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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
percent of the population has credit cards. Go-Jek drivers offered their customers rain gear and surgical masks as protection against the streets’ noxious fumes. And all Go-Jek drivers received road safety training; gone were the white-knuckled rides through red... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
skills for our students. We’re fully convinced this is going to be fundamental mainstream investing in 20 years. Vikram Gandhi: One key driver is investor demand.If you look at the big pools of capital—family offices, pension plans, View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
costs, Dozie notes that “two years ago it was cheaper to put a store in London than on Victoria Island in Lagos.” That has led Café Neo to prioritize co-locations in offices: Counters inside businesses such as banks and insurance... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
become a nonprofit in the past six years. And it's really a wonderful tribute to the founders, who began it and then ran it for years, carrying the liability themselves. So they formed a corporation originally for insurance purposes, but... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
with Watson today, across 45 countries and 20 industries. For Kenny, the genius of Watson is not that it tries to be one service for every sector, but that it specializes, just as the experts in various fields specialize. So today there is Watson for View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
and submit their insurance information. “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is to get the data to help you find the best match for you,” he says, using the example that when patients are looking for a cardiologist,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Case Study: Alumni Advice for a Health Care Startup
population like an insurance product. Wellthy is trying to solve a painful problem for employees and employers, not spread the risk of that problem. I suggest charging a fee for service only to active users, and asking employers to... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
displays, and insurance form services also contribute to an enhanced customer experience. Greenberg notes, "We're simply bringing in modern merchandising techniques to meet the needs of an underserved population." Take Good Care also... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
insurance issues—quickly seemed insurmountable. “There are so many variables to make these devices tow us around,” says Rogers. “I mean, I almost cried uncle 10 times in the first month.” Chief among the hurdles? Funding. “The VC meetings... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
more older adults may be looking for more flexibility. And they may not want to work the 40, 80-hour timeframe, whatever that number was. And so, that is a new way of accommodating it. They may not need health insurance benefits, you... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
school fresh out of Yale. "I should have listened to my father," he admits with a wry smile. After four years of "just reading and writing" as an insurance company lawyer, Shafir, then newly wed to his wife, Lorna, entered HBS in 1982.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Anthony Demas (39th PMD) Anthony Demas (39th PMD) of New York City and Madison, Connecticut, was managing director at Aon Corporation, a Chicago-based insurance and risk-management firm with offices in the World Trade Center. Demas was a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have this job.” And she said, “Oh, just leave that job.” You could... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
the Democrats are probably unhappy that the Republicans passed the prescription drug law. And some don’t like the fact that it relied on private insurance providers. Do drug companies have sufficient patent protection for new products?... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Chris F. Liebenberg (100th AMP), chairman of Nedcor, a major South African banking group, and Michael Levett, chairman of Old Mutual, an insurance firm. Nedcor and Old Mutual are both diamond sponsors of the conference. Finally, an... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
structure, to do this yet. Pioneering this customized therapeutic is where we’re at now. But the vision is to have a system in place, a funding mechanism—either a venture funding mechanism or in the future, more ideally, a payer mechanism, an View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
At GE, I wish I’d sold our insurance business the day I got here. On the personal side, I wish I’d had the chance to work and live with my wife and daughter outside the United States. What is most often forgotten in the everyday busyness... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Pitchfork populism over the issue reached a crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers’ cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
do health care insurance or additive manufacturing. You know, how much more quickly they can move, how much more dedicated they are. I think those are things. And when I think back, like if I could have done a two-year sabbatical in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
Zero. "We helped with matters related to reopening, such as tracking down pro bono legal assistance on critical insurance and real-estate issues," she says. "We also brought in top experts from the restaurant industry to give advice."... View Details