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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
President Obama has said many times he supports the Employee Free Choice Act. It passed the House in March 2007, and I believe a majority of senators in this Congress have indicated their support. But I’m not foolish enough to predict the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
would take a German commodity chemical business to a major position in detergents and perfumes, that Eileen Friars would trade in her jeans and long tresses and take charge of a $20-billion credit-card operation, or that Jeff Seder would, in his spare time, discover a... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
China, and others will grow rapidly. The authors predict probable new principles for commercial success, among them that an obsession with return on equity will give way to more broad-based measurements of success, and that Adam Smith’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
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 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
Everybody lights up. What are the advantages of a purebred dog? With a purebred you can predict size, temperament, and needs of the adult dog. If I show you a golden retriever puppy, you can expect it to grow into a seventy-pound... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
generation of Internet-savvy consumers, and how today's CEOs can transform their own focus and that of their organizations from "dot-com" concerns to a more sweeping "dot-corp" vision. Next up was Microsoft president Steve Ballmer, who View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
In a few years there will be no such thing as an e-business," says Vivek Y.Ranadivé (MBA 1983). As founder, chairman, and CEO of Palo Alto-based TIBCO Software, Inc., (www.tibco.com) it would seem that Ranadivé is predicting the demise of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
the story of Enron's collapse continues to unfold, Thomas-Graham is hesitant to predict how the debacle might change the business world. "I would not position myself as a forecaster of future events, but there's certainly going to be more... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
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 1999
- News
A Class Act
HBS Class Notes so appealing? Part of the answer is that they're just plain fun to read (see sidebar). The earliest HBS Class Notes, penned by the magazine's staff, were a fairly predictable listing of address changes, marriage... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
prepare managers for the transition to a postwar economy. In 1945, Kidder, Peabody & Company titan Albert H. Gordon (MBA '25) contributed a prescient essay on the economic impact of peace. Gordon predicted "a major reorientation of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
crisis. And these mortgages would be well underwritten with low loan-to-value ratios so that the risk to the government would be modest. Do you think that your proposal will gain any traction in Washington? Well, it’s always hard to View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
answers for—no one knew which strategies were winning strategies. We knew a lot about more mundane, predictable product categories. So it's a great area for research: It's a fun sector, and there were and are lots of big questions still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
become even more popular as the COVID-19 pandemic has made both the Valley’s products and its real estate prices seem ever more impractical. But if those dire predictions come true, it might not be because of inflated valuations. It could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
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
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
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
- News
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
- News
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