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  • July 1989
  • Article

On the Application of the Continuous-Time Theory of Finance to Financial Intermediation and Insurance

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Theory; Finance; Insurance
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  • June 1989 (Revised July 1993)
  • Case

CIGNA Worldwide

By: John A. Quelch
A CIGNA Worldwide (CWW) task group of European country directors and key functional managers is meeting in November 1988 to discuss how CWW should respond to the European Community's plan to remove existing internal barriers and restrictions to the free flow of goods... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Insurance; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Trade; Insurance Industry; Europe
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  • 1987
  • Chapter

Pension Plan Integration as Insurance against Social Security Risk

By: Robert C. Merton, Zvi Bodie and Alan J. Marcus
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Integration
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  • July 1987
  • Case

Prudential Insurance Co. of America--1985

By: Andre F. Perold
Keywords: Insurance Industry; United States
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  • April 1987
  • Background Note

Note on Accounting for Property and Casualty Insurance Companies

By: Andre F. Perold
Keywords: Accounting; Insurance; Insurance Industry
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  • 1985
  • Chapter

Implicit Labor Contracts Viewed as Options: A Discussion of 'Insurance Aspects of Pensions'

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Contracts; Labor and Management Relations; Insurance
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  • August 1984 (Revised March 1994)
  • Case

The Toro Company S'no Risk Program

By: David E. Bell
Toro introduced a promotion in which purchasers of their snowthrower would receive a refund if the next winter brought only modest snowfall. The principal focus of the class is to understand what the risk implications are for the customer and for the company. May be... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Customers; Insurance
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  • 1983
  • Article

Public Insurance Provision and Non-Market Failures

By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
Keywords: Insurance; Failure
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  • September 1982
  • Article

Risk Aversion and the Negotiation of Insurance Contracts

By: R. Kihlstrom and A. E. Roth
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Negotiation; Insurance
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  • 1980
  • Chapter

Measuring Consumer Satisfaction and Complaint Behavior: A Study of Financial Services and Insurance

By: J. Quelch and S. Ash
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  • May 1979 (Revised March 1984)
  • Case

Quality Life of New York

By: James I. Cash Jr.
Keywords: Insurance Industry; New York (state, US)
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  • 1977
  • Working Paper

Mitigating Demographic Risk Through Social Insurance

By: Jerry R. Green
A two-period lifetime overlapping generations growth model is used to evaluate the possibility that social insurance can effectively offset economic risks associated with uncertainty about the rate of population growth. Crude measures of the seriousness of this type of... View Details
Keywords: Social Insurance; Econometric Models; Public Sector; Government Administration; Policy; Human Needs; Social Issues; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • June 1977
  • Article

An Analytic Derivation of the Cost of Deposit Insurance and Loan Guarantees : An Application of Modern Option Pricing Theory

By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Financing and Loans; Price; Theory
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  • December 1974 (Revised May 1990)
  • Case

Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co.

By: W. Earl Sasser and Robert L. Banks
Keywords: Insurance Industry
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  • 1974
  • Report

An Actuarial Audit of the Social Security System

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Roman L. Weil
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Public Sector; Insurance
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  • winter 1971
  • Article

Patient Incentives and Hospital Insurance

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Lester Lave
Keywords: Health; Insurance; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry
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  • Article

New Interest in Incentive Financing

By: Samuel Hayes
The article presents the findings of a study on incentive financings as they apply to institutional investors, particularly life insurance company investors. The author made contact with investment officers in 29 insurance companies, and have collected a considerable... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Financing and Loans; Institutional Investing
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  • Research Summary

Behavioral Hazard and Public Policy

By: Joshua R. Schwartzstein

It is well recognized that people overuse low-value medical care due to moral hazard—because copays are lower than costs. Now Professor Schwartzstein has introduced the concept of “behavioral hazard” to explain the opposite: people underuse high-value care because... View Details

  • Teaching Interest

Business Opportunties in Climate Adaptation

By: John D. Macomber

This is a Short Intensive Program or SIP at Harvard Business School.  It’s an optional student offering prior to the formal start of the Spring semester the following week.  SIPs tend to cover new material on current topics, to be less formal than the HBS Case Study... View Details

Keywords: Resilience; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Fire Protection; Insurance Risk Exposure; Hedge Fund; Public Health; Public Health Measures; Climate Change; Adaptation; Infrastructure; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Africa; Latin America
  • Teaching Interest

Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks

By: John D. Macomber

This course is about building sustainable and resilient cities, future proofing real estate and infrastructure assets, and examining how businesses and investors find opportunities in climate adaptation.

The world faces substantial challenges in the face of... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Climate Finance; Migration; Climate Change; Adaptation; Urban Development; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry

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