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Session 11: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Presentations
Norman Morin slideshow ; handout
Links of Interest
Fed data on Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Speakers
Harry Homan
Fluor Corporation
Harry Homan is currently Senior Director, Strategic Development, Fluor Corporation.
Fluor is one of the world’s largest publicly owned engineering, procurement, construction and maintenance organization, with annual revenues of approximately $10 billion.
Harry leads a team which identifies opportunities arising from changes in the external environment; looks at how to enhance the company’s overall competitive position; and coordinates the company’s strategic planning process. He also helps the business units test the robustness of their plans and develop strategic options, appraises enterprise risk and advises the corporation on portfolio issues.
Harry has a BS in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois and an MBA from the University of Southern California. His responsibilities at Fluor have included economic forecasting, marketing research and planning, technology development, finance & administration, business & competitor intelligence and strategic planning. Prior to joining Fluor he spent two years with DuPont in product and process development.
Harry is currently chairman of NABE’s Corporate Planning Roundtable. He is active in a variety of professional associations including the National Business Economic Issues Council and Association for Strategic Planning, and previously served on the Conference Board Association of Strategic Planning Executives and as chairman of the Southern California section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.
Norman Morin
Senior Economist
Federal Reserve Board
Norman Morin joined the Division of Research and Statistics at the Federal Reserve Board in 1997, where he is a senior economist in its Industrial Output Section. His primary responsibilities include producing the published estimates of industrial production, capacity, and capacity utilization and analyzing and forecasting developments in the industrial sector. His research interests include nonstationary and nonlinear time series econometrics.
He received his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, San Diego.
Charles Steindel
Senior Vice President
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Charles Steindel is a Senior Vice President in the Macroeconomic and Monetary Studies Function. He oversees the Group's analysis and forecasts of U.S. economic conditions. His research interests include consumer spending and saving and productivity growth. He has served as president of the Money Marketeers of New York University and the Forecasters Club of New York. He received his bachelor's degree from Emory University and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
His fields of interest include: Chain weighting measuring gdp, Consumer behavior, Cycle capital spending balance sheet, Growth and Productivity, Inflation estimates productivity growth, Investment, Manufacturing, Private saving, Productivity growth, Saving, Saving economic growth, Stock market consumption, Tax rebate.
Peter Jaquette
Weyerhaeuser
Robert Fry
Senior Associate Economist
DuPont
Robert Fry is Senior Associate Economist, DuPont Economist's Office, where he analyzes and forecasts the global economy and its impact on DuPont. He assists DuPont businesses with interpreting economic data and using it to forecast DuPont performance. He speaks frequently to customers, trade associations, and business teams. He is the author of Current Business Developments, a monthly newsletter.
DuPont Economist’s Office (Robert Fry and DuPont Corporate Economist Bob Shrouds) tied for first place in The Wall Street Journal’s semiannual forecasting survey (2nd half 2002), made the top 10 in USA Today’s forecasting survey (March 2004 and March 2005) and Bloomberg’s forecasting survey (October 2004), and won the prestigious Lawrence R. Klein Award for Blue Chip Forecast Accuracy (November 2005).
He has a B.S. (Economics) from Ohio University, 1979; Harvard University, A.M. (Economics), 1981, Ph.D. (Economics), 1985.
He is a past chapter president of the Wilmington, DE chapter of the National Association for Business Economics.
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