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- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
the value of the fund’s assets and secure the retirement benefits for thousands of Cook County’s employees? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218030-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 818-031 Bitfury:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended sales cycle when selling pieces to collectors. Though it remains profitable and very respected, the size and scope of the gallery will be brought into question when Barbara Krakow, its founder,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
these conventions, pension assets and liabilities are not included in balance sheet calculations. The modern risk management tools of derivatives technologies can improve both corporate decision making and external analysis of corporations. The Future of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
was age. Race. Education turns out to be the most important predictor of your health span going forward. And for too long, people just looked at everybody in the same state, the retirement stage or in those years as everybody being the... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
current context, some within the group wondered if that was the right way for SOS Group to measure and scale its social impact. Compounding these issues, Borello, whose opportunistic acquisition strategy had shaped SOS Group throughout its life, was considering View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
will continue. "The financial functions of the system, whether providing for retirement or transactions, still have to be performed. This is a global and growing business, and it's one that can have very significant impact on... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
there'll be a lot of entrepreneurs who'll create these markets. The analogy is in the mutual fund market. Vanguard came along with the 401(k), and John Bogle, the amazing man who created Vanguard, knew that consumers were going to have to shop for View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
by Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Takashi Yasui Sato-san’s hospital bed is wedged diagonally across his living room, relics of regular life pushed to the perimeter. For four years the retired accountant traveled back and forth to a... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
consequences over the next 10 or 20 years. We keep that long-term impact in mind as we explore new technology investments for our network." They both note a shift taking place as more nontraditional hires, like themselves, replace View Details
- 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
- Web
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
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
Monday, after this interview took place, waded into the discussion by opposing how the proposal would change the treatment of certain retirement funds.) Weinzierl: I don't see anything particularly that bears his fingerprints.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Penelope RossanoHarvard Business School Case 712-490 On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs tragically died of cancer. The recently retired CEO of Apple Inc. was a legend: he had changed Apple from a company near bankruptcy to one of the largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
estate development during his playing career, and now, as a retired player, is trying to pursue the development of a 10-unit rental apartment building in a depressed area of Philadelphia, his hometown. The case presents the process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Cash By Christopher Kawaja (MBA 2004) and Shannon Matthiesen Independently published Most of us know how to balance the immediate needs of a checking account or to invest long term for our retirement plans. But financial advice falls... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Judith Kates; and brothers Seth and Paul. Memorial donations may be made to Congregation Rodeph Sholom, 7 West 83rd St., New York, New York 10024. Donald A. Peterson (2nd OPM) Donald A. Peterson (2nd OPM) of Spring Lake, New Jersey, was the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 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
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman