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Career Coach

Scott Renner

Scott (Wharton ’94) is an Associate Director in HBS Career Professional Development, where he manages the MBA and Alumni Career Coaching program, and serves as Sector Manager for General Management/Operations. Scott’s primary focus is coaching students and alumni... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing; Real Estate

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

report. Doriot retired from HBS in 1966. 22 In 1979, the Professor Emeritus was invited back to campus to give a refresher course, and throngs of colleagues and former students filled the lecture hall. Throughout his life, Doriot remained... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

of Hazleton Laboratories Corporation, a Virginia research and laboratory-services company, Nielsen returned to his native Washington State. “I had retired early and decided to devote the balance of my working life to something totally... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

school or relatives who had contracted the virus. Others were laid off, many for reasons we’ll probably never know. Others took advantage of the pandemic to retire early from the paid workforce. These phenomena were even more marked for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 May 2019
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Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

see,” says Dan Napoli, a retired Merrill partner. Bloomberg LP has grown into a global company with nearly 20,000 employees in 120 countries and is the primary source of information for the global financial system. By all accounts,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

06 Sep 2016
News

The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards

By Beth Stewart (MBA 1982), CEO Trewstar Corporate Board Services and Ilene H. Lang (MBA 1973), retired CEO, Catalyst and senior advisor to Trewstar We take as given that modern, well-run boards recognize myriad reasons to include diverse... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

the Latin American perspective and, through networking, facilitates its development. Both groups are very important to us. What drew you to this job? For some time, I've been planning an early retirement from business so that I could get... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

2012
Chapter

The Availability and Utilization of 401(k) Loans

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian

We document the loan provisions in 401(k) savings plans and how participants use 401(k) loans. Although only about 22% of savings plan participants who are allowed to borrow from their 401(k) have such a loan at any given point in time, almost half had used a 401(k)... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Finance; Retirement; Financing and Loans; Microeconomics

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May 1993
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Alan Stein

By: Carl S. Sloane, Shoshana Zuboff and R.Keith Giarman

Deals with issues of adult and career development at mid-life. Describes the career and personal history of an adult male, choice points in his life, and how he made critical career and personal choices. Focuses in on his decision to "retire" from Goldman, Sachs at an... View Details

Keywords: Transition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Personal Development and Career; Retirement; Satisfaction

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Find at Harvard

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

(C):http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411008-PDF-ENG Fidelity Retires in Canada Robert C. Pozen and Edward ScottHarvard Business School Case 311-023 The head of Fidelity Canada was faced with a decision about what to do with its View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads

audience’s attention and empathy, but that failed to offer a compelling reason to believe in and purchase the product. A notable exception was an ad for E-Trade that deftly used many Americans’ post-Great Recession concerns about the safety of their View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Telecommunications

01 Sep 2004
News

Richard J. Stillman (MBA 1940)

assignments relating to organization and training, and eventually assumed command of the 20th Infantry Regiment. In 1965, I retired from the military and became a professor of management and business at Ohio University. Two years later, I... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Pearson Hunt

special issue when Dean Donham announced that he would retire - ending a term that began in 1919. With the help of numerous faculty (especially Malcolm McNair), we put together an issue with tributes to this many-sided man from a long... View Details

Keywords: Pearson Hunt

01 Oct 2002
News

John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

Smiles all around: Guatemalan schoolchildren enjoy the fruits of their labor. photo courtesy John Batcha Batcha in his Charlotte, North Carolina, garden with his grandchildren, Nicole and David Spencer. photo by Roger Ball When he retired... View Details

19 Feb 2020
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Running a Decathlon

Vice President George H. W. Bush, where they were honored for their contributions to children’s education. Patton ultimately became president of Unisys Corporation, from which he retired in 1996; he also has served as non-executive chair... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Feb 2001
News

New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated

many black students to attend the School. Fitzhugh retired from Pepsi in 1974 but remained active with the company and within the community for many years. He was recognized for his achievements with numerous awards, including honorary... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Ann S. Moore

Inc., the country’s largest magazine publisher, until her retirement in 2010. In her keynote address to the W50 Summit, a 2013 celebration of the 50th anniversary of women in HBS’s two-year MBA Program, Moore advised: “Where you are... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship

01 Sep 2007
News

Paulson Speaks on China at HBS

has been named president of Brigham Young University–Hawaii. Wheelwright retired from the HBS faculty in 2000 after 22 years to become president of the London Mission of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. In 2003, he... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

17 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

Lehman Brothers reduced their lending to a greater extent. Nobel Laureate Panel Discussion: What Retirement Means to Me Authors:Robert C. Merton, Paul A. Samuelson, and Robert M. Solow Publication:Chap. 1 in The Future of Life-Cycle... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2000
News

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

created value in the for-profit marketplace and want to take a similar approach with philanthropy," Emerson asserts. Joining this group of philanthropists are baby boomers, who are "entering their retirement years very engaged," Emerson... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

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