Will the Pearson chief be brought to book over profits warnings? | Nils Pratley
John Fallon has presided over a string of mishaps at the educational giant and a plunge in the share price
Forecasting is difficult, especially about the future, as the old line goes – but is it quite as hard as John Fallon, chief executive of Pearson, makes it seem?
Two errors in 2016 were understandable, or at least not unique. Most big US educational publishers were too optimistic about the numbers of students enrolling in US colleges and the pace at which all students would opt to rent, rather than buy, their textbooks.
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