• 01 Dec 2005
• News

Exploring the Galápagos

“Marty should be here for this; this is what he came here for,” Esther Flashner laments to our Galápagos National Park guide, as a dozen of us stroll the sandy beach of Darwin Bay on the island of Genovesa. We are improbably close to View Details

Keywords: Ted A. Adams; Arts, Entertainment

• 17 Oct 2014
• Research & Ideas

New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning

recommended that workers use all their retirement savings to buy life annuities in order to avoid outliving their savings. Nevertheless, few workers want to put their whole retirement nest egg into a life annuity. Why? In one word,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Pozen; Financial Services

• 01 Sep 2011
• News

Capitalism’s False Mantra

University of Toronto. The paper argued that the structure of executive compensation and perks motivated CEOs and other top officers to feather their own nests at the expense of the business itself — the “principal-agent problem.” How... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

• 17 Feb 2014
• Research & Ideas

Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions

"defined benefit" plans because they assured recipients of a set monthly amount they could always rely on. Then, starting in the 1980s, the nest egg started to crack. As firms began competing globally, pension perks began to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Aerospace; Financial Services

• 04 Sep 2018
• First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2 billion to acquire Nest Labs, a new startup whose goal was to reinvent unloved home devices, such as thermostats and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

• 17 Sep 2020
• Blog Post

HBS Grads Launch Cybersecurity Nonprofit to Fight Infodemic

volunteers to join the organization. We also scheduled frequent mentoring sessions with Entrepreneurs-in-Residence at the i-lab where industry leaders come on campus and mentor founders. The i-lab has been the nest for the humanID team... View Details

• 24 Apr 2013
• Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

in the Midwest, and my mother was a real estate agent who took on other work as money needs arose. They both hoped that I wouldn't have to deal with the financial stresses they had faced. They wanted me to have a nest egg. They hoped I... View Details

• 24 Jul 2014
• Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

consumption tax, are preferred if feasible. Legislation that is narrowly focused on preventing inversions or specific transactions runs the risk of being counterproductive. These transactions are nested in a broader set of corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

• 25 Apr 2014
• Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

Back then, Argentina tried to fend off creditors by adopting a hard-line attitude about reducing its debt obligations. When it initiated a bond exchange offer in 2005 and told its creditors to "take it or leave it," the republic triggered a hornet's View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

• 05 Jul 2006
• Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

Schneider, Tufano proposes a slight renovation of the program that will make it easier for asset-poor families to use savings bonds to build a nest egg for the future. Families living paycheck to paycheck rarely squirrel away funds to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

• 01 Oct 2002
• News

Sam Hayes

musician, Hayes plays the pipe organ and cello, “but only with family” — a select group that consists of his wife, Barbara, and their three daughters and two grandchildren. What's behind the current crisis in U.S. financial markets? Wall Street has always been a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

• 01 Mar 2013
• News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones, Febreze dispensers, and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

• 01 Jun 1999
• News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

mutual funds as a means to build their retirement nest eggs. A snapshot of some industry numbers reveals that in 1964, mutual fund assets totaled $28 billion; by 1980, they had grown to some $150 billion. But by 1992, assets had soared to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

• 25 Jul 2017
• First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

Kominers, and Alexander Westkamp Abstract—We introduce a framework of matching with flexible allotments that can be used to model firms with cross-division hiring restrictions. Our framework also allows us to nest some prior models of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

• 27 Sep 2004
• Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

plural," Mike Krzyzewski, Duke's men's basketball coach, liked to repeat. Winning streaks are associated with not just one but many leaders—a nested series of leaders, like the Russian dolls in which each doll opens to reveal another... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter