Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2022
Op-Ed

Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent

They started their working years with guaranteed pensions, strong union protections, a more competitive minimum wage, and spent multiple decades at a single company. However, by the end of their working years, pensions disappeared in favor of a new instrument, the 401k... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and MaShon Wilson

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

how Apple's financial model contributes to its success and illustrates a critical lesson about risk management. Mike Wheeler on the Jazz of Negotiation Mike Wheeler, who retired as the MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

before the end of the eighteenth century, but, thanks to the bibliographical research of retired Harvard librarian Kenneth E. Carpenter, we now know there were over 1,100 appearances of Franklin’s The Way to Wealth in at least 26... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

investors, the California Public Employees’ Retirement System and Norges Bank Investment Management, publicly condemned Exxon’s lawsuit and supported Arjuna and Follow This. While the court ultimately dismissed the lawsuit because Arjuna... View Details

02 Nov 2023
News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

time the Army had 6,000 tanks that were ready to retire. Retirement is an expensive proposition as weapons must go through an extensive demilitarizing process, and even the scrap metal wouldn’t yield enough value to offset the high cost... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Apply - Crossover Into Business

Apply Apply Name Email Phone Sports League Years in the league The program is for active and recently retired professional athletes. Are you an active athlete? Yes No If yes, what is your current team or league? If no, when did you... View Details

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

for Boomers to step aside, and for the new generation to step up,” says George, now an executive fellow at Harvard Business School. “They are the leaders we need.” Many Baby Boomers in the US are rejecting the idea of a quiet Florida View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Tata Hall | About

1975), Dean Nitin Nohria & Harvard University President Drew Faust Tata Hall is named in honor of Ratan N. Tata (AMP 71, 1975), who served as chairman of the Tata Sons Ltd., one of India’s largest business conglomerates, from 1991 until his View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Recruitment (31) Refugees (4) Relationships (152) Religion (5) Renewable Energy (7) Reputation (14) Research and Development (59) Research (107) Resignation and Termination (10) Resource Allocation (11) Restructuring (3) Retention (21) View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

Program to support teachers as they embrace the case method in their courses. In her time outside of the classroom, Maureen can be found cheering on the San Francisco Giants, or out on the field herself, playing softball on Boston-area teams. Steve Cohen Steve Cohen is... View Details

2020
Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman

The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details

Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States

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Professional Development - Alumni

Help Salary Data & Statistics Access alumni compensation data to help inform your next move. Learn More Past Program Resources The Challenge of Negotiating Inside Your Company Michael Wheeler Retired Professor of Management Practice Our... View Details

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

of dollars of initiatives will be shifted by it. When the changes are integrated into the management system in this way, the change has been institutionalized. The role of the Executive Leadership Team evolved over time. Bob McCool View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

20 Dec 2022
Op-Ed

Employee Feedback: The Key to Retention During the Great Resignation

well-being of our customers and the people we serve first”—and requires senior teams at every level to foster repeated honest conversations with lower levels about whether their unit is practicing that credo. According to recently retired... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer

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

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dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

may be delayed, or not happen, to the detriment of all parties. Inter-claimholder conflicts played a large role in Navistar International's restructuring. The company had amassed a $2.6 billion liability for the medical expenses of View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

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