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- August 14, 2008
- Article
How Rehospitalizations Are Hurting Medicare
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "How Rehospitalizations Are Hurting Medicare." Boston Globe (August 14, 2008).
- May 2000
- Article
Is the Abnormal Return Following Equity Issuances Anomalous?
By: A. Brav, C. Geczy and Paul Gompers
Brav, A., C. Geczy, and Paul Gompers. "Is the Abnormal Return Following Equity Issuances Anomalous?" Journal of Financial Economics 56, no. 2 (May 2000).
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
(http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2009/june/toobig.html) is the best way to head off future financial meltdowns and deal with institutions that are too big to fail. Specifically, he advocates: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
(May 1972): 399-418. Bodie, Zvi. "What the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Can Learn from the Federal Savings-and-Loan Insurance Corporation." Journal of Financial Services Research 10, no. 1 (January 1996): 83-100. Bodie, Zvi, and... View Details
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Either Heal Health Care?A public insurance option could use its scale to hold prices down, but only if the approach avoids the financing gimmicks that are undermining Medicare. Research Papers Cohort... View Details
- August 1989 (Revised May 1993)
- Case
Computer Company's Health Plan
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Computer Company's Health Plan." Harvard Business School Case 190-038, August 1989. (Revised May 1993.)
- May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Supplement
'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)
By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case that offers an assessment of the August 2019 Markopolos report on General Electric. View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Communication; Energy; Financial Condition; Insurance; Performance; Planning; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Value; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry
Heese, Jonas, and David Lane. "'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 121-033, May 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
proposed new regulations: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like insurance charges; and, when all else fails, a receivership process to restructure, sell, or liquidate a failing company. Bottom line, no firm should be too... View Details
- April 2011
- Supplement
Reinsurance Negotiation: Confidential Information for Brack Re (CW)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Henoch Senbetta
Excel model to complement a three-party negotiation exercise. View Details
- October 2018
- Supplement
African Bank Investments Limited (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; South Africa
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "African Bank Investments Limited (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 319-053, October 2018.
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
set of investors who previously had limited access to complex derivative products. These include insurance companies and public and private pension funds. They see the products as a way to earn higher yield. The growing purchase by such... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
income remained relatively stable, about 3 to 1. Over the last 20 years, however, the financial markets that financed the housing system in the United States changed remarkably. Local markets once dominated by tightly regulated savings... View Details
- September 2007
- Teaching Note
BASIX (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching note to (207-099) and (207-108). View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
mainstream. In spite of a host of complicating factors, from a basic lack of defined terms to the difficulty of measuring returns, demand is only going up. In response, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole and senior lecturer Vikram Gandhi, a... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 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
- October 2018
- Case
African Bank Investments Limited (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; South Africa
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "African Bank Investments Limited (A)." Harvard Business School Case 319-052, October 2018.
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
is between companies that serve traditional banking needs and those catering to clients with more complicated financial lives. A crucial delineation," he says, "may be between those for whom federal deposit insurance is important - that... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- August 2010 (Revised August 2010)
- Teaching Note
Malcolm Life Enhances Its Variable Annuities (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen and David J. Pearlman
Teaching Note for 311041. View Details
- April 2013
- Supplement
AIG and the American Taxpayers (B)
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: Financial Markets; Financial Policy; Property Rights; Financial Institutions; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Insurance Industry; United States
Ramanna, Karthik, and Matthew Shaffer. "AIG and the American Taxpayers (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 113-125, April 2013.
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
insurance house Momentum in Johannesburg, Magwegwe can often be heard on CNBC Africa and other local and national media, offering advice on financial matters, from simply saving more money to planning and sticking to a budget. Helping... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley