Friedman, Walter A. "The Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-036, November 2007.

Ever since he predicted that Boston and all other U.S. coastal cities might be destroyed by the atom bomb (TIME, May 13), Roger Babson, paid counselor to businessmen (Babson’s Reports ...

That prediction was made by an investor named Roger Babson on Sept. 15, 1929. "Sooner or later a crash is coming," Babson said. "And it may be terrific." Stocks tanked immediately thereafter.

Landing in San Francisco from a tour of the Orient, the venerable Roger Babson had something to say to the press. Mr. Babson, who for almost 40 years has made his living selling the public charts ...