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- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
employee 401(k) contributions responded to savings information provided by their employers. The study was conducted to understand what kind of influence company-offered information can have. “We’ve uncovered a phenomenon that is probably not sufficiently attended to in... View Details
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
preferentially locate these bonds inside of their 401(k). Getting this decision right, while not a pure arbitrage, is as close to one as most investors will ever see." We talked with Bergstresser about his research and what personal... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
U.S. The more interesting question is, does it matter?” So that’s it for this month. Does it matter if China assumes global trade leadership? What do you think? For once, I’ll disclose a personal bias up front. In the early 1960s, I... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
impact on their choices about career. And it struck me that these women were among the best and the brightest. They were very ambitious. They had invested a lot in their training at HBS and in their career development. So it probably was... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
Business. At its core, the new system compares a fund manager's investments with those of other successful fund managers, making past performance less important in the rating scheme. In short, funds are rated by the company they keep.... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
spending needs as well as economic factors such as rising interest rates that affect different assets in different ways. Viceira's research analyzes asset allocation strategies for personal and institutional investors. He teaches View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 2014
- Chapter
Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
Using administrative data from twelve companies that added a Roth 401(k) option between 2006 and 2010, we describe the characteristics of Roth contributions. Approximately one year after the Roth is introduced, 9% of 401(k) participants have positive Roth balances.... View Details
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Who Uses the Roth 401(k), and How Do They Use It?" Chap. 12 in Discoveries in the Economics of Aging, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014.
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
the family business. The portrait of the business would also typically represent more than 90 percent of the owners' wealth. “If this transition is not managed well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
broader conception of what went wrong. I believe that business schools have a responsibility to help deal with these problems, and therefore the challenge has a very strong personal dimension for me. This is not a theoretical exercise.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 19 Mar 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager
iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details
- 2025
- Chapter
Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts
By: Sarah Holmes Berk, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James J. Choi and David Laibson
We study the introduction of a choice architecture design intended to increase short-term savings among employees at five U.K. firms. Employees were offered the opportunity to opt into a payroll deduction program that auto-deposits funds from each paycheck into a... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Compensation and Benefits; Well-being; Behavior; Investment Funds; Employees; United Kingdom
Berk, Sarah Holmes, John Beshears, Jay Garg, James J. Choi, and David Laibson. "Employer-Based Short-Term Savings Accounts." In The Elgar Companion to Consumer Behaviour and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, edited by Lucia A. Reisch and Cass R. Sunstein. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming.
- August 1994
- Background Note
World Pension Fund Markets
By: Jay O. Light and Jon Headley
Presents a comparative description and analysis of pension funds in different countries. There is a special focus on comparing the United States and the United Kingdom. View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; United States; United Kingdom
Light, Jay O., and Jon Headley. "World Pension Fund Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 295-027, August 1994.
- January 2010
- Case
Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani
Asheesh Advani is in an enviable position for a successful entrepreneur: he has sold his business and is trying to decide what to do with the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to... View Details
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, and Shirley Spence. "Opportunities in Business and Life after Virgin Money: Asheesh Advani." Harvard Business School Case 810-072, January 2010.
- July 2002 (Revised April 2008)
- Case
Helios Health (B)
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Helios Health (B)." Harvard Business School Case 303-039, July 2002. (Revised April 2008.)
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
President Obama’s Cabinet as Administrator of the US Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. [Image: TommL] Related Reading Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal View Details
- 17 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning
annuitization will help retirees allay their anxieties about outliving their savings, while allowing them to use their remaining plan assets to pursue their other retirement goals. Robert Pozen, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, is former chairman of MFS... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
it." Still, companies around the country are managing to pick their way through such uncomfortable territory in an effort to respond to their employees' deeper yearnings. While spirituality is a highly individual and personal matter,... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
historically putting off building a robust platform in order to meet short-term customer needs), process debt (taking shortcuts for the sake of expediency to get things done without stopping to make core business process robust and repeatable), and cultural debt (not... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- October 2012
- Article
Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs
By: Effi Benmelech, Jennifer Dlugosz and Victoria Ivashina
In this paper, we investigate whether securitization was associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Performance; Markets; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Investment Portfolio; Financing and Loans
Benmelech, Effi, Jennifer Dlugosz, and Victoria Ivashina. "Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs." Journal of Financial Economics 106, no. 1 (October 2012): 91–113.
- 31 Mar 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is This the Decade of the Investor?
their responsibility to represent the best interests of investors, who will? Will dynamics that determine flows of funds and foreign investment levels in the U.S. ultimately pose the threat of fewer funds—foreign or otherwise—to finance... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett