predictions - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jan 2014
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time, researchers would be able to predict financial vulnerability. Enter the BFFS project, which focuses on five areas: regulation and monetary policy, measuring bubbles, extrapolation and neglected risks, the size and structure of the... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Getting the Message

astronomical -- as much as $33 billion worldwide by 2004, according to Forrester Research, a consulting firm specializing in e-commerce. Industry observers are shy to predict just what the future of advertising will look like, but they... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Apr 2001
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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk

more competitive market for Chinese-language media. Lai plans to invest $15.5 million to publish a new Mandarin-language magazine, which he predicts will overshadow his Hong Kong readership in five years. Throughout his journey from... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

05 Oct 2022
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Inside the Chip Shortage

Photo via Digital Chosun Photo via Digital Chosun The shortage of semiconductors that has hamstrung the automotive industry since 2020 isn’t over yet, and Renesas CEO Hidetoshi Shibata (MBA 2001) predicts the shortage will continue well... View Details

Keywords: Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2001
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High Stakes on the High Seas

In 1998, on the day after Christmas, 115 sailboats crossed the starting line in Sydney, Australia, bound for Tasmania, a 630-mile dash across the Bass Strait, one of the world’s most treacherous bodies of water. The fabled Sydney to Hobart race went ahead despite View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

What if it were possible to accurately predict and maybe even prevent the next global financial crisis? Harvard’s Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability (BFFS) Project, conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to do just that.... View Details

01 Dec 2007
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Learning to Lead

model that will predict how its competitors will react to changes in pricing. “I felt completely clueless,” he recalls in the case. The dynamics of the project team are equally demanding. Keller, who launched and ran a company in Cambodia... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management

01 Oct 1996
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No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)

conventional financial analyses, she studies bankruptcy judges and government agency personnel the way some investors analyze corporate managers, in order to predict possible outcomes. "By quantifying the risks, one can get an edge," she... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

01 Dec 2015
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Truth in Lending

approach.” As the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab continues to expand its global reach, now with more than 50 employees on four continents, the company’s model has become increasingly sophisticated at identifying cultural nuances. “But about two-thirds of the model’s View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2015
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Data-Driven Diligence

that sold them on Casper—it was the numbers. The company had tested well in a revolutionary predictive model built by the venture firm. The idea to vet possible investments in such a way hit Coats about a decade ago: Maybe, he figured, he... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

01 Sep 2003
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Globalization Revisited

world in what and how consumers consume.” Sorrell went on to predict that in the coming years, “Companies’ marketing focus will become much more localized, which will call for more, rather than less, emphasis on national management and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2010
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Noted & Quoted

afford to pay their mortgages but walk away from the property instead. (Boston Globe, December 22, 2009) “How predictable was it five years ago that probably well over 90 percent of pictures are taken off smartphones?” — Jim Balsillie... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Information

01 Jun 1998
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Renewing Baker: Tom Michalak, Executive Director of Baker Library

beginning to be recognized as a leader in the delivery of electronic information to the desktops of students and faculty. Do you agree with those who predict the decline of libraries as technology proliferates? No, not at all. Rather, the... View Details

12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

Relations, shines a spotlight on alumni ventures, supports promising new ventures and awards a $25,000 cash prize to the winning team. Preview the finalists, wish the contestants luck, and cast your vote to the right to predict the... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

be a relatively low price for E Ink, given its essential role in manufacturing a device that some predict will become “the iPod for reading.” In a May 2009 report, Forrester Research predicted that the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

asteroid, first we have to know where it’s going to hit and then we have to find a way to deflect it. But if it’s a big one, we likely won’t be able to do much other than leaving earth. And while I’m not predicting we, or our kids or... View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

to be able to contribute to the rethinking about corporate management in the region." Speaking at the dinner that capped the research conference, Professor F. Warren McFarlan, a veteran faculty member who is now overseeing the operations of the Asia-Pacific project,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

about a week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable. While predictions vary... View Details