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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
An Admirable CEO
the United States. Mark has been with CP since graduating from HBS; with 39 years at the company under his belt, Business Week speculated about who might succeed him. But, the magazine added, one thing was clear: “For now, Mark is the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
“Every time there’s a shift in politics, everything gets reversed.” In the US wind sector that meant decades of stop-and-start innovation, a lack of institutional structures, and speculative investing. This stood in contrast to Denmark.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
watch the brain think? The unpredictability of these big surprises makes us timid in our speculations: It is embarrassing to be publicly wrong, and big surprises make dunces of us all. But avoiding speculation makes science dreary and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
his way up the job ladder at a garment factory, in due course becoming plant manager. By speculating in the stock market, he turned bonus money into enough cash to start his own clothes-making operation, which eventually became Giordano,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
based upon international cooperation; the opposite extreme, Haass said, would be a modern Dark Ages of failed states and disharmony. But he speculated that the most likely scenario would be the rise of a Cold War–style competition between... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Faculty Books
reveal the mechanisms of advancement and speculate on what this means for the future of leadership selection and development. Science Business by Gary P. Pisano (HBS Press) Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform to... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
prices leading to an economic collapse? —Bruce Johnstone (MBA 1966) KIRBY: Unlikely. Prices have fallen considerably in secondary and tertiary cities but are firm in the first tier. Property is, of course, a speculative investment in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Case Study: Citizen Buffett
the Washington Post and sports mogul John Henry's purchase of the Boston Globe, there has been much speculation lately about the trend of well-heeled investors making bets on the future of print media. Yet Esty says the power of this case... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Merrill Lynch's Stan O'Neal
as examples of how the firm has responded to clients’ changing needs. While his future looks bright at Merrill, O’Neal doesn’t speculate about whether he will be asked to take its helm, a move that would make him one of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy
aspiration has been very clear: We will be the most profitable airline in the United States,” said Whitehurst, who media reports speculate is one of the senior Delta executives currently under consideration to be its next CEO. View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
years have been that I have ideas, vague ideas, conjectures, and things like that. And I team up with a guy who’s really good in rigor, mathematics, logic, precision. I have these very strange ideas. They tend to be very vague because I’m a very View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
world was being run," speculates Belkin. "You see the world through the eyes of your past experiences, and the late '60s through early '70s made us look at a number of things, including business opportunities, differently." Benton, who... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
Self-published The Speculator’s Mosaic is a speculative investment book that details the hard-earned wisdom accumulated during five decades of speculation and portfolio management. Culled from a lifetime of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
With national vacancy rates still in the 14 percent range and the economy generating fewer new jobs than in previous recoveries, no one sees much chance of a speculative building bubble for office space. “New construction just hasn’t gone... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Calder-Wang found that adding a woman to a team of senior investment professionals improved the firm’s fund return by approximately 10 percent and increased the percentage of startups with successful exits. Gompers speculates that this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
of literally scores of trees and thousands of flowers where cars and trucks had once dominated. (Tom McCraw has speculated that this was McArthur’s way of doing penance for his years in the Koerners’ sawmill.) As in all of McArthur’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
and gain the trust of their citizens. We’ve also seen more complex processes with the EU adopting a single currency as part of an effort to coordinate actions and act as a strong block. In terms of the speculative nature of bitcoin, given... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
more employees per dollar of revenue than almost any other industry. Balancing compensation and consumers’ willingness to pay is challenging. Lena Goldberg: Many people are speculating that we’ll have far fewer restaurants in the fine... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
of the nonprofit developer Hello Housing, points out that these people are critical to healthy communities: “Some portion of the housing market has to be free from speculation to ensure there’s a place for the people who are supporting... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
radically challenging our sense of the exoticness and uniqueness of being human." She cited popular children's toys such as the Tamagatchi and Furby ("machines that say 'you have to take care of me'") and children's belief that such machines can represent "a different... View Details