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Tag: Retirement
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Nation & World
We’re living longer so that just means we work longer, right?
The problem with working longer in life as a solution to affording retirement for a population living longer is that many, if not most, already don’t work until standard retirement age, a new book shows.
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Physics Department loses a center of gravity
Dedicated and beloved Harvard Physics Department staffer Carol Davis retires after five decades.
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More time free from disability
Harvard researchers are among the co-authors of a new study saying that the increase in life expectancy in the past two decades has been accompanied by an even greater increase in years free of disability, thanks in large measure to improvements in cardiovascular health and declines in vision problems.
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Shinagel’s legacy honored
Michael Shinagel was honored on May 14 for his accomplishments as dean of the Extension School, a position he has held since 1977. He will be retiring at the end of this academic year.
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Tom Everett to retire from Harvard
The Office for the Arts at Harvard and Harvard’s Department of Music announced that Thomas G. Everett, director of Harvard Bands since 1971, will retire Feb. 15. His Harvard career will be celebrated in various ways at the University, including a Jazz Bands concert dedicated to him on April 13 at 8 p.m. in Sanders…
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Middle class woe
The American middle class has been battered by the loss of well-paying jobs for the 70 percent of the workforce without a college degree and failed by would-be protectors in government and private institutions, said panelists in a Harvard forum on April 27.
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Decoding keys to a healthy life
Now 74 years young, the Harvard Study of Adult Development continues to yield a treasure trove of data about how people behave, and change — including predictions of strong indicators to a happy life.
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Designing a stronger safety net
A new series of free financial planning seminars, sponsored by the Harvard Benefits Office, aims to get employees thinking about retirement long before the last paycheck comes. The next session is April 7.
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Harvard College Librarian, Nancy Cline, to retire
After nearly 15 years of exceptional service, Nancy M. Cline, the Roy E. Larsen Librarian of Harvard College, will retire at the end of this academic year.
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Scholars venerable
Retired Harvard faculty, some with astonishing personal stories, are windows onto a vanishing past, even as many continue to work in their fields.
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Hardly the retiring kind
A vital resource, the Harvard University Retirees Association keeps former employees connected to the University’s vast resources, and to each other.
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46 faculty enter retirement program
Forty-six faculty members have elected to take advantage of Harvard’s faculty retirement program, with longer phased retirement options the most popular choice.
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Faculty Council meeting held Oct. 27
At its fifth meeting of the year on Oct. 27, the Faculty Council heard details of the forthcoming faculty retirement plan.
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The backdrop on retirement funds
David Laibson, who serves on Harvard’s Retirement Investment Committee, spoke with the Harvard Gazette recently about upcoming changes to the University’s retirement investment options.
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New retirement investing options
Harvard reshuffles its retirement fund lineup, trimming the number of individual options while introducing adaptive “lifecycle funds.” The University will allow investment-savvy employees to invest in thousands of additional mutual funds through a new brokerage account option.
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James Houghton: ‘I had the best time in the world’
James Houghton, senior fellow of the Harvard Corporation, is stepping down from his post at the end of June. He reflected on his long Harvard association during an interview.
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Q&A with retiring HBS Dean Jay Light
On Dec. 2, Jay Light, who has been dean of the Business School for the past five years, told the HBS faculty that he is retiring in June. After shepherding the School through some of the most demanding times in its history, he said he was looking forward to having more time to write, to…
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Rock of ages
Anderson Lab manager Lenny Solomon is retiring in December after more than three decades helping guide people and projects.
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Harvard unleashes a historic sacred cow
Retiring Harvard professor Harvey Cox, who for 44 years has held the oldest endowed chair at a US university finally lay claim to the Hollis Professor of Divinity’s centuries-old right to graze his cow in Harvard Yard, which a colleague of his said was the equivalent of parking privileges in the 1700s.