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- July 2013
- Teaching Note
Searching for a Retirement Plan
By: Robert C. Pozen and Lucas Goodman
Keywords: Retirement
- July 19, 2011
- Article
Retirement Challenges for Financial Advisers
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "Retirement Challenges for Financial Advisers." Registered Rep (July 19, 2011).
- October 1995
- Case
State Street Bank Retirement Fund
By: Richard F. Meyer
Meyer, Richard F. "State Street Bank Retirement Fund." Harvard Business School Case 296-026, October 1995.
- October 1981 (Revised January 1994)
- Case
Golden Gate Bank Retirement Fund
By: David E. Bell
Bell, David E. "Golden Gate Bank Retirement Fund." Harvard Business School Case 182-086, October 1981. (Revised January 1994.)
- 14 Oct 2021
- News
Disney’s Alan Horn to Retire
Longtime Disney studio head Alan Horn (MBA 1971) announced this week that he is set to retire at the end of this year. Holding the official title chief creative officer of Disney Studios Content, his deep impact on the company was... View Details
- July 2013
- Case
Searching for a Retirement Plan
By: Robert C. Pozen and Lucas Goodman
Pozen, Robert C., and Lucas Goodman. "Searching for a Retirement Plan." Harvard Business School Case 314-022, July 2013.
- July 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Teaching Note
Fidelity Retires in Canada (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Edward Warren Scott
Teaching Note for 311023. View Details
Keywords: Canada
- 01 Apr 2008
- News
Your Retiring Clients' Biggest Fear
- August 2021
- Article
The Undervalued Power of Self-relevant Research: The Case of Researching Retirement While Retiring
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Douglas T. (Tim) Hall
For decades, training in management research has emphasized objectivity, typically viewed as an arm’s length distance between the topic of the research and the interests of the researcher. This emphasis has led most scholars to avoid research topics of deep personal... View Details
Keywords: Qualitative Research Methods; Case Research Methods; Organizational Behavior; Careers; Career Changes And Transitions; Self-relevant Research; Research; Personal Development and Career; Transition; Identity; Retirement
Amabile, Teresa M., and Douglas T. (Tim) Hall. "The Undervalued Power of Self-relevant Research: The Case of Researching Retirement While Retiring." Academy of Management Perspectives 35, no. 3 (August 2021): 347–366.
- 07 Feb 2013
- News
Monopoly retires iconic iron piece
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Longtime Harvard Athletic Director Retires
Bob Scalise (MBA 1989), who has spent more than four decades working in various roles at Harvard, announced that he will be stepping down at the end of the calendar year. As noted by the Harvard Gazette, Scalise spent his last 19 years at the school as director of the... View Details
- Article
Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison
By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We compare the liquidity that six developed countries have built into their employer-based defined contribution (DC) retirement schemes. In Germany, Singapore, and the UK, withdrawals are essentially banned no matter what kind of transitory income shock the household... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Financial Liquidity; Retirement; Canada; Germany; Australia; United Kingdom; United States; Singapore
Beshears, John, James J. Choi, Joshua Hurwitz, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Liquidity in Retirement Savings Systems: An International Comparison." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 420–425.
- 03 Dec 2009
- News
Harvard business dean to retire
- 2007
- Chapter
The Future of Retirement and Planning
By: Robert C. Merton
Merton, Robert C. "The Future of Retirement and Planning." In The Future of Life-Cycle Saving and Investing, edited by Zvi Bodie, Dennis McLeavey, and Laurence B. Siegel. CFA Institute, Research Foundation, 2007.
- November 2021
- Article
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?
By: Ayse Yemiscigil, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Ashley V. Whillans
Does retirement lead to an existential crisis or present an opportunity to experience a renewed sense of purpose in life? Prior research has documented a negative association between retirement and sense of purpose in life, suggesting that retirement could lead people... View Details
Yemiscigil, Ayse, Nattavudh Powdthavee, and Ashley V. Whillans. "The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?" Psychological Science 32, no. 11 (November 2021): 1856–1864.
- May 2025
- Case
RTX's Lifetime Income Strategy: Shaping the Future of Retirement
By: Daniel Green, Luis M. Viceira and Sarah Mehta
Set in 2024, this case explores the Lifetime Income Strategy (LIS), a novel retirement product launched by aerospace and defense company RTX in 2012. Aiming to embed the security of a traditional pension within a 401(k) plan, the LIS allowed participants to secure a... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Compensation and Benefits; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Jobs and Positions; Labor; Retirement; Society; Adoption; Aerospace Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Virginia
Green, Daniel, Luis M. Viceira, and Sarah Mehta. "RTX's Lifetime Income Strategy: Shaping the Future of Retirement." Harvard Business School Case 225-016, May 2025.
- 11 Sep 2016
- News
How to Get More Pleasure Out of Retirement Spending
- Article
Using Fresh Starts to Nudge Increased Retirement Savings
By: John Beshears, Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman and Shlomo Benartzi
We conducted a field experiment to study the effect of framing future moments in time as new beginnings (or “fresh starts”). University employees (N=6,082) received mailings with an opportunity to choose between increasing their contributions to a savings plan... View Details
Keywords: Choice Architecture; Randomized Field Experiment; Savings; New Beginning; Fresh Start; Saving; Retirement; Behavior
Beshears, John, Hengchen Dai, Katherine L. Milkman, and Shlomo Benartzi. "Using Fresh Starts to Nudge Increased Retirement Savings." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 167 (November 2021): 72–87.
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
choice of non-pension assets or capital structure. In the late 1990s, as the focus of tax-deferred investing drifted away from defined benefit plans and toward individually managed retirement accounts, a number of people, including John... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Pasricha on the Perils of Retirement
In a recent interview with WBUR, author Neil Pasricha (MBA 2007) argues that retirement “is a terrible idea.” Inspired by anecdotal examples of people whose health failed shortly after retirement, Pasricha—author of the bestselling book... View Details