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  • 29 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

statistics showcasing the combined cost of white collar crime. Accounting scandals: $40 billion per year. Insurance fraud: $80 billion. "Wardrobing" (purchasing a new outfit, wearing it for a night on the town, and then... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 17 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

New Treasury Rules Help Long-Retirement Planning

with medical emergencies or to make bequests at their death. The recent Treasury rules make it much easier for workers to use part of the assets within their 401k or IRA plans to purchase a deferred life annuity at a relatively low cost. For example, according to a New... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Pozen; Financial Services
  • April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
  • Case

Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (A)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Mounting financial losses and increasing public scrutiny present many challenges to the board of directors of a large nonprofit health insurer. This case series presents chronologically the increasing problems of the company. View Details
Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Financial Condition; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Insurance Industry
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  • 15 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907412 HDFC (A) Harvard Business School Case 301-093 The top management team at India's leading home finance company must decide how to deal with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

public within five to seven years of its initial financing, will be able to pursue research that will not have a payoff for fifteen, twenty, or even more years in the future. (But it's not impossible—after all, venture capital has played a key role in the View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • 04 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

regulated the way insurers are regulated. Those words, insurance regulation, that's like striking a knife into the heart of an entrepreneur. It means you need a huge finance... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health
  • February 2024
  • Article

Investing in Long-Term Health

By: Katherine Baicker and Amitabh Chandra
Keywords: Insurance; Outcome or Result; Health Care and Treatment
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Baicker, Katherine, and Amitabh Chandra. "Investing in Long-Term Health." e240193. JAMA Health Forum 5, no. 2 (February 2024).
  • June 2005
  • Article

Governance Linked D&O Coverage: Leveraging the Audit Committee to Manage Governance Risk

By: S. Datar, M. G. Alles and J. H. Friedland
Keywords: Governance; Insurance; Accounting Audits; Management; Risk and Uncertainty
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Datar, S., M. G. Alles, and J. H. Friedland. "Governance Linked D&O Coverage: Leveraging the Audit Committee to Manage Governance Risk." International Journal of Disclosure and Governance 2, no. 2 (June 2005): 114–129.
  • 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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Kaplan, Robert S., and Roman L. Weil. "An Actuarial Audit of the Social Security System." Report, U.S. Dept. of the Treasury, September 1974.
  • Summer 2019
  • Article

The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry

By: Leemore S. Dafny, Katherine Ho and Robin S. Lee
We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are bundled by a common intermediary. Focusing on hospital mergers across distinct geographic markets, we show that such combinations... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Markets; Geographic Scope; Price; Outcome or Result; Insurance; Health Industry
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Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee. "The Price Effects of Cross-Market Mergers: Theory and Evidence from the Hospital Industry." RAND Journal of Economics 50, no. 2 (Summer 2019): 286–325.
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 24, 2018
  • Article

End the Corporate Health Care Tax

By: Mark R. Kramer and John Pontillo
Imagine if a single piece of legislation could effectively eliminate all U.S. corporate taxes, subsidize hundreds of millions of dollars in new corporate investment, increase the take-home pay of most U.S. employees, ease state and local budgets, and reduce the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Taxation; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States
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Kramer, Mark R., and John Pontillo. "End the Corporate Health Care Tax." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (October 24, 2018).
  • January 2, 2020
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Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
The United States has serious health care problems: More than 27 million uninsured people, costs that are growing faster than income, and a staggering $37 trillion of unfunded liabilities in the Medicare program. Perhaps most alarming: The US ranks lowest among... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare; Public Option; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management; Problems and Challenges; United States
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Herzlinger, Regina E., and James Wallace. "Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?" Harvard Business School Working Knowledge (January 2, 2020).
  • 08 Sep 2015
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September 8, 2015

that exists at the top of organizational hierarchies. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49601 forthcoming Management Science Financing Risk and Innovation By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

think we can stop health-care reform if and when we come to agreement about an optimal insurance model," says Bohmer. "For me, insurance reform is a necessary but not sufficient component of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
  • 21 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

shipping industry, constructing patterns of return for investors. “We were shocked at how predictable the returns are in this industry.” The research results—that heavy investment in a boom depresses future earnings—were unexpected, says Greenwood, the George Gund... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation
  • 09 Sep 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

man-made," says Associate Professor Ramana Nanda, who studies entrepreneurial financing issues in the clean energy sector. "Depending on the person I speak to, I try to then make the following two arguments: "First, I point to data that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 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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Merton, Robert C. "Implicit Labor Contracts Viewed as Options: A Discussion of 'Insurance Aspects of Pensions'." In Pensions, Labor and Individual Choice, edited by David A. Wise. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985.
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

more stable career path. The firms themselves also grew stronger, and the French government eventually saved more in unemployment benefits than the program cost, according to the study, Employment Effects of Alleviating Financing... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Technological Eclecticism Could Help Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Amar Bhidé “Keynes thought it would be ‘splendid’ if economists became more like dentists. Disciplinary economics has instead become more like physics in focusing... View Details
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