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  • 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
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  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

of a perceived threat. The organization turned against these workers as if they were the ones causing the problems.” Acting on a complaint from a French labor union, a French prosecutor in 2009 opened an inquiry. Lombard appeared on TV... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • September 2017 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Asset Allocation at the Cook County Pension Fund

By: Emil Siriwardane, Juliane Begenau and Yuval Gonczarowski
Nickol Hackett, chief investment officer of the Cook County Pension Fund, is responsible for investing the fund’s $9 billion worth of assets on behalf of the employees of Cook County, Illinois. Like many other defined-benefit pensions at the time, the Cook County... View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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    Regina E. Herzlinger

    Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

    Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health
    • 17 Jul 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: July 17

    offset by a tax on noncorporate business income and an expansion of taxable income. Topics include tax-avoidance techniques, globalization, repatriation taxes, corporate social responsibility, and U.S. workers. Graphs are included, which... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      W. Carl Kester

      Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
      • 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... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 03 Mar 2008
      • First Look

      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
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      Giving - Alumni

      individual retirement account (IRA) to make a gift to HBS of up to $105,000 per year. Special one-time opportunity: You can make a gift of up to $53,000 from your IRA to establish a Harvard gift annuity that will pay you annual View Details
      • Web

      Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
      • 29 Jun 2007
      • First Look

      First Look: June 29, 2007

        Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Web

      HBS - The year in Review

      highly competitive, at 13 percent and 3 percent, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2022 were awarded to 817 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,794. MBA CLASS OF 2023 Students 1,013 Applications 9,773 Acceptance Rate 13% View Details
      • Web

      Ways to Give Today - Alumni

      and Discover. Online Give Online Give online via Harvard's secure donation form Online LOG IN TO GIVE Recommended for all alumni and required for international credit card gifts Give Without Login For US-based donors only—no personal... View Details
      • 19 Dec 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

      Inflation Reduction Act This bonus episode features the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program’s CleanLaw podcast, where professors Jody Freeman (Harvard) and Greg Dotson (University of Oregon) talk about the US Inflation... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost
      • 15 Jun 2021
      • News

      Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

      Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. Later, as a student at HBS, Stavros studied ESOPs: their initial... View Details
      Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management
      • Web

      Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

      Satisfaction (23) Customer Value and Value Chain (12) Customers (104) Customization and Personalization (3) Debt Securities (1) Decision Choices and Conditions (43) Decision Making (240) Decisions (10) Demand and Consumers (223)... View Details
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      HBS - The year in Review

      Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 15% and 4%, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2023 were awarded to 947 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,992. MBA CLASS OF 2024 Students 1,015 Applications 8,264 Acceptance... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2023
      • News

      Thinking Ahead

      find a product-market fit with Systole.” Keep Secrets from AI Generative AI’s capacity to transform business operations continues to be a hot topic, with a strong caveat in the form of threats to data security and privacy. Assistant... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
      • 01 Oct 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

      this book undertook major restructurings without being in a financial crisis. Compared to the rest of the U.S. airline industry, United Air Lines was in relatively strong financial condition when its employees agreed to almost $5 billion... View Details
      Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
      • 21 Apr 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: April 21, 2009

      politician's party base also helps secure important positions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-006.pdf The Cost of Property Rights: Establishing Institutions on the Philippine Frontier Under American Rule, 1898-1918... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace