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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Prof’s Dream Comes True
Tufano Tax refunds can now be channeled into the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, a policy victory for HBS professor Peter Tufano (left), founder and president of the nonprofit Doorway to Dreams Fund (D2D) that has worked for years to... View Details
- June 2013 (Revised August 2013)
- Background Note
Note on Pension Guarantee Funds
By: Robert C. Pozen and Patricia Bissett Higgins
The United States and the United Kingdom both had quasi-government agencies that provided back-up insurance for individuals participating in defined benefit ("DB") pension plans. This note compares and contrasts the United Kingdom's Pension Protection Fund ("PPF") with... View Details
Keywords: Pensions; Pension Guarantee Funds; Pension Protection Fund; Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation; Employee Retirement Income Security Act; PBGC; ERISA; MAP-21; Legislation; Insurance; Saving; Retirement; Labor; Labor and Management Relations; Employees; Insurance Industry; United States; United Kingdom
Pozen, Robert C., and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Note on Pension Guarantee Funds." Harvard Business School Background Note 313-139, June 2013. (Revised August 2013.)
- 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
Ruback, Richard S., and Kathleen Luchs. "Managing a 401(k) Fund." Harvard Business School Case 204-077, October 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
particularly for investors with large tax-deferred savings vehicles, the asset location decision has a relatively large impact on retirement wealth. With some allowance for institutional differences between defined benefit pension plans... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 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
- 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
families save to withstand economic shocks. Lawmakers should consider an option by which they could help quell the recent chaos, raise as much as $250 billion a year, strengthen families, and enhance civic engagement. It’s simple: Just... View Details
- 2009
- Working Paper
Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?
By: Shawn A. Cole, Thomas Sampson and Bilal Zia
Financial development is critical for growth, but its micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Saving; Knowledge Acquisition; Emerging Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry; India; Indonesia
Cole, Shawn A., Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia. "Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-117, April 2009. (Revised October 2009, September 2010, October 2010.)
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Innovation: Crowdfunding College Costs
Named godfather to his best friend's infant daughter in 2011, Marcos Cordero (MBA 2005) wanted to give something more meaningful and long-lasting than a stuffed animal or onesie. He investigated contributing to his goddaughter's college View Details
- 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
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
difficult to save money or establish a financial history. Goodwin-Groen’s career-long commitment to international development led her to start the Better Than Cash Alliance—now a consortium of 75 governments, corporations, and... 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
Maggie L. Walker
Walker first organized an insurance company within the Order of St. Luke to help curb the problems suffered by many families when their major income-earners passed away. Capitalizing on the success of the insurance company, she went on to form the Penny View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?
wealthiest households. It's not that low-income families have a terrible savings rate, explained Tufano. In fact, within Individual Development Accounts (described below), poor families have a 2.2% savings... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 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 Jun 2000
- News
Priceline's Jay Walker: The Future is Wow
The future of e-commerce will be shaped by a new generation of companies that can consistently deliver convenience, information, entertainment, and savings -- an as-yet-unrealized package that will have an impact summed up by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Making a Difference in the World
million would be saved in annual energy costs. If each household replaced its appliances with the most efficient available, $15 billion of savings in energy costs would result. The top 3,000 public companies... View Details
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Sharing a Strategic Perspective | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Sharing a Strategic Perspective Stepping back from the day-to-day demands of leading Save the Children is an opportunity Carolyn Miles doesn’t get very often. “We are all incredibly immersed in our work here,” says Miles, who serves as... View Details
- Web
Finding a Time Series of Stock Prices in CRSP | Baker Library
boxes in this step as is Step Four: Output Choose Tab-delimited text (*.txt) format Leave all other boxes in this step as is Click Submit Query Data Request Summary window will open Right mouse click on the highlighted file name Choose View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
Humans can be self-destructive. We overindulge in food and fail to make time to exercise, and we delay saving for retirement. Associate Professor John Beshears, whose research focuses on behavioral economics, has identified hope: The idea... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint