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  • 2008
  • Chapter

The Importance of Default Options for Retirement Saving Outcomes: Evidence from the United States

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
This paper summarizes the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement savings outcomes. After outlining the salient features of the various sources of retirement income in the U.S., the paper presents the empirical evidence on how defaults impact retirement... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Financial Condition; Retirement; Investment Funds; Microeconomics; Outcome or Result; Government and Politics; Financial Institutions; Macroeconomics; United States
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  • 14 Nov 2012
  • News

Remembering His Roots

Curiel: Investing in young people who grew up as migrant farmworkers. Photo courtesy Martin Curiel Martin Curiel (MBA 2004) wants you to invest in dreams. Through the Rising Farmworkers Dream Fund (RFDF),... View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
  • 13 Nov 2014
  • Blog Post

Finance Conference Recap

Over 400 attendees registered for the event, which featured three keynote speakers and six panels through the course of the day. The opening speaker was Mr. Doug Braunstein, current Vice Chairman at J.P. Morgan Chase. With experience in View Details
  • Web

Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the direction, mission, policies, and major programs of nonprofit organizations. More on SPNM Impact Stories Sharing a Strategic Perspective Carolyn Miles SPNM 2008 HBS Club of Chicago Charitable Fund: Working with Chicago Children’s Choir Josephine Lee View Details

    Richard H. Jenrette

    Jenrette founded DLJ in 1959 with Harvard Business School classmates William Donaldson and Dan Lufkin. Under Jenrette’s direction, the firm concentrated on in-depth analysis for institutional investors. In the process, DLJ raised business... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 02 Oct 2008
    • What Do You Think?

    Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

    In it, they advocate focus, immediate funding, and the U.S. government as shareholder. You might think of it as "Buffett Squared." The government would engage "experienced and disinterested professionals—not politicians" to invest in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • Web

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

    Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Going Public: Herman I. Safin

    Lee. After two years working as an analyst in the Financial Institutions Group at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York, Safin was given the option to become an assistant to the CFO or an associate in View Details
    Keywords: Amy E. Dean
    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    Outside Voices

    and banks that had nearly collapsed have been cleaned up and are once again fueling the economy. In late 2023, Greece’s credit rating was bumped from junk to investment grade for the first time since 2010, signaling to foreign investors... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece
    • 12 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 12

    We explore which organizations are particularly likely to resist, or acquiesce to, new institutional pressures that arise from mandatory information disclosure regulations. We hypothesize that when information is disclosed about... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 2010
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Why Takeover Vulnerability Matters to Debtholders

    By: Joan Farre-Mensa
    Recent work documents that firms that are more vulnerable to takeover have higher borrowing costs. This paper investigates the reasons behind this stylized fact. My results show that firms with few antitakeover defenses face a higher cost of debt because lenders are... View Details
    Keywords: Acquisition; Borrowing and Debt; Cost; Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management; Agreements and Arrangements; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution
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    • March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
    • Case

    Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

    By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
    Supplements the (A) case. View Details
    Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile
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    • 25 Jun 2014
    • News

    An International Perspective

    engineering science from the California Institute of Technology, Waite spent several years with the Royal Dutch Shell Group in a variety of technical and project management roles in Norway, the Netherlands, the United States, and Egypt. A... View Details
    • June 2001 (Revised December 2006)
    • Case

    Role of Capital Market Intermediaries in the Dot-Com Crash of 2000, The

    By: Krishna G. Palepu and Gillian D Elcock
    Set in the context of the rise and fall of the Internet stocks in the United States. View Details
    Keywords: Stocks; Price Bubble; Capital Markets; Investment Banking; Information Technology Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

    institutions can be developed which focus the uncoordinated actions of individual households and firms as well as voters and politicians on good, rather than bad, overall outcomes. Such institutions are key... View Details
    • Web

    From the Chief Financial Officer | Annual Report 2024

    noteworthy considering the challenges that confronted HBS and other academic institutions this year, from an economic landscape marked by higher operating costs to an increasingly complex global political climate that created pressure on... View Details
    • 01 Apr 1998
    • News

    New Releases

    including Hewlett-Packard, Ford Motor Company, Kirin Brewery Co., and Procter & Gamble - that have successfully implemented such systems. Cost & Effect describes systems that help frontline employees to improve their daily operations and help managers to make smarter... View Details

      Rick Grinnell

      Rick Grinnell is Founder and Managing Partner of Glasswing Ventures, focused on investing in AI-enabled security and enterprise infrastructure. As an experienced venture capitalist and operator, Rick has View Details
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Do Analysts Follow Managers Who Switch Companies? An Analysis of Relationships in the Capital Markets.

      By: Francois Brochet, Gregory S. Miller and Suraj Srinivasan
      We examine the importance of professional relationships developed between analysts and managers by investigating analyst coverage decisions in the context of CEO and CFO moves between publicly listed firms. We find that top executive moves from an origin firm to a... View Details
      Keywords: Business and Stakeholder Relations; Capital Markets; Decisions; Managerial Roles; Financial Institutions; Investment; Market Participation; Public Ownership; Relationships
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      • 01 Jun 2004
      • News

      Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson

      When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by consolidations, Paulson didn’t miss a beat:... View Details
      Keywords: Goldman Sachs; Finance