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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...
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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.)
- 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...
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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...
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Siriwardane, Emil, Juliane Begenau, and Yuval Gonczarowski. "Asset Allocation at the Cook County Pension Fund." Harvard Business School Case 218-030, September 2017. (Revised July 2021.)
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
- 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...
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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
- 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...
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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
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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Martha Lagace
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Giving - Alumni
support—and have a far-reaching impact. By Credit Card By Check By Wire Transfer With Stock Donor-Advised Fund International Giving From Your IRA HBS accepts MasterCard, Visa, American Express, and Discover Online Give Online Give online via Harvard's View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
Fellowship was established in honor of Nolan Archibald (MBA 1970), who is the retired chairman, president, and CEO of Black & Decker. When appointed president and chief executive officer in March 1986 at the age of 42, Archibald was the...
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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
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Ways to Give Today - Alumni
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...
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
Customer Value and Value Chain (12) Customers (103) Customization and Personalization (3) Debt Securities (1) Decision Choices and Conditions (39) Decision Making (227) Decisions (6) Demand and Consumers (222) Demography (7) Design (10)...
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- 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...
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 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...
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
draw equivalencies between our grading scale and an A-F grading scale. If you are an organization that requires proof of satisfactory completion to process reimbursements, any employee who earns a Pass (or higher) has met our requirements...
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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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by Danielle Kost