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Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99) is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection Point form meaningful partnerships... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—Using panel data from the RAND Health and Retirement Study, I show that rejected applicants for Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) possess significantly more... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

investment professionals. Asset Allocation by Institutional Investors after the Recent Financial Crisis Authors:Robert C. Pozen, Betsy Palmer, and Natalie Shapiro Publication:In Growing Old: Paying for Retirement and Institutional Money... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

04 Sep 2019
News

Deep Dive

retiring as a commander in 2013. Vescovo had already earned a place in the annals of exploration. When he reached the peak of Everest in 2010, he became one of just a few hundred people to have climbed all Seven Summits, the tallest... View Details

Keywords: April White; photo by Jeff Wilson; Scientific Research and Development Services

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

CEO of Swatch Group, in early 2000 Biver began to sense that he might not receive the top position when Hayek retired. At the end of the case, Biver must decide whether he should leave the Swatch Group and retire himself, or possibly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

taxes. This strategy was implemented by a handful of men over those fifty years, most important among them John Cowperthwaite, who ran the trade and industry department after the war and then spent twenty years as deputy and then actual financial secretary before his... View Details

10 Mar 2015
News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

aware of it, the more likely it is they can talk about it openly and can make efforts to overcome it,” she says. In 1999, The Diana Project, cofounded by retired MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Myra Hart to study women... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

believed a fiber-optics revolution was coming. His hunch proved right, the company flourished, and Houghton retired after a successful 13-year tenure. But then came perhaps an even greater challenge. With the telecom meltdown and the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

by US Airways. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-088 T. Rowe Price and the Dell Inc. MBO (A) T. Rowe Price’s mutual funds, separate accounts, institutional investors, and View Details

05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/214006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-022 Searching for a Retirement Plan No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/314022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

His platoon also participated in the operation to rescue Army Pfc. Jessica Lynch. Taylor’s war record strikes an emotional chord with many conservative voters and veterans. “This guy is a true patriot,” says Nelson Modrall, a retired Army... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

manage in a higher-ambition way. Book Excerpt From Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value Val Gooding's experience and approach to collective leadership is particularly instructive. Over the twelve years from her arrival at BUPA in 1996 to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2008
News

Business at the Summit

’59), and was moderated by PBS’s Charlie Rose. Whitman, former CEO of eBay, noted that most Americans are “deeply afraid” as they watch energy and food costs rise and their retirement accounts shrink. More must be done, she said, to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

19 Aug 2021
News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

this one addressing a white audience, telling them exactly what they could be doing to help support the Black community. The positive response to that episode led Rogers, a retired senior lecturer to write his recent book, A Letter to My... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

be interesting to see how much their balance sheets have swelled when they start reporting their financial results. Let’s talk about the medical workforce, where we’ve seen medical students being called up early and doctors coming out of View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

techniques presented in them. Fifty-Five, Unemployed, and Faking Normal: Your Guide to a Better Retirement Life by Elizabeth White (MBA 1988) (EDWhite) You’re in your fifties and sixties and haven’t saved nearly enough to retire. You want... View Details

19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2022
News

Blissful Thinking

personally, too. As he began to dig into the research, the conclusions were unambiguous: “I needed to retire and dedicate myself to sharing knowledge,” recalls Brooks, who left AEI in 2019. Courtesy Arthur Brooks At HBS, he teaches the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

featuring women protagonists -with initial support from retired Kmart executive Marjorie Alfus and the Committee of 200 (a national organization of women business executives), the School has developed over three hundred cases that feature... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic financial concepts can be linked to lack of View Details