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September 1996
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September 2020
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Medicaid Work Requirements in Arkansas: Two-Year Impacts on Coverage, Employment, and Affordability of Care

By: Benjamin D. Sommers, Lucy Chen, Robert J. Blendon, E. John Orav and Arnold M. Epstein

In June 2018 Arkansas became the first U.S. state to implement work requirements in Medicaid, requiring adults ages 30–49 to work twenty hours a week, participate in “community engagement” activities, or qualify for an exemption to maintain coverage. By April 2019,... View Details

Keywords: Medicaid; Health Care Policy; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Insurance; Health Industry; Arkansas

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11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

United States, expanding coverage and regulating insurers. However, it was not clear that expanding coverage would resolve a longstanding dilemma of rising costs for insurance and care. As the Department of Health and Human Services... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

using extremely precise readings over the past five decades and data from Antarctic ice cores going back hundreds of thousands of years. The data suggests that CO2 levels began rising after the Industrial Revolution and continue rising... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

the American Mathematical Society , no. 4. New York, N.Y.: American Mathematical Society, 1951. * Samuelson, Paul A. Foundations of Economic Analysis . Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1947. * Samuelson, Paul A. " Rational Theory of Warrant Pricing. " View Details

27 Jul 2010
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http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16185 Cases & Course MaterialsMicrofin Michael Chu and Enrique KramerHarvard Business School Case 309-126 The case presents the management dilemmas of a new institution in an undeveloped microfinance market in Latin America.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Feb 2013
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insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance mechanisms. Venture capital investors... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

Keywords: Value Investing; Investment; Valuation; Insurance; Behavioral Finance; Financial Services Industry

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05 Sep 2012
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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

01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books

for assessing differences between countries at the industry level; tracking the implications of particular border-crossing moves for a company’s ability to create value; and creating superior perfor-mance with strategies optimized for... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

established an insurance plan that insures many rural poor in two large, populous states in India for the equivalent of ten cents a day: "The numbers of people are so large, that for ten cents a day the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

Several months ago, Harvard's Forum on Health Care Innovation surveyed industry executives, policy makers, academics, and doctors about the state of health care in the United States. Their report card was not encouraging. Only 14 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

measures used by banks, insurance companies, and asset management pools to describe the risk differences among assets. It measures how much the asset value could decline within a specified future time period and within a certain... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

of the recommended measures and sent the bill to the Governor for his signature. The life insurance industry objected, however, claiming that some of the new rules would reduce consumer choice and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

apps for frontline employees to contain the pandemic. The experience will like reshape the entire health care industry for years to come. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Health Care Initiative at Harvard Business School how... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Mar 2016
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Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

answering President Kennedy’s call to give back. He then transitioned to the private sector. “I’ve always been interested in how leadership leads to service,” says George, who served in senior executive positions at Honeywell and Litton View Details

August 2020
Supplement

Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (B)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Alpana Thapar

Keywords: Accounting; Insurance Industry; Middle East

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July 2007 (Revised April 2008)
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Innovation at Progressive (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Frances X. Frei

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Insurance Industry

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August 1993
Case

USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region

By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell

USAA proposes to develop a new set of processes for its property and casualty division. The case focuses on processes used in automobile claims. View Details

Keywords: Business Processes; Insurance Industry; United States

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