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- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
quantitative strategy, digging into numbers many ignore; others look deeply into industries or countries they are familiar with that many analysts don't understand. Successful investors learn how to put their unique knowledge to work... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
with the potential to help the most people. —Rene Robichaud (MBA 1984) I suggest that you target the applications that will most likely impact insurers. If insurers see the value in it, they will certainly patronize it, and that will give... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- October 2022
- Supplement
Beam Dental (B)
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
In May 2016, venture-backed Beam Dental was on the brink of financial collapse. Cofounder and CEO Alex Frommeyer weighed the unattractive terms of a bridge loan offered by Beam’s largest investor. Frommeyer needed to decide whether to accept the terms or concede defeat... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Insurance Industry; United States; Kentucky; Ohio
Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Beam Dental (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 723-356, October 2022.
- July 1996
- Teaching Note
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (A)-(H) TN
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Teaching Note for (9-195-216--223). View Details
Keywords: Insurance Industry
- August 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Case
CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)
By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci and Elise C Martin
Reengineering was introduced at CIGNA Corp. in 1988. CIGNA entered a second wave reengineering effort through a major project at CIGNA P&C, one of CIGNA's larger businesses. P&C was in financial crisis and as a result brought in a new executive team in 1991 to head the... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Growth and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Projects; Information Technology; Insurance Industry
Nolan, Richard L., Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci, and Elise C Martin. "CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)." Harvard Business School Case 196-059, August 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- April 2013 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
AIG and the American Taxpayers (A)
By: Karthik Ramanna and Matthew Shaffer
Explores the decision faced by AIG's board on whether to join shareholder and ex-CEO Maurice Greenberg's lawsuit against the U.S. government. The suit, argued by super-lawyer David Boies (of Bush v. Gore and California Gay Marriage fame), claims that in September 2008... View Details
Keywords: Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Markets; Financial Crisis; Property; Insurance Industry; United States
Ramanna, Karthik, and Matthew Shaffer. "AIG and the American Taxpayers (A)." Harvard Business School Case 113-124, April 2013. (Revised June 2016.)
- July 1993
- Case
Future of Distributed Systems at Aetna, The
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Chris L Marshall
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Chris L Marshall. "Future of Distributed Systems at Aetna, The." Harvard Business School Case 194-018, July 1993.
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
Tokyo AFM (TN)
By: Francois Brochet
Teaching Note for [109056]. View Details
- November 2007 (Revised March 2009)
- Supplement
OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Andrew Hill and Kaitlyn Simpson
Keywords: Insurance Industry
Lorsch, Jay W., Andrew Hill, and Kaitlyn Simpson. "OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-075, November 2007. (Revised March 2009.)
- May 1979 (Revised March 1984)
- Case
Quality Life of New York
Cash, James I., Jr. "Quality Life of New York." Harvard Business School Case 179-200, May 1979. (Revised March 1984.)
- June 2013 (Revised February 2015)
- Teaching Note
Assured Guaranty
By: Robin Greenwood, Adi Sunderam and Jared Dourdeville
To be used as an aid in teaching the Assured Guaranty case, #213100. View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Ever Need (over one million copies sold); Fire and Ice (a biography of Charles Revson and Revlon); Getting By on $100,000 a Year (and Other Sad Tales); and The Invisible Bankers, an irreverent look at the insurance industry. He has won... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Forecasting ’15
once it is in there, it is my belief that it will give back to the health care system. Patients, doctors, hospitals, government, insurance companies, and researchers will all make better decisions in health care with better information.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Better Care at Lower Cost
The U.S. health-care industry isn’t immune to the forces of disruptive innovation that already have transformed other businesses, from computer manufacturing to retailing, HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen told 250 participants at the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
transactions. Prior industry studies often suggest a hierarchical form of organization in which firms are ordered, from "upstream" to "downstream," according to the sequence of production processes. However, little is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
Insurance Corporation. Today, the FDIC is the most important ingredient brand in the world, way more important than Intel. Trust in the FDIC and the United States Government enables consumers to confidently deposit up to $250,000 in any... View Details
- 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
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
governments rely on honest reporting. Proof of honest intent is typically provided through signature at the end of the document, e.g., tax returns or insurance policy forms. Still, people sometimes cheat to advance their financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
company while still at HBS and had recently sold his investments, was intrigued by the opportunity. Travel nursing had gotten its start in the 1980s, and its biggest player had recently gone public, revealing a wealth of data about the sector. “To me, it looked like an... View Details