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    Carl H. Lindner, Jr.

    Lindner parlayed his small interest in a family dairy business into one of the largest and most successful financial conglomerates in the United States. Beginning with the purchase of one insurance company... View Details
    Keywords: Finance

      Morgan G. Bulkeley

      In 1879, Bulkeley was elected the third president in the history of Aetna Life Insurance, a position he held until his death. Under Bulkeley’s leadership, Aetna’s assets grew from $25 million in 1879 to over $200 million in 1922, and the number of employees rose from... View Details
      Keywords: Finance
      • 11 Dec 2017
      • News

      A Pioneer of Affordable Housing

      to build on what I had experienced earlier,” says Freeman, who previously worked in the US space program, was general counsel for a life insurance company, and bought and managed an office fixtures manufacturer. Pioneer Group, based in... View Details
      • 01 Dec 2017
      • News

      2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived

      significant investment in the area. At Kaiser Permanente, for instance, 25 percent of annual capital spending is invested in IT, and in the private sector, 102 telemedicine companies have received venture funding since 2011. In the first... View Details
      Keywords: Halle Tecco (MBA 2011), founder emeritus, Rock Health; angel investor; adjunct professor, Columbia Business School
      • 01 Jun 2011
      • News

      Noted & Quoted

      “These board fees for [health] insurance companies are off the reservation.” — HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan, arguing that nonprofit board service should be about giving “time, talent, and treasure,” not... View Details
      • 01 Mar 2009
      • News

      Model Patient

      the Health Connector, which acts not as an insurance company but as a purchasing agent for small employers or individuals.” A final piece of the puzzle, Pozen says, was redirecting the funds in an existing... View Details
      Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
      • 19 Jan 2022
      • In Practice

      7 Trends to Watch in 2022

      As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
      Keywords: by HBS News

        Henry S. Dennison

        In 1916, Dennison Manufacturing established the first employer-initiated unemployment insurance system in the United States. Dennison also initiated a program to end absentee stockholder control over company... View Details
        Keywords: Wood, Paper & Forestry

          Harold S. Geneen

          Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million... View Details
          Keywords: Communications
          • 27 Apr 2021
          • Research & Ideas

          New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

          Collis and Akiko Kanno “Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses. As the View Details

            Jules S. Bache

            Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits Manufacturing View Details
            Keywords: Finance

              Charles C. Spaulding

              Joining his uncle’s firm in 1898, Spaulding rose to director of North Carolina Mutual. Under Spaulding, the company grew to be the largest black-owned business of the time and had amassed assets of over $37 million by the time of... View Details
              Keywords: Finance

                John R. Hegeman

                Hegeman expanded Metropolitan Life from a struggling company into a nationwide concern. He increased the number of insurance policies from 10,000 in 1870 to nearly 20 million in 1918. During his presidency,... View Details
                Keywords: Finance
                • 01 Sep 2009
                • News

                Noted & Quoted

                Tom Coburn (R-OK), writing on health-care reform (Huffington Post, April 27, 2009). “True reform will require both moving toward universal insurance coverage and restructuring the care delivery system. These two components are profoundly... View Details
                Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management
                • 26 Mar 2013
                • First Look

                First Look: March 26

                bonds. Insurance companies have capital requirements tied to the credit ratings of their investments. Conditional on ratings, insurance portfolios are systematically biased... View Details
                Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
                • 15 Aug 2007
                • Op-Ed

                3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

                set of investors who previously had limited access to complex derivative products. These include insurance companies and public and private pension funds. They see the products as a way to earn higher yield.... View Details
                Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking
                • 01 Mar 2006
                • News

                Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)

                managing call centers for insurance companies but wanted to switch from telephonic to face-to-face service, so I decided to focus on restaurants. I spent the first year at HBS researching the industry and... View Details
                Keywords: Margie Kelley; desserteries; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
                • 15 May 2013
                • Research & Ideas

                From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

                ourselves). Happy Money provides valuable information not only for pleasure-seeking consumers, but also for companies looking to increase the happiness of both employees and customers. The following excerpt describes how the power of... View Details
                Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
                • 29 Aug 2024
                • News

                A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

                When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details
                • 19 Feb 2019
                • First Look

                New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

                than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home delivery or pharmacy pick-up a requirement for View Details
                Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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