Best-Selling Author Harry S. Dent


Economic Forecaster and Best-Selling Author Harry S. Dent, Jr. Predicts What’s in Store for 2009

Harry S. Dent, Jr. is the Founder and President of a foundation, whose mission is "Helping People Understand Change." Using exciting new research developed from years of hands-on business experience, Harry Dent offers a refreshingly positive and understandable view of the future. Harry Dent is a well-known author and is known as the developer of The Dent Method, a forecasting approach based on changes in demographic trends.

In his book The Great Crash Ahead (Free Press, 2008) Harry Dent outlines how this next great downturn is likely to unfold in three stages, with an interim boom stage between 2012 and 2017 before the long-term slowdown finally turns into the next global boom in the early 2020s.

 

    

 

In the Next Great Bubble Boom, his previous book, he offers a comprehensive forecast for the next two decades and explains how fundamental trends suggest strong growth ahead, followed by a longer-term economic contraction. Harry Dent also publishes the HS Dent Forecast newsletter, which offers current analysis of economic and financial market trends.  

Harry Dent received his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar and was elected to the Century Club for leadership excellence. Since 1988 he has been speaking to executives, financial advisors and investors around the world. He has appeared on "Good Morning America," PBS, CNBC, CNN/FN, and has been featured in Barron's, Investor's Business Daily, Entrepreneur, Fortune, Success, US News and World Report, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, American Demographics and Omni.

While at Bain & Company he worked as a consultant with several Fortune 100 companies. He has also been CEO of several entrepreneurial growth companies and an investor in new ventures. A frequent speaker on economic trends, Harry Dent educates clients and partners on The Dent Method and provides strategic vision for asset allocation and investment selection.