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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Richard Edelman
Whether it is dolphin-rights advocates and tuna producers, or insurance companies and victims of the 9/11 tragedy, Richard W. Edelman is interested in bringing different worlds together. He is comfortable... View Details
- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
distributes grass-fed beef and other sustainably produced meats to customers across New York and New England. “And by that, I mean companies that have anything interesting to say about social and environmental impacts.” Cummings has a few... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
model is defaultable bank liabilities that provide liquidity services to households. The quality of the liquidity services provided by bank liabilities depends on their safety in case of default. Commercial bank debt is fully insured and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
Aetna, another covered by Blue Cross, and another self-insured. Payers could negotiate, but price changes would have to benefit all patients, not just their own. The cost of treating a medical condition has nothing to do with who the patient's employer or View Details
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Private companies: fast growing | Baker Library
Best Small Companies) Fortune Rankings (ex: 100 Fastest Growing Companies ) Inc. 5000 FormDs.com Nearly all startups and investment firms file Form Ds with the SEC when they raise money. Form D filings contain: amount of money raised,... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
of the recommended measures and sent the bill to the Governor for his signature. The life insurance industry objected, however, claiming that some of the new rules would reduce consumer choice and unnecessarily lower returns on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a system where they are rewarded... View Details
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1.19 Immersive Field Courses (IFC) | MBA
with companies or working on a research project identified by faculty. In both cases, site visits and guest speakers will be an additional element of the courses. Courses begin in the fall with several required on-campus sessions to set... View Details
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Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month | Baker Library
Company which is one of—if not the only—locally owned and underwritten insurance companies in Hawaii; it is still in operation today. His yearbook photo (featured above) comes... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care
We know the symptoms all too well. We wait months to see a doctor. Office visits end, it seems, just moments after they begin. Managed care firms hold sway over doctors' treatment plans, and health insurance premiums are heading for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
90 and 95 percent of all the residential mortgages this year have been insured by, guaranteed by, or securitized by the government.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas noting that the government has kept the residential housing market... View Details
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
past. Health plans think of themselves as insurance companies because that is what they started out doing. Providers are organized around the old functional structure of specialties, rather than integrated... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
insurer Eureko as of October 2008, PZU was a highly profitable company and Poland's biggest asset holder. Eureko aimed at majority ownership of PZU as the building block of its Eastern European expansion... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
health insurance company, social norming can cut both ways. In the project, the company set up an intervention to increase participation in using "walk stations" that allow employees to exercise on a... View Details
- 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
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
would trade on their ideas," says Cohen. "They put their money where their mouth is." One of them, Alice Newcombe (MBA 2013), used her background in private equity to forensically investigate a mortgage insurance firm that... View Details