Saving - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This

employee 401(k) contributions responded to savings information provided by their employers. The study was conducted to understand what kind of influence company-offered information can have. “We’ve uncovered a phenomenon that is probably... View Details

Keywords: Re: John Beshears; Financial Services

01 Sep 2008
News

Faculty Research Online

http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5950.html. Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings Saving money doesn’t need to be so difficult. According to Professor Peter Tufano, “The most interesting ideas — indeed the... View Details

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

22 Feb 2022
News

Addressing The Financial Security Gap

leadership, BlackRock’s Retirement Group, which manages $1.3 trillion in retirement assets for some 35 million Americans, has taken steps to address these issues. In 2020 they held the BlackRock Savings Summit, a virtual retirement... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2006
News

Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns

period projected at five years or less. Any Harvard unit or department may apply for the interest-free loans, which are repaid out of the savings generated by reductions in energy consumption, utility usage, and waste removal. HBS was one... View Details

Keywords: Paul Massari; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

12 Jan 2021
News

Keeping the Coast Clear

Photo courtesy Save the Bay Photo courtesy Save the Bay As executive director of the non-profit Save the Bay, Jonathan Stone (MBA 1984) leads the organization’s efforts to... View Details

Keywords: Fishing, Hunting and Trapping; Agriculture

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Company, topic, & industry alerts

innovative products and services. Distributed biweekly each semester. ABI/Inform: Run a search on the company, topic, or industry of interest. Click Save search/alert., then click Create alert (upper right, above the... View Details

18 Oct 2024
Blog Post

The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS

is happening. Most HBS students have internships between their first and second years. Not knowing where I was going to spend my summer when I started school (spoiler that I went back to Los Angeles), I didn’t want to be locked into a year-long lease and need to find a... View Details

11 May 2021
News

Pitching to Win

“This year has underscored the power of knowledge to save lives, to save communities, and to help lead us into what we hope will be a more normal future.” READ MORE View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2012
News

Plan B: The Brick Bank

Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS | MBA

(spoiler that I went back to Los Angeles), I didn’t want to be locked into a year-long lease and need to find a subletter to save money while I was away from Boston. The dorms are only 9-month leases, which gave me the summer flexibility... View Details

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

Article

The Effect of Dividends on Consumption

By: Malcolm Baker, Stefan Nagel and Jeffrey Wurgler

Classical models predict that the division of stock returns into dividends and capital appreciation does not affect investor consumption patterns, while mental accounting and other economic frictions predict that investors have a higher propensity to consume from... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Investment Return; Economics; Stocks; Capital; Business Earnings; Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Cost; Saving

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01 Mar 2006
News

The Real Conflict

prices are significantly lower than its competitors. Assuming the company’s prices are 8 percent lower — at the low end of the estimates from various studies summarized in a recent report by Global Insight — and applying that to Wal-Mart’s domestic sales volume, U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Pankaj Ghemawat; Ken A. Mark; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2009
News

HBS Philanthropy Report Online

This year, the School’s annual donor report will be published online. The change from a print publication reflects a cost savings consistent with a School-wide effort to contain expenses, as well as a desire for environmentally... View Details

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Technical How-To’s & Notes - Research Computing Services

Help Help Technical How-To’s & Notes 3ms Archiving Your Research Files on the HBSGrid Change your Unix command prompt Changing permissions on the HBSGrid Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid HBSGrid Project directory space notifications View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Plugged In

pretty surreal," says Camargo. But the day after the show, the reality of the challenge ahead of him remained: How, exactly, do you sell America a high-end electric car? 1. DITCH THE OLD PITCH The first wave of electric vehicles had a dual environmental and economic... View Details

Keywords: Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

October 2003 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Managing a 401(k) Fund

By: Richard S. Ruback and Kathleen Luchs

Focuses on an individual's decision to participate in his firm's 401(k) plan and how to invest his contributions. Plan participants have a choice of 10 mutual funds with different investment strategies. Includes data from Morningstar on the composition and performance... View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment; Saving; Asset Management; Financial Management; Decision Making; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry

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Educators

Purchase

Citizen’s Federal Savings Bank, as well the Booker T. Washington Business College. Throughout Gaston’s half-century leadership, BTW and its subsidiaries enjoyed tremendous success, with assets of $34 million and insurance in force of $726... View Details

Keywords: Finance

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Apr 2019
Webinars: Career

Why Your Pitch Isn't Working and How to Fix it

Whether you're pitching an idea, a project, or yourselfyou've got a tight window to hook your listener and pique their curiosity. Jodi Glickman, CEO of Great on the Job, shares a foolproof three-step strategy for pitching yourself in an authentic and compelling way. View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

consider the extent to which the evolution of these financial services have shaped personal opportunities and lifecycle planning—from the attainment of education during youth, to homeownership during middle age, to retirement savings... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

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