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04 May 2017
News

Going the Distance

turned to his first love—the ocean—for his next adventures, inspired in no small part by his daughter Lily, who was born in 2009 with a rare genetic disorder that has left her severely disabled. “My original idea of a typical retirement... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

Goldman, Sachs & Co. before starting his own California-based investment management firm in 1978. Since his retirement in1995, Clark has added more hands-on involvement to his longtime financial support of nonprofits. His efforts have... View Details

20 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

Tata & Sons helped revolutionize business practices in India. From instituting the eight-hour work day and paid leave to providing a retirement gratuity, Tata's policies created a standard to which other companies—and eventually... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

Lauder, founded Estée Lauder Cosmetics. By the time she retired from public life in the mid-1990s, this company had become one of the largest cosmetics manufacturers in the world and was recognized as one of the leading players in the... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Abstract A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

International Consultant at Arthur D. Little. Since we had met and married later than most, we decided we wanted to work together on a project that would combine a land use and an art form in a small business. As a result we established Sakonnet Vineyards in Little... View Details

Career Coach

Martha Tassinari

Martha (HBS '94) has been an executive coach and career counselor at HBS since 2007. She has helped thousands of MBA students, Alumni and Executive Education participants (GMP, PLD, OPM, New Path) identify and reach their career and professional development goals.... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Hospitality; Manufacturing; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Technology

Career Coach

Jonathan Shepherd

Jonathan is CPD's Corporate Relations Director overseeing principal investing: VC/PE, investment management and real estate. Since 2007, he has coached thousands of students & alumni and forged recruiting relationships with hundreds of firms across these... View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

The Long Run

on prescription drugs and heroin, it won’t take much to see significant ROI. Langford is driving again. The Camry has 96,000 miles on the odometer; despite his success in building and leading tech companies, Langford will admit that he did not time his investment exits... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

Workers Union received "new, unprecedented levels of job security, a new profit-sharing program, and an early retirement program — all of which had been identified as things the members of the union wanted." Process Matters If people are... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

their careers, while others are establishing new ventures. Some have retired early and become involved in nonprofit ventures, and others have gone into education, the ministry, art - the whole gamut." In the course of his recent... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

follow. "If you want to put resources toward helping the local community—fix the housing problem or whatever it might be— [stakeholders] might look at you and say, 'What do you mean? Where's the bottom line in that?' " said retired United... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

woes of the 1980s) has been ascribed to some or all of the following: excessive corporate bureaucracy, arrogance, and insularity; union obstinacy; exorbitant healthcare costs and retirement packages; bloated product lines and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

period between 1995 and 2008. In jobs closely linked to innovation and technology, the share of immigrants was even higher, closer to 24 percent. "Skilled immigration is important for the United States, where we do have a large Baby Boomer generation approaching View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

clusters covered in your research? A: One of the major trends in the world economy is the aging of populations, which will create the need for retirement living, health services, and no doubt many other goods and services. This may create... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

Photos by Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office Jay Light, the School’s ninth dean, retires in June after a distinguished forty-year career at HBS. As a young mission analyst at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California,... View Details

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

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

jobs." Luthra rebounded into other jobs, holding C-level positions at several multinationals. In 2001, 35 years after losing the IBM job, he took a gig as CEO of the broadband division at Enron India. Enron collapsed later that year, and along with his job, Luthra... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

01 Apr 2001
News

Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues

(MBA 1975), president of Women’s World Banking; Rena Clark (MBA 1990), chair and COO of QVS, Inc.; Judith R. Haberkorn (111th AMP), retired president of consumer sales and service at Verizon; Andrea Caren Silbert (MBA 1992), founder and... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

markets down. Instability in other parts of the world, such as a problematic breakup of the eurozone, could be another. With so many boomers retiring in the next few years, that is something else to worry about. The Dow, which was created... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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