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  • 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.
  • August 2017
  • Supplement

CareMore Health System (B)

By: Robert S. Huckman and Brian W. Powers
This supplement to “CareMore Health System (A)” discusses the company's early experience introducing its managed Medicaid model in the Des Moines, Iowa, market. It also provides an update on the Memphis program discussed in the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Health Insurance; Medicare; Medicaid; Managed Care; Extensivist; Social Determinants Of Health; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; United States
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Huckman, Robert S., and Brian W. Powers. "CareMore Health System (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 618-009, August 2017.
  • August 2017
  • Case

CareMore Health System

By: Robert S. Huckman and Brian W. Powers
CareMore Health System—a physician-founded care delivery system and health plan—had developed and refined an innovative care model for at-risk seniors enrolled in Medicare managed care (i.e., Medicare Advantage) plans. CareMore's President, Sachin Jain, and his... View Details
Keywords: Health Care Delivery; Health Insurance; Medicare; Medicaid; Managed Care; Extensivist; Social Determinants Of Health; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Industry; United States
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Huckman, Robert S., and Brian W. Powers. "CareMore Health System." Harvard Business School Case 618-008, August 2017.
  • September 2018 (Revised August 2019)
  • Case

The Progressive Corporation, 2018

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, The Progressive Corporation (Progressive), the USA’s third-largest auto insurance writer, reported earned premiums were up 20% in 2018 compared to the previous year, and net income was up 64%. Direct sales of personal auto policies rose 21%, while agent... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Decisions; Customer Acquisition; Customer Experience; Customer Lifetime Value; Policy Implementation; Competitors; Auto Insurance; Vehicle; Progressive; Allstate; State Farm; GEICO; Implementation; Insurance; Customer Value and Value Chain; Growth Management; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry
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Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "The Progressive Corporation, 2019." Harvard Business School Case 719-413, September 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
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Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance against Elite Betrayal

By: Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg
We present a simple model of populism as the rejection of “disloyal” leaders. We show that adding the assumption that people are worse off when they experience low income as a result of leader betrayal (than when it is the result of bad luck) to a simple voter choice... View Details
Keywords: Populism; Corruption; Betrayal; Incompetence; Voting; Attitudes
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Di Tella, Rafael, and Julio J. Rotemberg. "Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance against Elite Betrayal." Journal of Comparative Economics 46, no. 4 (December 2018): 988–1005.
  • 2016
  • Teaching Note

Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching note for case 314029. Following a successful military career as an Army Nurse, achieving rank as Major General, becoming the first female Acting Surgeon General of the Army, and the 22nd Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, Pollock developed a vested interest in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Education; Insurance Companies; Military; Leadership Skills; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Insurance; Business Startups; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Change Management; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note 316-036, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
  • 11 Jan 2017
  • Working Paper Summaries

Populism and the Return of the 'Paranoid Style': Some Evidence and a Simple Model of Demand for Incompetence as Insurance Against Elite Betrayal

Keywords: by Rafael Di Tella and Julio J. Rotemberg
  • December 2024
  • Case

Core Innovation Capital: Investing in Fintech for Good

By: Ray Kluender, Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Roth and Nicole Tempest Keller
In 2017, Arjan Schütte, founder of Core Innovation Capital, faced a decision on whether to invest in Hugo Insurance, an auto insurance startup. Core, an early-stage social impact VC firm, focused on “fintech for good,” by investing in financial services for low- to... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Insurance; Measurement and Metrics; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product Positioning; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; United States
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Kluender, Ray, Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Roth, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Core Innovation Capital: Investing in Fintech for Good." Harvard Business School Case 825-064, December 2024.
  • 2014
  • Discussion Paper

The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?

By: Dina D. Pomeranz
The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Women's Empowerment; Entrepreneurs; Saving; Savings; Credit; Credit Supply; Insurance; Development Economics; Development Finance; Behavioral Economics; Gender; Microfinance; Social Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Latin America; Kenya; Chile; India; Asia; Africa
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Pomeranz, Dina D. "The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?" EY Thought Leadership Series, February 2014.
  • December 2001
  • Case

Cybersettle

By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
Cybersettle's management faced a dilemma: How could they turn their company, which provided confidential online settlement services for insurance claims, into a profitable enterprise? Having started during the heady days of Internet "dot-com fever," the company now had... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Process; Conflict and Resolution; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Internet; Insurance Industry
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Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "Cybersettle." Harvard Business School Case 902-158, December 2001.
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The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions

By: Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew Notowidigdo
We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Insurance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment
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Dobkin, Carlos, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender, and Matthew Notowidigdo. "The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions." American Economic Review 108, no. 2 (February 2018): 308–352.
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Behavioral Hazard and Public Policy

By: Joshua R. Schwartzstein

It is well recognized that people overuse low-value medical care due to moral hazard—because copays are lower than costs. Now Professor Schwartzstein has introduced the concept of “behavioral hazard” to explain the opposite: people underuse high-value care because... View Details

  • 29 Nov 2016
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Fiscal Risk and the Portfolio of Government Programs

Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam
  • 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45271 August 2013 Journal of Health Economics Consumers' Misunderstanding of Health Insurance By: Loewenstein, George, Joelle Y. Friedman, Barbara McGill, Sarah Ahmad, Suzanne Linck, Stacey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Shawn A. Cole

    Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, impact investing, and Social Enterprise. He serves as faculty chair of the Social Enterprise... View Details

    Keywords: banking; financial services; microfinance
    • September 1998 (Revised June 1999)
    • Case

    Discovery Health (A)

    A South African health insurance company undertakes a redesign of its prescription drug coverage policy in light of its experiences with Prozac. View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Service Delivery; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; South Africa
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    Chun, Samuel S., and Shaun Matisson. "Discovery Health (A)." Harvard Business School Case 599-046, September 1998. (Revised June 1999.)
    • September 1998 (Revised July 1999)
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    Discovery Health (B)

    By: Samuel S. Chun and Shaun Matisonn
    A South African health insurance company grapples with designing a financially viable coverage solution for a new prescription drug treatment for male impotence. View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Service Delivery; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; South Africa
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    Chun, Samuel S., and Shaun Matisonn. "Discovery Health (B)." Harvard Business School Case 599-047, September 1998. (Revised July 1999.)

      Ray Kluender

      Ray Kluender is an associate professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Berol Corporation Fellow at Harvard Business School, a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), an invited researcher at the Abdul Latif Jameel... View Details

      • March 2018
      • Supplement

      China Vanke: Battle for Control (D)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau and Anthony K. Woo
      In the battle for control over China Vanke, the Chinese securities regulator steps in to censure Vanke and Baoneng for acting against the interests of the market and minority shareholders. The Chinese insurance regulator also finds Baoneng to be in violation of... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Real Estate Industry; China
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      Paine, Lynn S., Charles C.Y. Wang, Dawn H. Lau, and Anthony K. Woo. "China Vanke: Battle for Control (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-120, March 2018.
      • June 2013
      • Case

      Multiasistencia: Redefining the Relationship with Its Service Professionals

      By: F. Asis Martinez-Jerez, Maria Garcia Perez and Katherine M. Miller
      Multiasistencia, a major Spanish BPO of insurance repairs, is changing the relational contract with its service professionals from a referral model to a guaranteed workload one. View Details
      Keywords: Outsourcing; Incentives; Relational Contracts; Business Model; Motivation and Incentives; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Contracts; Insurance Industry; Spain
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      Martinez-Jerez, F. Asis, Maria Garcia Perez, and Katherine M. Miller. "Multiasistencia: Redefining the Relationship with Its Service Professionals." Harvard Business School Case 113-143, June 2013.
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