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- April 2011
- Supplement
Reinsurance Negotiation: Confidential Information for Auburn Re (CW)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Henoch Senbetta
Excel model to complement a three-party negotiation exercise. View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Oscar Winners
To your health: Nazemi, Schlosser, and Kushner roll out their consumer-friendly online insurance company. For aspiring entrepreneurs searching for a sexy start-up idea, it may not seem a very glamorous notion. But ask Josh Kushner (MBA... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
Reg Q was a capital control instituted during the New Deal to keep banks from raising the rates they paid savers and then chasing risky investments for a big payoff — all with federally insured funds. To get around Reg Q’s focus on U.S.... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
On August 15th, Aetna announced that it would reduce by 80 percent its participation in the Obama administration’s public exchanges for health insurance policies in 2017, citing significant financial losses. The move came just a few weeks... 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 insurance rates as non-farmers... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- March 2013 (Revised December 2016)
- Supplement
Assured Guaranty (CW)
By: Robin Greenwood, Adi Sunderam and Jared Dourdeville
Frank L. Gillespie
Having worked in a large, successful white insurance firm, Gillespie saw the need to bring better insurance services to Chicago’s black community and founded Liberty Life in 1919. Unlike other View Details
Keywords: Finance
- June 1975
- Case
Marsh & McLennan (B)
Presents the results of a computer simulation of aircraft hull insurance. Discussion will focus on the interpretation of the results described. Designed to be handed out in class. Rewrite of an earlier supplement by P. Vatter. View Details
Jackson, Barbara B. "Marsh & McLennan (B)." Harvard Business School Case 175-290, June 1975.
Peter B. Lewis
Lewis took the helm of his father’s small insurance business in the mid sixties when it was the 48th largest insurer in the nation. Over the course of the next two decades, Lewis built Progressive into one... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- October 2014 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
Gentera: Beyond Microcredit
By: Rajiv Lal and Lisa Mazzanti
Gentera, whose largest subsidiary is Compartamos Banco, has been a fantastically successful endeavor since it started in the 1990s. But in 2014, Gentera faces challenges in expanding beyond group-lending and micro-credit into microfinance and beyond in order to fulfill... View Details
Keywords: Financial Inclusion; Compartamos; Gentera; Micro-lending; Microfinance; Insurance; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Mexico City
Lal, Rajiv, and Lisa Mazzanti. "Gentera: Beyond Microcredit." Harvard Business School Case 515-017, October 2014. (Revised December 2014.)
Harold J. Hudson, Jr.
Hudson, as CEO of General Reinsurance, led the company in retaining its position as the largest distributor of wholesale insurance to the overall insurance industry. During his tenure, General Reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
the service. But that’s not going to happen because the largest investors in bonds — banks, insurance companies, and mutual funds — aren’t willing to pay because they think they do a much better job than the rating agencies. What I... View Details
William L. Moody, Jr.
Moody built a $400 million diversified enterprise. He founded the American National Insurance Company, which under his guidance grew into the largest enterprise of its kind in the southwest. By 1954, it had nearly $3 billion worth of... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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
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 services. Upon that success,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
Ernesta G. Procope
Procope founded her company to initially provide automobile and home owners insurance for the underserved African-American community in New York City. When insurance coverage was denied to certain minority... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
have facilitated nearly $4 trillion in financing for fossil fuels and from it generated more than $17 billion in fees, according to Bloomberg. But many consumers, even of the environmentally conscious variety, are not in the habit of... View Details
Alonzo F. Herndon
Herndon, a former slave, founded Atlanta Life Insurance Company. His company became the second largest African-American life insurance company in the nation. He was also the co-founder of the Niagara... View Details
Keywords: Finance
John Merrick
Merrick began his professional life as a barber, at one time owning five shops. However, by 1905, he devoted himself fully to his insurance company, and by 1919, the premium income was $1.2 million with View Details
Keywords: Finance
John M. Regan, Jr.
Regan helped build Marsh & McLennan into the largest U.S. insurance broker and the first US company to buy its way into the world’s only major insurance underwriting exchange, Lloyd’s of London. Regan... View Details
Keywords: Finance