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Jerry R. Green
Jerry R. Green
David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy
John Leverett Professor in the University
Harvard University
Jerry Green is the John Leverett Professor in the University and the David A. Wells... View Details
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Hawes Hall | About
purchased Life Re Corporation, which grew into a major player in the US reinsurance market. The company went public in 1992 and was sold to Swiss Re in 1998. At HBS, Hawes has served multiple terms on the Board of Dean’s Advisors and led... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
Lillo of Swiss Reinsurance Company. To get consumers to sign onto the technology, the industry must instill trust by focusing on programming the cars to behave with the “common sense” human drivers tend to apply when navigating complex or... View Details
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Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment
resilience and discussed emerging approaches like parametric insurance and community catastrophe coverage. Barney Schauble (AB ’95) , Senior Advisor at Nephila and Principal of Greenthread, brought a global capital markets perspective to the conversation. Having spent... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
reinsurance unit of General Re Corporation, Life Re Corporation of America. The firm continued to grow as a major player in the U.S. reinsurance business, helped considerably during the 1990s by several... View Details
- 17 Jun 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience
approaches like parametric insurance and community catastrophe coverage. Barney Schauble (AB ’95), Senior Advisor at Nephila and Principal of Greenthread, brought a global capital markets perspective to the conversation. Having spent decades in View Details
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 posted some of the best market... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
participation. He meets with rebellion from the class members. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/912406-PDF-ENG Reinsurance Negotiation: Confidential Information for Auburn Re Robert C.Pozen and Henoch... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
taking a hint from the reinsurance industry, which runs on risk assessment and which faces financial hits in the wake of any climate-related event. Frank Nutter, president of the Reinsurance Association of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
that historically, federal disaster policy has not produced effective risk monitoring sufficient to curtail the kind of risky behaviors (such as reckless building) that compound losses when natural disasters strike. With that in mind, he proposed a program of federal... View Details
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
2017 New York: Oxford University Press Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming By: Hauter, Niels Viggo, and Geoffrey Jones, eds. Abstract—This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
the general Buenos Aires population, in spite of the large differences. On the Pricing of Intermediated Risks: Theory and Application to Catastrophe Reinsurance Authors:K. A. Froot and P. O'Connell Periodical:Journal of Banking and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
University Press) This book provides a comprehensive history of the reinsurance industry from the nineteenth century to the present day. Largely unnoticed outside the expert community, recently reinsurance... View Details
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
811-093 Aid in understanding of financing entrepreneurship. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811093-PDF-ENG Note on the Reinsurance Industry Robert C. Pozen and Henoch SenbettaHarvard Business School Note 311-102... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
pay the government up front for bailing them out. The old system didn’t work too well, and this one wouldn’t either. Wouldn’t the pool of reinsurance money paid by these private institutions shield the government from any losses? Not... View Details
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
boards cannot do their jobs, and the system will remain as subject to calamitous events as it was before the crisis. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-033.pdf PublicationsLessons for the Current Financial Crisis from Catastrophe View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
property and casualty reinsurance company, announced it had agreed to sell itself to Alleghany Corporation, ending "the most frenzied takeover battle" of 2011, which involved competitors, Warren Buffett's National Indemnity, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
major improvements in economic performance nearly everywhere they were adopted or imposed. Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers Author:K. A. Froot Periodical:Journal of Risk and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
trade in and out of insurance products and is not subject to regulatory restrictions. Yet, Nephila only capitalizes 1% of the entire catastrophe reinsurance market. What is the best way to grow? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details