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- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
than prescriptions picked up at a pharmacy. Nevertheless, when home delivery is offered on an opt-in basis, the take-up rate is only 6%. We study a program that makes active choice of either home delivery or pharmacy pick-up a requirement for View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
regular inspections can help. Third party testing companies can insure that industry standards are met. Safety innovation needed But most companies do not innovate around safety or push for tougher safety... View Details
- 25 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
DC Alumni and BEI Present Talk on Inequality and Climate Change
marginalized communities. Spar and Choi touched on a range of issues, including the vital importance of trees for poor urban areas, the changing needs for insurance due to climate change, and the impact of climate change on the real... View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
HBS Working Knowledge contributor Carol Elsen conducted an e-mail interview with Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner about their new book, The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth. Elsen: Since the dot-com implosion, how has the venture capital 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
- September 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Teaching Note
Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (A) & (B)
By: John A. Quelch
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (G)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ramona Hilgenkamp. "Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (G)." Harvard Business School Supplement 195-222, April 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- June 1992
- Teaching Note
U.S. Health Care Systems, Prospectus and Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Teaching Note
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Surveying the VC Landscape
investors may find such disclosures unappealing, greater transparency in the private equity industry is inevitable. Nonetheless, much work remains to be done to insure that such disclosures are done in a way... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
particular, supportive incumbent industrial structures for input and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance companies, the largest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
conservatism. Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company Authors:Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels Periodical:Long Range Planning Journal 39, no. 2 (April... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
high-water mark for the valuation of an individual artist’s catalog: more than $500 million, according to the New York Times. Estimates by Music Business Worldwide suggest that investors, including many of the biggest players in private equity, pumped at least $5... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
worked tirelessly to operationalize her new mutualist ideals, which comprise collective strength, independence, and shared protections. In 2008, she plans to move the organization into the health insurance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 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
- Profile
Aaron Chadbourne
first day after high school graduation, I got my real estate license," Aaron says. The business was not only a way to earn summer income throughout college, but another way of learning. "Real estate is an industry where you can... View Details
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
KindredHarvard Business School Case 610-014 Through its uniquely proactive approach to medical malpractice risk management, the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) has decreased claims—and premiums—for the Harvard hospitals it insures. The RMF is the captive medico-legal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
obliterates all competitors, fall so precipitously? Other minicomputer firms were suddenly failing too. How could good managers seemingly turn bad so fast? That was the puzzle. Colleagues suggested exploring the disk-drive industry... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
now served and begin to scale back from those areas? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-035 Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices Zurich View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne