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- 08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007
CEO takes charge, remaining top managers are more likely than not to be shown the door. Those who leave often land in a lower position at a new company, work in a much smaller firm, or retire altogether. The news is not all grim, however....
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Martha Lagace
- 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....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
by US Airways. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/417054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-088 T. Rowe Price and the Dell Inc. MBO (A) T. Rowe Price’s mutual funds, separate accounts, institutional investors, and View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/214006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 314-022 Searching for a Retirement Plan No abstract available. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/314022-PDF-ENG Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)—the largest public pension fund in the U.S.—had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
(B4): Lee Iacocca—Driving Impact Lee Iacocca, a successful CEO of an auto company, devoted himself after retirement to several social causes. Describes issues in the transition. Purchase this case:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
older generation, the Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, struggled to define the next phase of their lives. For many, this meant dealing with the large—sometimes-crippling—losses to their retirement savings wrought by the financial...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
little or no control over which companies the fund manager or plan fiduciary selects for the portfolio. Indeed, managers of pension funds subject to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) may feel legally constrained...
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by Carla Tishler
- 11 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?
then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, who taught...
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by Michael Blanding
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
more like a DB plan in the near future. Although this chapter focuses on a U.S. context and corporate pension plans, retirement and asset-management issues are a global challenge, and indeed, while the details vary across geopolitical...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
becoming a staff member. But I ended up retiring from Wall Street and being the president and CEO of ACCION International, which I then ran for seven years." In 2000 he handed the reins to "a superb number two" and with...
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by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at retirement and in their mortality rates after retirement. I propose a simple but flexible theoretical framework...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 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
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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...
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- 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
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
116-007 Dollar General Bids for Family Dollar In spring 2015, Dollar General's CEO Rick Dreiling was looking ahead to retiring at year's end but worried about ensuring continued growth for the company he had built since 2008 into a market...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/PEL073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-102 AIP Healthcare Japan: Investing in Japan's Retirement Home Market The CEO of a health-care based REIT is considering alternative nursing home...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
retirement in February 2017. The case illustrates how even companies with stellar products can underperform and how benchmarking and financial analysis can help identify drivers of firm performance. The case describes how boards and...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
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...
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Martha Lagace