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- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
mountain of pension costs. John Macomber, Robert Pozen, and Eric Werker—offer their views on some down-the-road scenarios. Beyond A Bailout By: Senior Lecturer John Macomber Detroit has failed. Why did this happen, might there be more big... View Details
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
climate policies. Applying the “universal owner” model. The world’s largest assets owners have taken note of the scale of this exposure. Large pension funds invest so broadly—through index funds, private equity, or other securities—that... View Details
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
spending four years aggressively moving the fifth largest pension fund in the United States into alternative asset classes, Harris felt that TRS shouldn't just participate in private equity funds as a typical limited partner. Rather,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
service. They each provided alternative visions of the world. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317100-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-022 Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI Considers the decision faced by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
the book was to show that we can start changing environments to make it easier for our minds, which aren't perfectly rational and don't absorb information perfectly, to succeed in life," Bohnet explains. While the book's authors applied their theory to policy... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration of America's shift away from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
http://icc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/dtq013?ijkey=WB7zzaO3bsqcw4t&keytype=ref Pension Fund Design in Developing Economies Author: Luis M. Viceira Publication: In Evaluating the Financial Performance of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
dominated the recent study of gender in negotiations. Or do we start with belief systems and cultural patterns within organizations and explore ways in which these are gendered and result in gendered negotiations? This is the approach taken throughout this special... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
another new product and, if so, what this move would mean for their ready-to-grow product line. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-071 Infrastructure in Nigeria: Unlocking View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?
control ensures that many consumers' and providers' needs go unmet and that industry inefficiency goes unchecked. In many ways, the current health insurance model resembles the way companies used to manage their employees' retirement savings. In traditional defined... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
Case 317-044 Vicki Fuller: Chief Investment Officer of New York State's $150+ Billion Employee Pension Fund Vicki Fuller traveled from a four-room tenement bordering Chicago’s infamous Cabrini-Green housing projects to speaking at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
decisions, trying to understand how they make decisions now is pretty important. Q: Please describe how the research got started. A: Jim Poterba and I started the project at the end of my time in graduate school. There had been earlier literature on asset allocation... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment
provided a good return for a pension fund holder at some point, but that investor and society pay more in the end through increased health care costs. Hayes said that Domini's picture of a system run amok, with perhaps the need for a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
provide health insurance, but who cannot afford it, will find new, lower-cost consumer-driven health care policies, such as those offered by California's Wellpoint, that help them achieve their goal. Employees in defined-contribution View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
overcoming long odds. Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World? Can inclusivity, sustainability, and better governance boost economies? Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim discuss the impact investing efforts of GPIF, Japan’s... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
PFA Pension was the biggest commercial pension provider in Denmark. At the end of 2015, the company had decided to boost its investments into the alternative asset class, an area where it was lagging behind... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
taxes. We use the model to evaluate the welfare consequences of a range of alternative policies. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2533977 Lobbying Behavior of Governmental Entities: Evidence from Public Pension Accounting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
Regardless of whether their problems were of their own making, there were those who argued that the immense health and pension obligations and non-competitive compensation structures of these companies represented a situation "out of... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
such as pension administration or IT, that are made available to the business units should also be subject to a market test, even if they can be quite large. It is really only the value adding functions—corporate R&D (if the firm has... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace