Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

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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01 Dec 2023
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Rounding the Bend

Illustration by Fernando Cobelo To help people visualize what a circular economy could look like and bring the challenges down to a closet-sized scale, Emily Bolon (MBA/MPA 2007) recommends the following exercise. First, make a mental tally of the number of garments... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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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

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

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

authority on case method teaching. Christensen joined the Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty in 1946, and although he formally retired in 1990, he continued to write, teach, and offer seminars on Case Method teaching until the last... View Details

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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

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Career Re-Entry & Flexible Work - Alumni

Planned, yet premature retirement Re-examination of commitments, “soul searching” Whether you anticipate a career break, or wish to position yourself favorably in the event of an unplanned job loss, you can take steps now to make re-entry... View Details

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Women at HBS - Alumni

alumnae's experiences at and beyond HBS. 800 alumni attended the two-day W50 Summit on campus April 4–5, 2013 to celebrate the anniversary; hear keynote speakers Karen Gordon Mills (MBA 1977), Administrator of the US Small Business Administration; Ann Moore (MBA 1978),... 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

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), the recently retired president of the University of North Carolina, has made a lifelong habit of answering what he terms "life's cold calls of responsibility." To a gathering of graduating HBS... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

performance Norton says. He cites a recent incident in which several retired high-ranking US military leaders publicly supported a Supreme Court decision in favor of affirmative action in university admissions. "Their point was that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2021
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Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

recalls his father asking. That question stayed with Pete Stavros. There had to be a better way. Early in his career as an investor, Stavros was part of a deal with a company that had an employee stock ownership plan (ESOP), an employer-funded, stock-based View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

Last year, the pioneering Black-owned global asset management firm Brown Capital Management found itself at a crossroads. The secret to its success had been a deliberately diverse hiring strategy, but with the looming retirement of its... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

to do, like save for retirement—which are both for the good of society and for their own good. Here’s an example. On the first day of a new job, the paperwork is coming at you fast and furious, including a packet of information about how to sign up for the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Cumnock Hall | About

well-appointed offices and support services for HBS emeriti professors. The Center offers a wide array of amenities to retired emeriti faculty at HBS. These features include office space, equipment use, archival document storage,... View Details

15 Nov 2023
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Sound Investment

Steven Rogers outside the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Evanston, Illinois (photo by Gay Riseborough) Steven Rogers outside the Second Church of Christ, Scientist, Evanston, Illinois (photo by Gay Riseborough) Retired senior... View Details

Keywords: diversity; equity; inclusion

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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

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

industry conferences. Recently retired as CEO of TotalEnergies Ventures, Nadkarni has served as advisor to the World Economic Forum and was on the selection committee for the WEF Technology Pioneers for several years. In 2021, Nadkarni... View Details

28 Feb 2019
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New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

firm based in Boston, where he served in a wide range of roles, including managing partner and Executive Committee member. He also served as board director of more than 30 public and private companies. He recently retired from Summit and... View Details

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