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- 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.)
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Evidence from the Indian Life Insurance Market Authors:Santosh Anagol, Shawn Cole, and Shayak Sarkar Abstract We conduct a series of field experiments to evaluate two competing views of the role of financial service intermediaries in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
compared to the long-easy philosophy. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton%20anik%20aknin%20dunn.pdf Deposit Insurance and Subsidized Recapitalizations Authors:Lucy White and Alan Morrison Publication:Journal of... 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
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
interest to torch the planet. Mark Carney, the Governor of the Bank of England, points out that insured losses from extreme weather events have risen five-fold in the last 30 years. He wonders if the financial markets face the risk of a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
finance, it seems, are never far from the minds of anyone in health care these days, even at fiscally sound MGH, the Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital that is recognized as an industry model. Indeed, with its conflicting mix of human... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
across a far-flung network of operations, and motivating everyone with a clear understanding of the new company’s mission. Add to those formidable tasks the steep learning curve Parker faced by moving from the service-based rigors of View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
to sitting on the sidelines afraid to invest, period. To make matters worse, staffing their start-up turned out to be painfully difficult. It didn’t help that the free office the partners secured from a friend for a year was located in a gritty New Delhi suburban View Details
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
http://papers.nber.org/papers/W15551 Labor Regulations and European Private Equity Authors:Ant Bozkaya and William R. Kerr Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
is even harder to measure than price. But there’s a great amount of price variation that doesn’t seem to be correlated to quality (at least to quality that we can measure). Which brings us to the question of why: Why can an industry like... View Details
- 24 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which was created by the passage of the 1906 Federal Food and Drugs Act, regulates companies and industries accounting for one-quarter of all consumer spending, roughly $1.5 trillion worth of... View Details
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
industry that has an opportunity to turn an existential crisis into an opportunity: the oil and gas industry. While the oil and gas industry is not on the decline (yet) like the coal industry, it faces... View Details