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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Case Study: A Good Fit
a lark, Gain Life partnered with an insurance company to see if its apps could help people who are out of work on shortor long-term disability or workers’ compensation. This market has only a handful of competitors and big bottom-line...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
the average expenses of the sick enrolled in state high-risk pools ranged from $8,000 to $24,000. Even the top 10 percent of taxpayers, with incomes over $110,000, could barely afford these sums. Sick people are currently insured because...
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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
lot of technical knowledge about how to manage our family and to excel as stewards of our business." Representing a company on the "younger" end of the spectrum was Michael L. Carricarte, the president of Amedex Insurance Group, a...
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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Collis and Akiko Kanno “Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses. As the company becomes majority...
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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
welfare services leads to an increase in the formation of new companies. (The paper cites a related example: author J. K. Rowling, who wrote the first Harry Potter novel while receiving welfare benefits in the United Kingdom.) "Social View Details
Lorimer D. Milton
Under Milton’s leadership, Citizens Trust grew to become one of the top five black-owned financial service institutions in the United States by 1940. It was the first black-owned bank to become a member of the Federal Reserve and Federal Deposit View Details
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Ivan J. Houston
Houston was instrumental in streamlining Golden State’s operations and enabling it to profitably expand. He moved the company into the group insurance field securing business from organizations such as Ford, General Motors, and AT&T....
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Finance
Alonzo F. Herndon
Herndon, a former slave, founded Atlanta Life Insurance Company. His company became the second largest African-American life insurance company in the nation. He was also the co-founder of the Niagara...
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Finance
Henry S. Dennison
In 1916, Dennison Manufacturing established the first employer-initiated unemployment insurance system in the United States. Dennison also initiated a program to end absentee stockholder control over company policy, called the “Management...
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Wood, Paper & Forestry
Carl H. Lindner, Jr.
Lindner parlayed his small interest in a family dairy business into one of the largest and most successful financial conglomerates in the United States. Beginning with the purchase of one insurance company in the late 1950’s, Lindner went...
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Morgan G. Bulkeley
In 1879, Bulkeley was elected the third president in the history of Aetna Life Insurance, a position he held until his death. Under Bulkeley’s leadership, Aetna’s assets grew from $25 million in 1879 to over $200 million in 1922, and the number of employees rose from...
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Finance
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
solutions, but which type of organization will take the lead on a patient-data integration system that enjoys widespread success: hospitals, insurance providers, medical equipment suppliers, consumer tech companies, or some other entity?...
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John Merrick
Merrick began his professional life as a barber, at one time owning five shops. However, by 1905, he devoted himself fully to his insurance company, and by 1919, the premium income was $1.2 million with View Details
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Finance
Charles C. Spaulding
philosophy, Spaulding devoted many efforts to the growth of the black middle class, organizing the National Negro Insurance Association and helping to revitalize the National Negro Business League.
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Finance
- 07 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat
A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day...
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- 18 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Why Leaders Need Great Books
"I sold funeral insurance to North Carolina black people. I myself am not black. Like everybody else who was alive fifty-nine years ago, I was so young then, you know? I still feel bad about what went on. My wife says: telling...
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by Martha Lagace
John R. Hegeman
Hegeman expanded Metropolitan Life from a struggling company into a nationwide concern. He increased the number of insurance policies from 10,000 in 1870 to nearly 20 million in 1918. During his presidency, the company’s income increased...
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Finance
- Fast Answer
Banking industry: overviews & statistics
Where do I find information on banks and banking? Banking Information and Regulation (Federal Reserve) provides information on U.S. proposed and actual banking regulations. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation features statistics and...
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- October 2022
- Supplement
Beam Dental (B)
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
In May 2016, venture-backed Beam Dental was on the brink of financial collapse. Cofounder and CEO Alex Frommeyer weighed the unattractive terms of a bridge loan offered by Beam’s largest investor. Frommeyer needed to decide whether to accept the terms or concede defeat...
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Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Financing and Loans;
Insurance Industry;
United States;
Kentucky;
Ohio
Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Beam Dental (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 723-356, October 2022.
- July 1996
- Teaching Note
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (A)-(H) TN
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Teaching Note for (9-195-216--223).
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Insurance Industry