor in people who have abandoned their job searches. Few predict the situation will improve soon: Almost half (47 percent) of the HBS alumni surveyed for the report expected US firms to employ fewer people in three... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
a New Yorker. In the business world, Hannezo predicted that synergies will continue to develop between Europe and the United States, thanks to a shared system of values and a wealth of talent on both sides of the Atlantic. "Together, we... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All
With Y2K predictions running the gamut from glitches with home appliances to worldwide economic collapse, Y2K expert John F. Keane (MBA '54) assesses the situation as it appears with one year to go. John F. Keane is CEO and chairman of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
first-year MBA students encounter nearly a dozen cases that address environmental concerns. “My vision would be that all students graduate with a clear understanding of the predicted ramifications of climate change on society and on... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 16 Nov 2011
- News
Are Humans Cost-Effective?
course there is the obvious upside. As IBM says, such business analytics systems “help cut costs, boost profits, manage risk, and make better predictions about your customers and your market.” One area in which the company is particularly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Clay Christensen on Competing Against Luck
for readers? I hope readers will say to themselves, “Oh my gosh, I can predict whether this product is going to be successful in the market. It actually is not a crapshoot.” And if the theory helps you View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
percent mortgage with no income, no job or assets. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 was not so difficult to predict. What was much harder to predict was the way a tremor caused by a spate of mortgage defaults in America’s very own,... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
fashion e-commerce company, Peach. It’s also a challenge to an industry where a company’s potential is often predicted based on its similarity to other successful ventures, most often led by CEOs who look a whole lot like Mark Zuckerberg.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
Clayton up this weekend for seven Academy Awards. (Any predictions out there on the winners?) Samuels drew an analogy between the real estate industry and filmmaking. “I look at a movie script the same way I look at an empty piece of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
from the London School of Economics but decided to forsake the predictable routine of law and work as an investment analyst in London and on Wall Street. At HBS, Varma pursued his dream of becoming the business manager of a Formula One... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
famous inventor Charles F. Kettering (MBA ’27) predicted ARD would go bust in five years. But Doriot proved him wrong over the next 25 years, as his firm financed and nurtured more than 100 start-ups, many of which became huge successes... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
Within a month, Waldron’s far-reaching predictions proved accurate. And Curriculum Associates was ready, not just for the new world of remote work but also with respect to the increased demand for remote learning. The company committed to... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
cause of it. Thick, old ice reflects 80 percent of solar radiation, helping to keep the planet cool. Brittle, newly formed ice is only half as effective and melts more easily. And open water reflects only 5 percent of the solar radiation warming the planet. Scientists... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
provide the company with the stability and predictability that go with refinery ownership," said Merton, "even though the company may not possess the actual physical technology." Given that these kinds of contractual scenarios will... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair