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- 10 Feb 2016
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
example. So when the mother of six retired in 2012, she tapped the expertise of her colleagues and friends—her HBS classmates included—and published a book of 26 of their essays on what makes an effective leader, entitled Lenses of... View Details
- September 1992
- Background Note
Accounting for Post-retirement Benefits
By: William J. Bruns Jr., David F. Hawkins and Marc H. Zablatsky
Bruns, William J., Jr., David F. Hawkins, and Marc H. Zablatsky. "Accounting for Post-retirement Benefits." Harvard Business School Background Note 193-032, September 1992.
Samuel M. Zemurray
Zemurray made his first fortune with the Honduras-based Cuyamel Fruit Company, and intended to retire when, in 1930, he sold the company to United Fruit in exchange for stock in the larger firm. A falling stock market, however, forced him... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
General Motors Corporation: Retiree Benefit Risk Management (A)
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
General Motors issues $17 billion and uses $10 billion to reduce an unfunded pension obligation. View Details
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "General Motors Corporation: Retiree Benefit Risk Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 104-041, November 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at Haley-Midland
By: Robert C. Pozen and Scott Eric Perl
Rose Adams, the CFO of Haley-Midland, Inc., dispensed with pleasantries and started right in on her questions for Jim Sweeney, the senior vice president of human resources, and Nancy Walters, Haley-Midland's vice president and treasurer, about the brewing crisis with... View Details
Pozen, Robert C., and Scott Eric Perl. "Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at Haley-Midland." Harvard Business School Case 311-128, May 2011. (Revised December 2011.)
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
New York Life and Immediate Annuities (TN)
By: Julio J. Rotemberg and John T. Gourville
Teaching Note for [510040]. View Details
Thomas B. McCabe
McCabe transformed Scott Paper from a sleepy 500 person paper mill company in Chester, Pennsylvania, into a multinational concern with over 60 manufacturing plants throughout the world employing over 40,000 people. By his retirement from... View Details
Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
an enormous and long-lasting impact on students and faculty alike.” After retiring from the faculty in 1993, Pearson served as an operating partner at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice until 1997 and as chairman and CEO of YUM Brands, PepsiCo’s... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Teaching Note
General Motors Corporation: Retiree Benefit Risk Management (TN)
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Teaching Note to (104-041). View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
Laboratory at MIT. Although the School was his professional home from 1940 to 1975, Hunt also taught on five continents during his HBS tenure and after his retirement from the School. In 1983, he received the HBS Distinguished Service... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship
older or retired to share my good fortune," says Rauner, managing principal of Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc. (GTCR), a Chicago-based private equity firm that specializes in acquiring and consolidating service businesses in highly... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- July 1998 (Revised March 1999)
- Case
Social Security Reform
Examines various approaches to pension reform. Examines the current Social Security system in the United States, pension reform in other countries, and the leading approaches to reform. Concludes with analysis of three questions: 1) would returns be higher in a private... View Details
Keywords: Privatization; Retirement; Welfare or Wellbeing; Government and Politics; Public Administration Industry; United States
Kennedy, Robert E., and Brian Irwin. "Social Security Reform." Harvard Business School Case 799-011, July 1998. (Revised March 1999.)
- August 2019 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game
By: Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt and Evan M.S. Hecht
NBA Superstar Dirk Nowitzki was unsure whether the 2018–2019 season would be his last as an NBA player. He had not faced such uncertainty since 1998, when he had navigated a difficult decision regarding the timing of his move to the NBA. He also did not know what he... View Details
Keywords: Career Decisions; Career Journey; ＂Sports Organizations,; Mentoring; Retirement; Sports; Performance; Training; Personal Development and Career; Sports Industry; United States
Groysberg, Boris, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Evan M.S. Hecht. "Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game." Harvard Business School Case 420-031, August 2019. (Revised September 2019.)
LeRoy A. Petersen
customers and on building high quality products that came with a guarantee of equally high quality service and repair operations. He also expanded the firm internationally, acquiring stakes in other companies and erecting offices abroad, so that by the time he View Details
Keywords: Fabricated Goods
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in a community's housing and cultural life
Randy Hawthorne (MBA 1973), a retired real estate executive, talks about the community benefits of investing in housing and the arts. (Published April 2014) View Details
- Web
Donaldson Room | About
Donaldson Room The Donaldson Room, located within the Emeriti Faculty Center of Cumnock Hall , was named to honor the service of Professor Gordon Donaldson. About the Name The Donaldson Room in Cumnock Hall was dedicated in 1993 upon the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Securing financial stability for a local commuinity
Michael Henzi (MBA 1973), a retired securities and financial planner reflects on using his expertise to maintain stability for his community's finance agency. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
Creating solutions for the oil industry
Retired high-tech entrepreneur Thomas Scambos (MBA 1954) started a company that developed additives to make oil flow more efficiently and also help deal with oil spills. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
Teeling, DBA 1979, who has started a number of Irish whiskey distilleries, hadn’t intended to sit and offer his advice, but his companion had other ideas. Teeling: The reason you have me here is because my wife was listening to the request to come on and she says I’m... View Details