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  • March 2024 (Revised January 2025)
  • Case

Hippo: Weathering the Storm of the Home Insurance Crisis

By: Lauren Cohen, Grace Headinger and Sophia Pan
Rick McCathron, CEO of Hippo, considered how the firm’s underwriting model could account for the effects of climate change. Along with providing smart home packages, targeting risk-friendly customers, and using data-driven pricing, the Insurtech used technologically... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Underwriters; Big Data; Insurance Companies; Business Model Design; Weather Insurance; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Technological Innovation; Natural Environment; Natural Disasters; Weather; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Business Earnings; Insurance; Social Issues; Insurance Industry; United States; California
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  • September 2002 (Revised March 2003)
  • Technical Note

Technical Note on Equity-Linked Consideration, Part 3: Cash-and-Stock Deals

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The consideration paid by an acquiring company to a target can be a combination of cash and stock. During the 1980s and 1990s, for example, approximately 12% to 13% of all deals between public companies involved both cash and stock. This case series describes the basic... View Details
Keywords: Price; Acquisition; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • January 2008 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

Retail Sales of Health Insurance: Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Grady Clouse
The BCBS of Florida is contemplating whether to enter the consumer-driven health care market and if so, whether to target such groups—and individuals—and in which of its geographic markets, and how. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Insurance; Insurance Industry; Florida
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  • 27 Jun 2018
  • Video

Partner With a Harvard Business School Club

  • 25 Jul 2018
  • Video

Partner With a Harvard Business School Student Club

  • Video

Mostafa Terrab

Mostafa Terrab, Chairman and CEO of Morocco-based OCP Group, describes how the company has made targeted donations to smallholder famers in Africa, particularly in response to the decreased availability of fertilizer resulting from the war in Ukraine. View Details
  • 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Mar 2018
  • HBS Online

HBX Leading with Finance

Leading with Finance helps you build an intuitive understanding of finance to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow your career. Target audience: HBS alumni and colleagues; recommend to someone from your professional of personal network. Program Dates:... View Details
  • 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 17 Jan 2018
  • HBS Online

HBX Leading with Finance

Leading with Finance helps you build an intuitive understanding of finance to better communicate with key stakeholders and grow your career. Target audience: HBS alumni and colleagues; recommend to someone from your professional of personal network. Program Dates:... View Details
  • August 2009
  • Case

Global Wine War 2009: New World versus Old

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
The case contrasts the tradition-bound Old World wine industry with the market-oriented New World producers, the battle for the US market, the most desirable export target in 2009 due to its large, fast-growing, high-priced market segments. The case allows analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Global Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Consumer Behavior; Market Entry and Exit; Competition; Food and Beverage Industry
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    Eliminating unintended bias in personalized policies using Bias Eliminating Adapted Trees (BEAT) - PNAS

    An inherent risk of algorithmic personalization is disproportionate targeting of individuals from certain groups (or demographic characteristics such as gender or race), even when the decision maker does not intend to discriminate based on those... View Details

    • 06 Jul – 31 Aug 2017
    • HBS Online

    HBX CORe

    CORe (Credential of Readiness) is HBX's primer on the fundamentals of business thinking - a three-course online program covering Business Analytics, Economics for Managers, and Financial Accounting. Target audience: Individuals without a post-graduate degree in... View Details
    • October 1994
    • Case

    Isuzu Motors, Ltd.: Cost Creation Program

    Describes the various value engineering techniques used by Isuzu. Shows how Isuzu reduces the cost of its products while increasing their functionality within the constraints of a target cost. View Details
    Keywords: Cost Accounting; Cost Management
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    • 19 Oct 2015
    • News

    Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

    • March 2009
    • Article

    The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock Options Expensing

    By: F. Ferri and Tatiana Sandino
    We examine the economic consequences of more than 150 shareholder proposals to expense employee stock options (ESO) submitted during the proxy seasons of 2003 and 2004, the first case in which the SEC allowed a shareholder vote on an accounting matter. Our results... View Details
    Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Shareholder Votes; Stock Option Expensing; Executive Compensation; Financial Reporting; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Corporate Governance; Business and Shareholder Relations; Investment Activism
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      Sampling Bias in Entrepreneurial Experiments

      Using data from a prominent online platform for launching new digital products, we document that ‘sampling bias’—defined as the difference between a startup’s target customer base and the actual sample on which early ‘beta tests’ are conducted—has a systematic and... View Details

        Olivia S. Kim

        Olivia Kim is an assistant professor of business administration in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Entrepreneurial Management course in the MBA required curriculum.

        Professor Kim's research examines how firms... View Details

        • 04 Oct 2016
        • Blog Post

        The Peek Weekend Stem Cohort Experience

        That’s for consultants and bankers” I think HBS intentionally targets Peek to STEM majors who never saw themselves going to business school, and that’s the beauty of it. You don’t realize what you could do until you push yourself to try... View Details
        • May 1991 (Revised May 2001)
        • Case

        Pinkerton (A)

        A California based security guard firm considers the acquisition of another security guard company. The value of the target firm and the financing of the acquisition are the key issues. View Details
        Keywords: Valuation; Financing and Loans; Acquisition; Service Industry; California
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        • 15 Feb 2007
        • Research & Ideas

        Helping Low-Income Families Save More

        Podcast with: Peter TufanoInterviewer: James AisnerRunning Time: 18 min., 55 sec. View Details
        Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Banking; Financial Services
        • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 02 May 2018
        • HBS Online

        HBX Negotiation Mastery: Unlocking Value in the Real World

        Negotiation Mastery, Unlocking Value in the Real World, prepares you to close deals, maximize value creation, and resolve differences before they escalate. Target audience: HBS alumni and experienced colleagues; recommend to someone from your professional or personal... View Details