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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
small—almost like an insurance policy.” Angie’s List has deep HBS roots. Cofounder and venture capitalist Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992) struggled to find service providers in Indianapolis to fix up his historic home, finally turning to Unified... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
noted that the President was focusing on trying to get more people covered and shifting more of the costs to wealthy people while reducing costs to those with lesser incomes. But there was much debate about how to shift those costs, what is fair and not fair, and how... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Last Look - September 2007
what the case was about, I do remember that some enterprising classmate Marty McGowan, Section C called the company and got it to come to the stadium to launch a rocket. The company apparently had to get temporary one-day or one-hour View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
real market would permit Americans to buy health insurance for themselves, not from a shopper like an HMO. Americans are rejecting what they view as the unfair tactics that HMOs use to keep their costs down: discrimination against... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Marshall-ing the Facts with Marty While reading the remembrance of Professor Martin Marshall in the June Bulletin, I recalled a humorous but “typically Marty” happening that I witnessed while attending OPM in the late 1980s. The case before the class involved a large... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Whether it is dolphin-rights advocates and tuna producers, or insurance companies and victims of the 9/11 tragedy, Richard W. Edelman is interested in bringing different worlds together. He is comfortable with conflict, and his 25 years... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
90 and 95 percent of all the residential mortgages this year have been insured by, guaranteed by, or securitized by the government.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas noting that the government has kept the residential housing market... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Funny Business
started doing stand-up gigs at age 9, had an aha moment: She liked reading scripts. But she wanted to be the one writing them. “It was like I had been building up insurance for this very risky jump into a career that I wasn’t sure would... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
once it is in there, it is my belief that it will give back to the health care system. Patients, doctors, hospitals, government, insurance companies, and researchers will all make better decisions in health care with better information.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
topics in international finance, including securitization of insurance risks (particularly those linked to catastrophes), risk management for corporations and financial institutions, and asset allocation for investors. He is a founding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Mookerjee Picked as First Director of New HBS India Research Center
presence in research and education. Each center is led by an HBS graduate from the region. After earning his doctorate from HBS, Mookerjee worked in consulting with Booz Allen Hamilton and in investments with GE Capital. He then went on to develop corporate ventures in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the service. But that’s not going to happen because the largest investors in bonds — banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds — aren’t willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Flight Path
mall in Los Angeles. November 2016 DRL partners with Bud Light to find the next professional drone racer, recruited through DRL’s online simulator and a live tournament. February 2017 DRL signs a multiyear title sponsorship with German View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
In the Running?
After throwing his hat briefly into the ring in California’s gubernatorial recall race, John Garamendi (MBA ’70), California’s insurance commissioner, returned to his original mission. According to the New York Times (July 5, 2003), he... 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
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Andrew H. Tisch
its five subsidiaries — the Bulova Watch Company, insurer CNA Financial, Diamond Offshore Drilling, Loews Hotels, and the Lorillard Tobacco Company — and from other investments. Since 1997, when the founders passed the baton to the next... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Faculty Books
and pushing costs out of the reach of millions. Herzlinger outlines a plan for a consumer-driven system that puts insurance money in the hands of patients, removes the middleman in the doctor-patient relationship, and gives employers cost... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
Creating tools to help patients be better informed about costs
Kyle Schultz (MBA 2004) works with a software company that is developing ways to notify patients about the costs of their health care procedures and the ways insurance can be applied. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
Blameless Victim: Our Ten-Year Legal Battle against Zurich American Insurance and American International Group by Harold S. Rhodes (MBA 1980) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) This is the detailed story of the Rhodes family’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
appears to be the first financial instrument that enables social entrepreneurs to raise capital based on social outcomes,” says Cohen. “If we can prove that these approaches deliver social improvement, then we may well get to the day when a pension fund, an View Details