Pension Guarantee Funds - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2005
News

One-on-One with Grover Norquist

people make ends meet? There’s no guarantee behind Social Security. Congress can do anything it wants to Social Security any day it wants. When you own assets, like treasury bills and mutual funds, the government can’t take that away from... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

funds at the peak of the crisis), pension liabilities, and a wide range of other loans and liabilities. The total value of explicit loan guarantees is well over $10 trillion.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Nov 2012
Op-Ed

Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities

The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

14 Jan 2021
News

Better Than Cash

Courtesy Ruth Goodwin-Groen Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft. Furthermore, 1.7 billion adults lack a bank... View Details

17 Dec 2015
News

Conducting Research That Influences Practice

work with HBS faculty. She herself is a former PRIMO student. Gifts to the HBS Fund have a significant impact on the doctoral programs, which guarantee fellowships for all students each year of enrollment.... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170 billion in pension and mutual funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

employers will likely maintain their present funding for health insurance, consumer-driven pension plans have been primarily self-funded since 1999. Q: What steps are you taking to move your idea forward,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

even more specific and linked to the performance of individual directors. Some large pension funds like CalPERS, as well as some smaller, socially based funds, are moving in this direction. These View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

01 Sep 2005
News

Taking Flight

Fund, he invested millions of dollars for pension fund clients. In the early 1990s, Thayer taught himself a database program that he thought could be useful for shareholder accounting. As a test exercise, he... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

Fund Management Author: Robert C. Merton Publication: Chap. 1 in Innovations in Investment Management, edited by H. Gifford Fong, 1-17. JOIM Conference Series. New York: Bloomberg Press, 2008 Abstract In talking about View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2012
News

Social Investing Pioneers

simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

just on Japanese orders, particularly now when everyone’s orders are contracting. What are your chief concerns about how the Treasury Department under former Secretary Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) chose to allocate funds from the $700 billion... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

22 Apr 2020
Research Event

How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities

Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

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... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jul 2021
News

Support System

for-profit B2C company that offers fair wages and provides education and retirement funds to its 7,500 registered pickers in the region. She later launched Mother’s Shea. As they have landed in retailers like Anthropologie, Credo Beauty,... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout

Courtesy Argos Pictures; iStock “Because Congress failed to make funds available for these loans, the plan I’m announcing today will be drawn from the financial rescue package Congress approved earlier this fall. The terms of the loans... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

opposed to increased levels of funding from the governments. Analyses of 2011 and 2012 state pension reforms confirm that states opposed to accounting reform are more likely to cut View Details