retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2007
News

James McKenney Remembered

full professor in 1968 and was named the John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration in 1989. He retired from the active faculty in 1996. McKenney introduced the first computer-based simulation exercise, the Business Game, to the... View Details

Keywords: Information

01 Jun 2010
News

M.I.A. Boards

September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing a complicated financial... View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

01 Dec 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

As he says, "Linking management fees/rewards to fund performance would be very attractive to investors: Who can argue with shared ambition?" The importance of these questions lies in the heavy reliance that so many people deep into saving for View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Mar 2023
News

Giving Hope and Comfort

bigger challenge today is sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. Today, Hope and Comfort is still one of the few nonprofits distributing hygiene products, says Feingold, who retired from his... View Details

09 Nov 2022
News

Part Ownership of a Dream

Woodford Racing. Two days after the Breeders’ Cup, with Flightline’s retirement announced (he will stand at stud at Woodford Racing), Finley sold 2.5 percent of West Point’s 17.5 percent share (which is further distributed amongst seven... View Details

Keywords: horse racing; entpreneurship; leadership; finance; investing; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2003
News

New Book Recounts Storied Class of ’49

Business. At their 25th Reunion, nearly one-fourth of the class were presidents or CEOs of their respective companies, and more remarkable in today’s era of the disposable CEO, nearly one-third of the class would retire in such roles.... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton

2012
Article

The Excess Burden of Government Indecision

By: Francisco J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and Luis M. Viceira

Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions relative to what would arise with early policy resolution. In so doing, it... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Portfolio; Decision Choices and Conditions; Retirement; Policy; Government and Politics

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August 2010 (Revised September 2011)
Background Note

Retiree Pension and Health Benefits

By: David F. Hawkins

Note on accounting for retiree pension and health benefits under IFRS and U.S. GAAP. View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Standards; Retirement; United States

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19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed catch up with the United States in the form of fewer medical... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

continue to learn, and plan for the long term rather than retirement at 30. "The economic changes allow us to change the rules and make new rules," said panelist and HBS professor David A. Thomas. "More students are really... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

01 Dec 2003
News

An Authentic Leader

revenues were less than $750 million. In short order, he became CEO and chairman. When he retired at age 59 in 2001, the company employed 28,000 and revenues exceeded $6.7 billion. George attributes the company’s success to maintaining an... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

Cohen and Breno Schmidt Abstract We explore a new channel for attracting inflows using a unique dataset of corporate 401(k) retirement plans and their mutual fund family trustees. Families secure substantial inflows by being named trustee... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2002
News

Small Club, Big Impact

retired businessman, is still recovering from complications resulting from an attack in Nigeria last year. “I think some people have to make the sacrifice and go back if things are going to change,” he remarks. “With that said, I have... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Spangler Center Groundbreaking

project possible. Attending the event with his family, C.D. ("Dick") Spangler, Jr. (MBA '56), the retired president of the University of North Carolina, spoke eloquently of his family's respect for the School and his affection for the... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

The Levitt Brand

Business Administration, Emeritus, Levitt has published a total of 25 articles in HBR, in addition to authoring or coauthoring eight books and numerous other writings. He retired from the HBS faculty in 1990. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Max Seel

"that have unique bonding properties relevant to drug delivery." The other encounter became "the most life-changing experience" of his life: serving as a personal aide to a retired professor with Parkinson's disease.... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values

classroom. “Dean Clark understands that ethics is the practical application of character,” said Chao. “And only character can help us resist the temptations that are out there.” Noting that the Labor Department is the “regulatory watchdog for many of the nation's View Details

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

suggest that the mere provision of information on peer health behaviors can have perverse effects on one's health behavior." To learn more, see Converging to the Lowest Common Denominator in Physical Health by Leslie John and Michael Norton. If you have resolved to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

Viceira Publication:Chapter 5 in Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs, edited by Annamaria Lusardi. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Abstract The U.S. retirement... View Details