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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
diplomatic priority. Plan for the next crisis. “Americans have paid dearly for this latest crisis,” the report concluded. “Lost jobs, failed businesses, foreclosed homes, and sharply cut retirement savings... View Details
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
Money Matters
of financial security, because you can't necessarily rely on credit cards or retirement savings for emergencies," she says. "You should have three to six months of living expenses View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- News
Serious Fun
that teach different aspects of financial literacy. Celebrity Calamity focuses on the ins and outs of credit card debt; Farm Blitz: teaches users about debt, savings, and compound interest; Bite Club, billed as “the world’s first-ever vampire View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
protecting and monetizing their intellectual property. In a Q&A, Professor Josh Lerner discusses current trends in IP, including the rise of patent pools. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5925.html. Rethinking Retirement Planning Many of us... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
Retirement Savings Accounts, making RSAs available to all Americans and the contribution level as high as possible. That would begin the process of ending the double taxation of View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
retirement security. Retirement contributions by employers went from 8–9 percent of payroll in the 1970s to 1–2 percent of payroll over the last ten years. If we’re not going to put real money into View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
medium of photography since the author first took up a camera. Falling Short: The Coming Retirement Crisis and What to Do about It by Charles Ellis (MBA 1963), Alicia H. Munell, and Andrew D. Eschtruth (Oxford University Press) A concise... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
business world and academia had a distinct advantage. He went back to the Pentagon to try to change the way the military engaged with civilians, then to serve at the White House. In 2007, he retired as an Air Force Deputy Assistant... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Insight: Yenball
a week, limiting a team's revenue from Japanese firms. Contrast that with recently retired Hideki Matsui, who could play every game, patrolling the Yankee Stadium outfield with ads for Japanese companies on the wall behind him—visible... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
there in the daytime but had to be moved (for reasons unknown) to a big parking lot behind Baker Hall no later than 9 p.m. To augment my 25¢ a week allowance, I organized many of the residents in Harvard Way Extension to save their... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
those markets and potentially crash the economy. “We really want to protect the people who interact with, and rely on, the markets,” says Jones. “That could be a veteran, a teacher, or anyone who has their life savings invested in a 401K... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
change the design of decision-making environments to influence the decisions of customers and employees. In recent work, he has examined participation in retirement savings plans, household investment... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
Alumni Books Love Coming Home: Transform Your Environment. Transform Your Life by Jennifer Adams (OPM 51) Beyond Words Publishing Rather than sacrificing to save enough for an eventual dream home, Adams recommends looking for the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
saved the lives of hundreds of children since it was first established nearly 30 years ago. “It’s an amazing story,” says Kundu. “A man named Balaram Karan was working in a village one day when he found an abandoned baby on the road.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
to apply to HBS, launching a career that would include executive roles at McKinsey, Citibank, and Union Texas Petroleum, as well as board service for General Mills, Hewlett-Packard, Stanley Black & Decker, and UnitedHealth. From 1993 until his View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
by using VLJs. Their research showed that introducing the new jets would reduce the company’s travel budget by over 25 percent. The savings held firm even when employees at salary levels below $50,000 used the VLJs to travel. “As... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
choice. The audience included retiring CEOs and board members wondering how to give advice in this market, people in mid-career transitions, and recent MBA grads trying to figure out next steps." Kwok says the discussion and subsequent... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley