Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2004
What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

subsidies, global warming, rising medical costs (especially in the U.S.), growing retirement commitments (worldwide) and, on a more mundane level, the implosion of frequent-flyer mileage programs. (To this list, the authors of another new... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

dramatically since several large public institutions (for instance, the California Public Employees Retirement System and the University of Texas Investment Management Company) have released onto the Internet the returns from the funds in... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

22 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

CEO Succession: The Case at Ford

a very good record which are the LBOs, almost never go for that sort of CEO. They look for an industry figure who really knows a lot about the business and that company—often a retired CEO. Q: Is it easy to predict who's going to be the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Auto; Employment

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

line—if this had been our own retirement fund or our kids' college fund—I don't know if we would have necessarily had the conviction to stick with it," says Singhal. (She and Higgins now work together at AQR Capital Management, an... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

in the relationships among faculty and administrators. University DNA is not only similar across institutions, it is also highly stable, having evolved over hundreds of years. Replication of the DNA occurs continuously, as each retiring... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

current tax rates or government benefit programs in retirement and health care—a big "if". Stating that net debt (financial liabilities minus financial assets) levels of 200 percent of gross domestic product are unsustainable,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

indices." Technology is a means to that end. Technology, Efficiency And An Aging Population From a macroeconomic perspective, Seifert pointed out, technologically advanced and efficient capital markets will play a key role as countries face a major demographic... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

Recruit, they are eligible for a $75,000 retirement bonus. Once an employee turns 41, the bonus is increased to $150,000. This is to ensure that employees who have other dreams are able to pursue them, while Recruit only retains employees... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

employers with sicker labor forces are likely to be lower than those of the average retired Medicare enrollee. Combining HRAs with the Public Option will also increase competition in the bloated U.S. health care system. Faced with... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

cannot get out of health care, no matter what kind of health insurance system is put in place. They bear the cost of poor health in the form of sick days, absenteeism, reduced productivity at work, and early retirements of skilled... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

teams, such as Drew Brees of the New Orleans Saints and Dak Prescott of the Dallas Cowboys. A few like Cam Newton (injury concerns) and Jameis Winston (accuracy issues) are unsigned, whereas Eli Manning chose to retire for a lack of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

BSSE." For more than a decade, Huber visited Christensen's class twice a year, sitting anonymously in the back of the room while students tore OnStar apart, and then introducing himself to their chagrin. "I was their piñata," he says. When Huber View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

crisis without an explosion or a meltdown. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/07/how-the-other-fukushima-plant-survived/ar/1 July-August 2014 Harvard Business Review The Crisis in Retirement Planning By: Merton, Robert C.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, who taught... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

more like a DB plan in the near future. Although this chapter focuses on a U.S. context and corporate pension plans, retirement and asset-management issues are a global challenge, and indeed, while the details vary across geopolitical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

becoming a staff member. But I ended up retiring from Wall Street and being the president and CEO of ACCION International, which I then ran for seven years." In 2000 he handed the reins to "a superb number two" and with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

empty. Dennis Campbell and Tatiana Sandino discuss their new case study. How to Be a Rebel Leader In the book Rebel Talent, Francesca Gino argues companies should encourage rebellion in their workplaces. Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now? Transitioning from work to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

Tata & Sons helped revolutionize business practices in India. From instituting the eight-hour work day and paid leave to providing a retirement gratuity, Tata's policies created a standard to which other companies—and eventually... View Details