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Maggie L. Walker
Walker first organized an insurance company within the Order of St. Luke to help curb the problems suffered by many families when their major income-earners passed away. Capitalizing on the success of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff at HBS
cheerleaders, family members, coaches, business and civic leaders, school officials, and the mayor of Boston. Harvard University also chipped in, helping with the purchase of commemorative rings (complementing special jackets donated by... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward
Children’s Health Insurance Program [SCHIP] that was rolled out in 1997. Its goal was to insure children who were not covered by private insurance, but whose family income... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
American child at the time of birth. “At historical rates of equity returns of 8 percent annually, a $6,750 at-birth retirement account—which would cost the government $26 billion a year based on the average number of children born in the... View Details
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
health insurance for the family of an employee, for example, could instead offer the employee $17,000 in wages. Any money the employee used to purchase health insurance would... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Resilience TrainingDepressed employees are up to five times more likely to experience work-related problems than employees with chronic physical illnesses. So why aren't employers helping them? What Hospitals Must Learn to CompeteWhy is it so difficult for View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China
Chinese officials, members of his own administration, and the owner and president of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990), for the successful collaboration across public and private sectors. “It is an honor for our View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Just Super
Moments after the New England Patriots upset the heavily favored St. Louis Rams 20-17 in Super Bowl XXXVI, Patriots owner Robert Kraft (MBA '65) thanked the team's fans "for helping us bring this championship home" and observed that "our team symbolizes what's going on... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
encourages others to "be passionate," and to "collect good people around you." The words gain credence through Kraft because he is a living example of his playbook. The Kraft Group is a family business run by Kraft and sons Jonathan (MBA... View Details
George J. Mecherle
Leaving the family farm in 1918 to tend to his ailing spouse, Mecherle joined an automobile insurance company and quickly discovered that farmers were charged the same auto View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
database.” Diamond’s own family tree now has 14,000 entries, but JRI-Poland’s work stretches beyond individual family historians like himself: it has provided research for the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Donor Spotlight
combining an outright gift through a family foundation with a planned gift, which, in this case, makes HBS an insurance policy beneficiary. Such creative thinking about philanthropy means more support for... View Details
John F. Dryden
1875, less than 2% of Americans had life insurance, which was considered a luxury item. By 1899, that number had grown to 17%. Dryden also pioneered “industrial” life insurance by making small industrial... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits While reading your letters, I always imagine that you are sitting opposite me, and we are conversing together, as we used to do in old times. — John Heard to Elizabeth Heard, 1842 56 Influence of the China Trade and the Heard Legacy The... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
1831, Russell & Co. rose to become the largest American commission house in China until the firm’s demise in 1891. The collection includes order books, invoices, freight books, insurance documents, and... View Details
- 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 View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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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... View Details
Arthur G. Gaston
Gaston first established Booker T. Washington Burial Insurance Company to offer health and life insurance to black families to help them secure eloquent and respectable funeral... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
focuses almost entirely on disease care to keep people alive, but does very little to enable Americans to live healthy lives. The longer people live in their disease-prone years, the more they cost Medicare. AHCA doesn't really address... View Details
William Nickerson, Jr.
Nickerson founded and led the first African American life insurance business established in the state of California. Under his leadership, Golden State expanded to other states and grew to become one of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance