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  • Fall 2014
  • Article

Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

By: Matthew Weinzierl
The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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  • 05 Dec 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
  • July 2009 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Pfizer: Letter from the Chairman (A)

By: Robert L. Simons and Natalie Kindred
This case explores maximizing shareholder value as a goal in executive decision making. Over a period of nine years, three different Pfizer CEOs make critical decisions intended to increase shareholder value. But the results are disappointing. To allow students to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Annual Reports; Business and Shareholder Relations; Value Creation; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

year comes in the form of an income tax refund. In 2001, the IRS returned $78 billion to families making less than $30,000 annually, for an average return of $1,546 per filer. To Tufano, that check suggested itself as an ideal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 04 Jun 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Financial Services
  • 18 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

during the coming year. Q: Is faculty development one of the challenges you see for the School? A: Faculty development is crucial, but the challenge includes attracting and retaining faculty as well. On the incoming side, the tightening... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • 21 Aug 2023
    • Book

    You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

    The days of sticking with one job through retirement are long gone. Younger workers are prioritizing happiness over workplace loyalty, often out of necessity. Harvard Business School senior lecturer Christina Wallace offers a roadmap for... View Details
    Keywords: by Kara Baskin
    • Web

    Giving - Alumni

    individual retirement account (IRA) to make a gift to HBS of up to $105,000 per year. Special one-time opportunity: You can make a gift of up to $53,000 from your IRA to establish a Harvard gift annuity that will pay you annual View Details
    • Web

    Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    banks and purchasing toxic assets and equity. In 2009, General Motors and the Chrysler Corporation declared bankruptcy. In March of that year, the Dow Jones plummeted its lowest level of 6,594, a decline of more than 50 percent since 2007, and the unemployment rate hit... View Details
    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    highly competitive, at 13 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2022 were awarded to 817 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,794. MBA CLASS OF 2023 Students 1,013 Applications 9,773 Acceptance Rate 13% View Details
    • Web

    Ways to Give Today - Alumni

    Donor name, degree/year, and intended gift purpose (fund name) Stock Transfer When giving long-term appreciated stock to HBS, donors may take a charitable income tax deduction for its mean fair market value on the date of the gift and... View Details
    • Web

    HBS - The year in Review

    Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 15% and 4%, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2023 were awarded to 947 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,992. MBA CLASS OF 2024 Students 1,015 Applications 8,264 Acceptance... View Details
    • 01 Jan 2007
    • News

    Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

    began in 1981. "My father offered me the opportunity to test the work environment in the Philippines at Ayala for a three-year trial period," he recalls. Although considering other options, Zobel took to his work at Ayala "like a fish to water." He stayed on, and when... View Details
    • Web

    Planned Giving - Alumni

    an easy way to leave a legacy at the School. Retirement Plan or Life Insurance Naming HBS as a beneficiary of a life insurance policy or retirement plan, such as a 401(k) or IRA, is a tax-efficient way to... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

    Retirement gig: “I just made my rst personal investment in a startup, a female-led company in the energy sector. After I retire, I’ll just do that: invest my own capital. I’ll be the limited partner and the general partner, so no more... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Horizontal Integration (1) Housing (4) Human Capital (27) Human Needs (14) Human Resources (292) Identity (6) Immigration (37) Income (7) Independent Innovation and Invention (5) Industry Clusters (8) Industry Growth (3) Inflation and... View Details
    • 01 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

    managers face here are many and varied. In a bankruptcy restructuring, for example, one obvious objective is to reduce the firm's overall debt load. However, cancellation of debt creates equivalent taxable income for the firm. Flagstar... View Details
    Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
    • Web

    Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

    Roberts recently retired as the MBA Class of 1961 Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. He spent 25 years on the HBS faculty, serving for the last 16 years as the Executive Director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. In... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Happier-ness at Work

    Professor Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey get the good news/bad news out of the way on page 5 of their new book, Build the Life You Want: The Art and Science of Getting Happier. “If the secret to total happiness existed, we would have all found it by now,” they write.... View Details
    Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information