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05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

2015, it actually made theoretical gains from avoiding payment of unemployment benefits and by collecting tax and social security payments from the workers who would otherwise have been unemployed. “To be... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

20 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How CEOs Sustain Higher-Ambition Goals

company is concerned with more than making money. Mark Bertolini, chairman, CEO, and president of health insurer Aetna, pointed to his own experience in social media, recalling a note he received from a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Winner of the Harvard Business School outstanding teacher award and research awards from U.S. and international health care and accounting organizations: 2016 “60 of the Most Powerful People in Healthcare in 2016,” Becker’s Hospital Review, January 3, 2017 ; 2014 ... View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Insurance; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Information Technology

11 May 2010
First Look

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 View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2005
What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

management. Meg Garland makes this case when she writes, "Of course it (business management) should be regarded as a profession, but certified and registered? Probably not. Such paper shuffling and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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... View Details

Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

laws to protect individuals if their information becomes known: Their jobs have to be protected; their health insurance has to be protected. That's the only way to solve this problem and make people feel... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

October 26, 2022
Article

Climate Risk Is Growing. Is Your Company Prepared?

By: John D. Macomber

Most people don’t have a strategy for how to handle the worsening perils of flooding, wildfires and extreme heat. They should adopt a four-step process for protecting their property, whether it be a home or a business. First, they should prioritize how important... View Details

Keywords: Climate Risk; Climate Change; Risk Management; Crisis Management; Insurance

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03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

November 2015 Quarterly Journal of Economics Behavioral Hazard in Health Insurance By: Baicker, Katherine, Sendhil Mullainathan, and Joshua Schwartzstein Abstract—A fundamental implication of standard moral... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

Eccles and Michael P. Krzus Publication:The Huffington Post, Blog, May 28, 2010 There is no abstract available at this time. Read the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-g-eccles/going-green-in-annual-rep_b_593957.html Working... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

margins until their newly spawned competitors eventually overtake them. In The Innovator's Solution, Christensen and Raynor present a manual for managers of long-established companies wishing to generate their own disruptive technologies... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

How to Revive Health-Care Innovation

networks arise, disrupting the old. Hence, disruptive business models such as value-adding process clinics, retail clinics, and facilitated networks must be married with disruptive innovations in insurance... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Jerome H. Grossman, M.D. M.D. & Jason Hwang; Health

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

identify and encourage introverts I wonder if Einstein's creative unconventional thinking was suppressed what the world would have lost." Most respondents offered advice for insuring the effective use of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

careers," O'Mahony says. "In addition, they're moving in and out of contract work. There are a number of open research issues here, such as questions of health insurance View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

Confront the powerful divides in America The Public Option health insurance proposed by the Biden campaign will weaken our economic status by adding to the national deficit and to Medicare’s unfunded... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

managers or executives at banks, insurance companies, asset management or private equity firms, or hedge funds. Groysberg and Healy will teach the program in England, in India, in China, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah, managing director of the BASIX's bank, considers a revised insurance policy for the coming season, weighing the costs and potential risks of expanding the product against... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne