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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
offering guaranteed lifetime income through workplace retirement plans. As Ackerley explains, many American workers used to have defined benefit plans, or pensions, that ensured a steady stream of income in retirement. Some companies and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) gave the green... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Annual Report Details Strong Financial Growth
million to reach a total of $62 million, reflecting gifts to The Campaign for Harvard Business School and another above-average year of investment returns for the School’s endowment. Campaign gifts and endowment funds enable HBS to make... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
Returning to his roots in the Middle East, Cohen created The Portland Trust in 2003 to fund investments aimed at easing tensions between Israel and its neighbors. For example, the trust is working to secure loan View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
people make ends meet? There’s no guarantee behind Social Security. Congress can do anything it wants to Social Security any day it wants. When you own assets, like treasury bills and mutual funds, the government can’t take that away from... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
namely, unions and public employee pension funds that, not surprisingly, favor the reform measures. “Big labor unions are trying to achieve at the board table what they cannot achieve at the negotiating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
driven by hard-charging entrepreneurs wielding private capital, the new one is driven by professional investors working for or on behalf of deep-pocketed institutions, like pension funds and endowments. Even... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
mandate that private sector employers auto-enroll their employees in a pension plan. In the span of six years, the number of people with pensions in the UK jumped by 10 million. But just opening the accounts... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Jay Light Named New HBS Dean
a degree in engineering physics, Light earned a DBA from Harvard’s joint program in decision and control theory in 1970. Light’s research and teaching have focused on capital markets and institutional asset management, including the management of View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
Corporation, a subsidiary of Citibank, that allows MBA students to borrow funds through a customized version of Citibank's private CitiAssist program. Citibank will be granted preferred lender status with MBA students at HBS, although... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Show Me The Money — Or Not
course, winning the contest is no guarantee of success. Conversely, a number of plans that failed to make the semifinals found success in the marketplace. Contest judges panned Stig Leschly’s (MBA 1997/JD 1998) plan for Exchange.com, an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
clear look at how a firm’s percentage of profits, or carry, is calculated and distributed. Then comes the heart of the matter: a number of insider tips any entrepreneur seeking funds must learn. For example, Bussgang advises money-seekers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170 billion in pension and mutual funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is giving a tax break, it should be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
challenge: There was no guarantee that the disease would still be prevalent by the time a vaccine became available. This had been the case with severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), a dangerous coronavirus identified in the Guangdong... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Advancing the Vision for HBS
the midpoint of this effort, I am delighted to welcome Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) and Mark Stevens (MBA 1989) as cochairs of the Campaign Leadership Committee. Their efforts will help the Campaign reach a successful conclusion—both View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
Courtesy Argos Pictures; iStock “Because Congress failed to make funds available for these loans, the plan I’m announcing today will be drawn from the financial rescue package Congress approved earlier this fall. The terms of the loans... View Details