insurance industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2001
Teaching Note

Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere TN

By: Mihir A. Desai, E. Scott Mayfield and Mark Veblen

Teaching Note for (9-202-044). View Details

Keywords: Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry

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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

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation

September 2014 (Revised January 2017)
Teaching Note

Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (A) & (B)

By: John A. Quelch

Keywords: Affordable Care Act (ACA); Marketing Communications; Market Segmentation; Marketing Management; Startup Management; Analysis; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Strategy; Health Industry; Health Industry; North and Central America

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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

Keywords: Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry

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June 1992
Teaching Note

U.S. Health Care Systems, Prospectus and Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Teaching Note

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry

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February 2010
Teaching Note

Koo Foundation Sun Yat-Sen Cancer Center: Breast Cancer Care in Taiwan (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron

Teaching Note for [710425]. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Strategy; Service Delivery; Quality; Performance; Insurance; Growth and Development; Health Industry; Taiwan

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28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

goals. For example, as Joanna pointed out, " we have a 'disease management' system, (not) a 'health care' system Insurers profit from healthy individuals, but they do not actually contribute to our health." Another problem is a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

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

01 Jan 2005
News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

savings, and insurance products. Together, WWB and the leaders in its network work with policymakers to create financial systems for the needy majority in their regions. Barry joined WWB as president in 1990 after fifteen years in top... View Details

02 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

bribery but even made it tax deductible until 1999, it was not welcomed in some nations where Siemens did business such as the United States—or in Germany after 2000—but old practices continued. Cooperative management-labor relations, often seen as key to the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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

28 Nov 2006
Other Presentation

Value-Based Competition in Health Care: Issues for Singapore

By: Michael E. Porter

This presentation draws Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg: Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Harvard Business School Press, May 2006. Earlier publications about health care include the Harvard Business Review... View Details

Keywords: Integration; Competition; Customer Value and Value Chain; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Singapore

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23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

are used to good service from other industries and expect higher performance than they see on the delivery sector. They obviously worry a lot about whether their insurance will cover the medical services... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

taken and proposed by the U.S. and European governments. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110048-PDF-ENG The U.S. Life Insurance Industry Robert C. Pozen and McCall MerchantHarvard... 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

03 May 2016
First Look

First Look, May 3, 2016

for "big teaming": intense collaboration between professions and industries with completely different mindsets. To explore the kind of leadership required to build the future, Edmondson and Reynolds tell the story of an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne