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  • December 1970 (Revised August 1992)
  • Case

Marsh & McLennan (A)

By: Paul A. Vatter
Comparison of alternative hull insurance policies. Risk analysis. Simulation suggested as solution procedures. View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Insurance; Insurance Industry
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Vatter, Paul A. "Marsh & McLennan (A)." Harvard Business School Case 171-303, December 1970. (Revised August 1992.)

    Eugene F. Soltes

    Eugene Soltes is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where his work focuses on corporate integrity and risk management. His research utilizes data analytics to identify organizational cultures and compliance systems that can effectively... View Details

    • May 2014
    • Case

    Health Care Accountability: Examples in Cancer Treatment

    By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
    This case is designed to support a discussion of the importance of outcomes evidence in empowering the public to make better health care decisions, the desired level of transparency and accountability for health care providers, and the issues with current measuring and... View Details
    Keywords: Accountability; Health Care; Cancer; Cancer Treatment; Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; Cancer Treatment Centers Of America; Vantage Oncology; Radiology; Risk Adjustment; Treatment Outcomes; Health Care Outcomes; Prostate Cancer; Transparency; Health Care and Treatment; Risk Management; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; United States
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    Herzlinger, Regina E., and Natalie Kindred. "Health Care Accountability: Examples in Cancer Treatment." Harvard Business School Case 314-109, May 2014.
    • July–August 2013
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    How Experts Gain Influence

    By: Anette Mikes, Matthew Hall and Yuval Millo
    In theory, the risk management groups of two British banks—Saxon and Anglo—had the same influence in their organizations. But in practice, they did not: Saxon's was engaged in critical work throughout the bank, while Anglo's had little visibility outside its areas of... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Banking Industry
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    Mikes, Anette, Matthew Hall, and Yuval Millo. "How Experts Gain Influence." Harvard Business Review 91, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2013): 70–74.
    • October 2019
    • Case

    Regtech at HSBC

    By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
    Mark Cooke, Global Head of Operational Risk, needed to decide between a traditional regulatory control system and a new regtech system to manage non-financial risks. Non-financial risks failures such as money laundering and tax evasion had cost HSBC billions of... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Banks and Banking; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; Information Technology Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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    Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and James Weber. "Regtech at HSBC." Harvard Business School Case 120-046, October 2019.

      Managing Risks: A New Framework

      In this article, we present a new categorization of risk that allows executives to tell which risks can be managed through a rules-based model and which require alternative approaches. We examine the individual and organizational challenges inherent in generating open,... View Details
      • November 2010 (Revised October 2011)
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      Oriflame S.A. (A)

      By: David F. Hawkins, Karol Misztal and Daniela Beyersdorfer
      A direct-selling cosmetics company involved in emerging markets exhibits significant foreign exchange risk exposure and profitability swings in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Students must review the company's use of derivative instruments and other hedging... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Financial Strategy; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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      Hawkins, David F., Karol Misztal, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Oriflame S.A. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-050, November 2010. (Revised October 2011.)
      • March 1981 (Revised October 1984)
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      Corning Glass Works: Indonesia

      By: Michael Y. Yoshino
      Evaluates the market opportunities and risks by Corning and International Finance Corporation in Indonesia. View Details
      Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Financial Services Industry; Indonesia
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      Yoshino, Michael Y. "Corning Glass Works: Indonesia." Harvard Business School Case 381-119, March 1981. (Revised October 1984.)
      • November 2023 (Revised June 2025)
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      Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero

      By: Peter Tufano, Brian Trelstad and Matteo Gasparini
      The board of Aviva Plc, one of the world’s largest insurers, must review its climate risk exposures and evaluate next steps. Risk experts at the firm have conducted a robust set of analyses prepared for its regulator, the Bank of England, simulating how various climate... View Details
      Keywords: Analysis; Climate Change; Insurance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Risk Management; Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
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      Tufano, Peter, Brian Trelstad, and Matteo Gasparini. "Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero." Harvard Business School Case 324-008, November 2023. (Revised June 2025.)
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      Risk, Trust and Escalation Behavior of Owner Managers

      By: Cynthia A. Montgomery
      Professor Montgomery and Professor Deepak Malhotra (HBS), together with scientists from Harvard's Program on Evolutionary Dynamics, are studying risk-related decision making of owner managers in newly-founded and established companies.  This experimental... View Details
      • November 1994
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      Dow Corning and the Breast Implant Controversy (A)

      By: Willis M. Emmons III, Monica Brand and Greg Keller
      In early 1994, Dow Corning Corp. debates whether to participate in a proposed $4.2 billion product liability settlement. Specifically, the firm must decide whether to contribute $2 billion to end a class action suit filed by women suffering from connective tissue... View Details
      Keywords: Safety; Ethics; Health Disorders; Government Legislation; Crime and Corruption; Legal Liability; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Communication Strategy; Lawsuits and Litigation; Health Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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      Emmons, Willis M., III, Monica Brand, and Greg Keller. "Dow Corning and the Breast Implant Controversy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 795-047, November 1994.
      • December 1997 (Revised March 1998)
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      Mid Ocean Limited: Trading Catastrophe Index Options

      By: Kenneth A. Froot and Markus Mullarkey
      An insurance industry executive must evaluate the potential of a set of newly-offered catastrophe insurance derivatives. The background addresses the roles of traditional reinsurance and securitization efforts in providing risk transfer and risk financing in the "cat"... View Details
      Keywords: Commodity Market; Derivatives; Insurance; Capital Markets; Natural Disasters; Risk Management; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Insurance Industry; Bermuda
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      Froot, Kenneth A., and Markus Mullarkey. "Mid Ocean Limited: Trading Catastrophe Index Options." Harvard Business School Case 298-073, December 1997. (Revised March 1998.)
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      Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath

      By: Antonio Falato, Giovanni Favara and David Scharfstein
      We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from private to public ownership through a public listing or an acquisition. The increase... View Details
      Keywords: Ownership Type; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking; Transition; Price
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      Falato, Antonio, Giovanni Favara, and David Scharfstein. "Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath." Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming).
      • January 2008 (Revised August 2008)
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      The Time Warner Center: Mixed-Use Development

      By: A. Eugene Kohn, Arthur I Segel and David Lane
      Despite the failure of other attempts to bring mixed use development in New York City, Related Companies in 2004 opened Time Warner Center, a huge complex incorporating offices, shops, restaurants, music auditoriums, a hotel, and luxury apartments on Columbus Circle in... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Marketing; Buildings and Facilities; Construction; Development Economics; New York (city, NY)
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      Kohn, A. Eugene, Arthur I Segel, and David Lane. "The Time Warner Center: Mixed-Use Development." Harvard Business School Case 208-081, January 2008. (Revised August 2008.)
      • December 2006 (Revised December 2007)
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      The Vanderbilt University Endowment (2006)

      By: Andre F. Perold and William T. Spitz
      As with many modern-day large pools of capital, the Vanderbilt University endowment is significantly invested in alternative assets such as hedge funds, private equity, real estate, and natural resources. The endowment's investment committee chair is attempting to... View Details
      Keywords: Higher Education; Asset Management; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management
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      Perold, Andre F., and William T. Spitz. "The Vanderbilt University Endowment (2006)." Harvard Business School Case 207-062, December 2006. (Revised December 2007.)
      • September 2024 (Revised January 2025)
      • Teaching Note

      Leading Culture Change at SEB

      By: Amy Edmondson and Cat Huang
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-074. The Risk organization at SEB, a leading Nordic financial services group founded in 1856, undertook a culture change program focused on psychological safety, empathic listening, and strategic framing. The program enabled risk... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Sweden
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      Edmondson, Amy, and Cat Huang. "Leading Culture Change at SEB." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 625-023, September 2024. (Revised January 2025.)
      • 12 Nov 2015
      • News

      Airbnb Pledges to Work With Cities and Pay ‘Fair Share’ of Taxes

      • 21 May 2019
      • Working Paper Summaries

      rTSR: When Do Relative Performance Metrics Capture Relative Performance?

      Keywords: by Paul Ma, Jee-Eun Shin, and Charles C. Y. Wang; Financial Services
      • May 2004 (Revised August 2004)
      • Case

      Enron Odyssey (A), The: The Special Purpose of "SPEs"

      The board has asked Ron Tolbert, an employee in the Risk Assessment and Control Group, to analyze three SPE transactions executed by Enron executives: the Destec, Rhythms, and Fishtail/Bacchus transactions, which were prominently featured in the Examiner's Report in... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Instruments; Analysis; Accounting; Financial Strategy; Energy Industry
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      Chacko, George C., Bala Dharan, and Eli Strick. Enron Odyssey (A), The: The Special Purpose of "SPEs". Harvard Business School Case 204-009, May 2004. (Revised August 2004.)
      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Crashes and Collateralized Lending

      By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
      This paper develops a parsimonious static model for characterizing financing terms in collateralized lending markets. We characterize the systematic risk exposures for a variety of securities and develop a simple indifference-pricing framework to value the systematic... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Cost of Capital; Credit; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment; Framework; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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      Jurek, Jakub W., and Erik Stafford. "Crashes and Collateralized Lending." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-025, September 2010.
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