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- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
don’t have enough capital to invest in the best deals. Why don’t we have the ability to get the same returns as infrastructure limited partnerships or banks or private equity firms?” Here’s the thesis: Nisha has found only two managed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
Global Health Care (BIG), an Executive Education program that attracted, among others, the Nigerian and Liberian ministers of health, the founders of South Africa's second-largest health insurance firm, a highly successful Russian... View Details
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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
networked resource. (Harvard users only: Harvard ID and University PIN required). Larson, Henrietta. Jay Cooke, Private Banker . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1936. Marsh, E. A. and Waltham Watch Company. The Original... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Eyes in the Skies
custom-built satellites and a proprietary analytics platform to gather and analyze satellite images for commercial customers. Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew Minnick credits several technological advances with putting space-based reconnaissance within... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
established an insurance plan that insures many rural poor in two large, populous states in India for the equivalent of ten cents a day: "The numbers of people are so large, that for ten cents a day the... View Details
- Profile
Marla Malcolm Beck
there.” At Berkeley, Beck majored in political economy and was enthralled by comparative economics. After graduation in 1995, she joined McKinsey & Co. where her leadership qualities flourished. On one major engagement with an View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
life insurance practices led to an investigation in New York State that threatened to curtail growth in the industry. Charles Evans Hughes guided the four-month-long Armstrong Investigation, which made startling revelations and offered a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
“You are seeing meaningful renewable programs in most states, and that’s both good news and bad news.” Using the example of her own company, a private equity firm investing in the energy sector, she explained the challenges of working... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Business School Case 817-088 Hygeia Group: Delivering Quality Care in Nigeria Fola Laoye is the Group Managing Director of Hygeia Group, a Nigerian healthcare insurer and provider, and she is deciding on the optimal strategy to grow the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
high-water mark for the valuation of an individual artist’s catalog: more than $500 million, according to the New York Times. Estimates by Music Business Worldwide suggest that investors, including many of the biggest players in private... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home delivery or pharmacy pick-up a requirement for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and livelihoods –... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
typically banks and insurance companies - in return for their upfront capital." Designed to attract private investment, the program is a proven success with more capital chasing it than can currently be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
in India: Aditya Birla Financial Services Group Aditya Birla Financial Services Group is a large, broad-based, Indian financial services institution offering products ranging from life insurance and mutual funds to View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
insurance and bank supervision) worked to stabilize the financial system; (2) that the financial catastrophe of 2007-2009 was not an accident, but rather a mistake, driven by a deregulatory mindset that took 50 years of post-New Deal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
PublicationsUncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business Authors:Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-070.pdf Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior Authors:Daniel Houser, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan Abstract Substantial research with adult... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
improving health care. But the new Medicare drug plan uses private insurers and health plans to drive down drug costs, and is showing early payoffs that exceed expectations, he says. "Think about the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
affordable housing is the low-income housing tax credit, part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986," she says. "In essence, it provides a tax benefit to private investors — typically banks and insurance... View Details