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- 24 Jul 2018
- News
How Amy Hood Won Back Wall Street and Helped Reboot Microsoft
Hood needed to correct missteps made on Ballmer’s watch. First up: the $9.5 billion Nokia deal. Less than a year after closing, it was foundering and had missed Hood’s initial forecast for sales and savings. “Once the View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Review and Deloitte provide insight on how industries and companies could use blockchain tech to their best advantage. To learn more about the forecasted growth of blockchain, take a look at the Statista database within the eBaker alumni... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
customer base and are its fastest-growing segment. People assume that it’s mostly millennials who have the desire and savvy to manage their finances by mobile app, Savova says, but “we’ve found that people of all ages want easy ways to contribute, to invest more... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
Its forecasted revenue growth rate is more than 90 percent, and its pre-tax margins run between 80 and 90 percent of sales. The problem is that John is seriously considering selling McAfee to Symantec.” That didn’t happen, according to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
offerings, and fatter profit margins. Featuring case studies from around the world, this book shows how to mine sales data to identify “home-run” products, reinvent forecasting and pricing strategies, and extract maximum value from... 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
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
Professor Joseph Fuller looked beyond dystopian forecasts to explore how ever-evolving technology has the potential to improve the quality of work lives, the earnings of most workers, and company productivity. Viewpoints exposed students... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
hosted an HBS Club of New York panel discussion on cryptocurrencies earlier this year, and she’s here to help us forecast the future of digital dough. “People who got burned when the price of bitcoin crashed are now starting to do more... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Wall Street has left the caffeinated powerhouse virtually untouched. The price of Starbucks stock has climbed steadily over the past ten years, gaining approximately 2,200 percent on the ten-year anniversary of the company's 1992 IPO. Net revenues for fiscal 2002 are... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Wheels Up
Bit by bit, people are flying again. At Dublin Airport, travel is down from a record 33 million passengers in 2019 to a forecasted 8 to 9 million in 2021. Still, it’s a start—and travelers in and out of Ireland’s capital soon will have... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
(HBSAHK) recently held its Sixth Annual Signature Conference, attracting more than 350 participants to network, explore and discuss business trends and forecasts both regionally and globally. “With this annual conference, we aim to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
we’ve greatly improved options and opportunities for our women employees, who tend to have more traditional roles in companies here compared with the United States. All of these ideas — innovative for Japan — have been well received. What’s your View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
their yields. The findings were promising, Cole says: Those who received a weekly call about weather forecasts or pest strategies, for example, saw their yields increase by 8.6 percent for cotton and 28 percent for cumin. As a result,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
industrial capitalism has produced the greatest per capita output of goods ever recorded. And, in direct contravention of the Marxian forecast that workers’ share of income will steadily fall, Schumpeter repeats that “relative shares have... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Learning to Lead
Authored by Assistant Professors Boris Groysberg and Chris Marquis, the case is taught in the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD). After just a few days on the job, Keller (MBA ’05) is taken off one project and thrown into another involving... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
to help managers navigate the myriad decisions they must make in order to create value from their foreign operations and outperform competitors in an increasingly integrated world. Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
companies. Figuring out how we coexist in a way that’s mutually beneficial is going to be one of the key questions moving forward. When do you forecast the last printed edition of the New York Times rolling off the presses? —Graham... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
the world: growing demand and limited supply. According to US research, the world's demand for fresh and pure water is forecast to exceed supply by 50 percent by 2025. Other studies have found that, within a generation, one in three... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
wealth. By the end of 2007, sovereign wealth funds had around $2.6 trillion under management, more than all the world’s hedge funds, and not far behind government pension funds and central bank reserves. According to a forecast by Morgan... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
October 1986 Business is typical. Forecasts spell wealth greater than imagination; actuals result in delay-the-dividend/bonus one more quarter. How in God's name I ended up in satellite insurance is beyond me. The mindless, youthful... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry