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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
At Ease
Retired Admiral Mike Mullen (AMP 109, 1991), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, returned to campus in February for a daylong round of activities, including an afternoon visit with veterans from the HBS student Armed Forces... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
founder of ISI Emerging Markets; Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup methodology; Gary Rogers (MBA ’68), retired CEO of Dreyer’s Grand Ice Cream; Jeffrey Walker (MBA ’81), chairman of Millennium Promise; Gwill York (MBA ’84), cofounder... View Details
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
- February 2004 (Revised July 2004)
- Background Note
Retiree Benefit Note Analysis
By: David F. Hawkins
Walks the reader through the retiree benefit note disclosures required by SFAS 132, which were revised in 2003. View Details
Hawkins, David F. "Retiree Benefit Note Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 104-065, February 2004. (Revised July 2004.)
- 17 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Thinking of Joining a Board? Christiana Smith Shi (MBA 1986) Shares Her Experience
San Francisco after graduation, and stayed there for 24 years, retiring as a senior partner in 2010. Along the way I had my son, Tim, who is about to graduate from HBS himself. After McKinsey, I joined Nike in Portland, Oregon, and had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Engine Charlie
WILSON: Decades in the auto business. Charles Wilson (MBA 1936) came into this world back when Henry Ford was cranking out Model Ts. Unlike those now retired roadsters, Wilson, at 100 years old, is still active in the car business,... 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
- 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
- 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.)
- 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
- 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
- 2022
- Working Paper
Optimal Illiquidity
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We calculate the socially optimal level of illiquidity in an economy populated by households with taste shocks and naive present bias. The government chooses mandatory contributions to accounts, each witha different pre-retirement withdrawal penalty. Collected... View Details
Keywords: Illiquidity; Commitment; Flexibility; Savings; Social Security; Retirement; Government Legislation; Taxation; Saving
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, Christopher Clayton, Christopher Harris, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Optimal Illiquidity." Working Paper, July 2022.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
FAQ
in the sample budget below, students contribute an amount that HBS calculates by taking into account their prior years’ salary and spouse’s salary, if married, as well as their personal assets, including real estate, investments, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In Memoriam: F. Gorham Brigham Jr.
to colonel under General George C. Marshall and remaining in the Army Reserve until 1967. His banking career began in 1962, when he joined the Boston Safe Deposit and Trust Company as VP of business development. When he retired from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
Having retired from Congress after representing his western New York district for eighteen years, Amory Houghton Jr. (MBA ’52) is now working as a volunteer with his old friend, Bishop Thomas Shaw, head of the Episcopal Diocese of... View Details
- 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT, 09 Apr 2019
- Career Events
What's Next in My Life?
Do you see change ahead on your horizon, and you're not sure how to quite put it all together? Join this hands-on, two-hour workshop where you will learn frameworks for life and career planning, consider work and life dimensions to help create your next chapter and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Mom Corps
have come, as retiring baby boomers deplete companies of skilled and experienced workers. And O’Kelly has found that there is no shortage of mothers looking for a kid-friendly route back to corporate America. Mom Corps, launched in 2005... View Details
J. Ogden Armour
Upon the death of his father in 1901, Armour took over the direction of Armour and Company. Under his management, sales increased from $200 million in 1900 to $1 billion in 1920. When Armour retired in 1923, the company employed over... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco