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- February 2010
- Teaching Note
Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (TN) (A) (B) & (C)
By: Ryan D. Taliaferro and Clayton S. Rose
Teaching Note for [210016], [210025], and [210028]. View Details
- 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Teaching note for case 314029. Following a successful military career as an Army Nurse, achieving rank as Major General, becoming the first female Acting Surgeon General of the Army, and the 22nd Chief of the Army Nurse Corps, Pollock developed a vested interest in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Education; Insurance Companies; Military; Leadership Skills; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Insurance; Business Startups; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Change Management; Health Industry; Information Technology Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Tessa Natanay Hamilton, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired." Harvard Business Publishing Teaching Note 316-036, 2016. (Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative.)
- January 2024 (Revised December 2024)
- Case
It's Not Mutual: The Conversion of Eastern Bank to Stock Ownership
By: David S. Scharfstein and Robert Ialenti
Scharfstein, David S., and Robert Ialenti. "It's Not Mutual: The Conversion of Eastern Bank to Stock Ownership." Harvard Business School Case 224-064, January 2024. (Revised December 2024.)
- Summer 2023
- Article
Do Policies to Increase Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Work?
By: Eric Barrette, Leemore S. Dafny and Karen Shen
Even among commercially insured individuals, opioid use disorder is undertreated in the United States: nearly half receive no treatment within six months of a new diagnosis. Using a difference-in-differences specification exploiting the extension of insurance parity... View Details
Keywords: Opioid Treatment; Medication-assisted Treatment; Substance Use Disorder; Private Insurance; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment
Barrette, Eric, Leemore S. Dafny, and Karen Shen. "Do Policies to Increase Access to Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder Work?" American Journal of Health Economics 9, no. 3 (Summer 2023): 297–330.
- October 2002
- Book Review
Book Review of Beatrix Hoffman's The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America
By: David A. Moss
Moss, David A. "Book Review of Beatrix Hoffman's The Wages of Sickness: The Politics of Health Insurance in Progressive America." Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 27, no. 5 (October 2002): 869–873.
- 1992
- Chapter
The Role of Market Value Accounting in the Regulation of Insured Depository Institutions
By: S. Datar, W. Beaver and M. Wolfson
- November 1989 (Revised January 1990)
- Case
Paul Revere Insurance Co. (C): Competing For the Baldrige Award--The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Exercise
The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award requires firms to submit applications that conform to a rigorous quality-assessment system. This case consists of several parts of a service company's 1988 Baldrige application together with material from the Malcolm Baldrige... View Details
Hart, Christopher. "Paul Revere Insurance Co. (C): Competing For the Baldrige Award--The Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Exercise." Harvard Business School Case 690-002, November 1989. (Revised January 1990.)
- March 2015 (Revised November 2017)
- Case
Bonitas
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Natalie Kindred
Bonitas, a South African medical scheme (i.e., health insurer), must navigate highly restrictive regulations that make it difficult for Bonitas to innovate, grow, and compete with market leader Discovery as well as providers of alternative insurance products. Bonitas... View Details
Keywords: Health Insurance; Health Care; South Africa; Medical Scheme; Public Policy; Bonitas; Bonitas Medical Fund; National Health Insurance; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Policy; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; South Africa; Johannesburg; Africa
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Natalie Kindred. "Bonitas." Harvard Business School Case 315-020, March 2015. (Revised November 2017.)
- 2011
- Working Paper
Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003
By: Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio
There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work examining the effects of having the government as a minority shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Ownership Stake; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Brazil
Lazzarini, Sergio G., and Aldo Musacchio. "Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-073, January 2011. (**Winner of the Prize for the Best Paper Presented at the Strategic Management Society Special Conference, Rio de Janeiro, 2011.)
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Mark L. Egan
When considering how households make investment decisions, Professor Egan became intrigued by the question, “What makes a bank ‘special’ when compared to other lending institutions?” Focusing on empirical industrial organization with applications to finance and... View Details
- 1994
- Chapter
Financial System Reform in Poland: Lessons from Japan's Main Bank System
By: T. Hoshi, A. Kashyap and G. W. Loveman
Hoshi, T., A. Kashyap, and G. W. Loveman. "Financial System Reform in Poland: Lessons from Japan's Main Bank System." In The Japanese Main Bank System : Its Relevance for Developing and Transforming Economies, edited by M. Aoki and H. Patrick, 592–634. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1994.
- August 1999
- Article
Measuring the Efficiency of Service Delivery Processes: With Application to Retail Banking
By: F. Frei and P. Harker
Frei, F., and P. Harker. "Measuring the Efficiency of Service Delivery Processes: With Application to Retail Banking." Journal of Service Research 1, no. 4 (August 1999): 300–312.
- 30 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
- February 2018
- Case
Health Savings Accounts: Enabling Consumer Participation
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and James Wallace
Health savings accounts (HSAs), a creation of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, had become an integral part of the drive toward consumer-driven health care. Coupled with high-deductible health plans, HSAs allowed consumers to directly control a significant part of... View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank (TN)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
Teaching Note for 711049. View Details
- Article
Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Exchanges: What Do They Look Like and How Do They Affect Pricing? A Case Study of Texas
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Igal Hendel and Nathan Wilson
Dafny, Leemore S., Igal Hendel, and Nathan Wilson. "Narrow Networks on the Health Insurance Exchanges: What Do They Look Like and How Do They Affect Pricing? A Case Study of Texas." American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 105, no. 5 (May 2015): 110–114.
- spring 1973
- Article
Management of Commercial Bank Government Security Portfolios: An Optimization Approach Under Uncertainty
By: D. B. Crane and Stephen P. Bradley
Crane, D. B., and Stephen P. Bradley. "Management of Commercial Bank Government Security Portfolios: An Optimization Approach Under Uncertainty." Journal of Bank Research 4, no. 1 (spring 1973).
- April 2020
- Article
Field Comparisons of Incentive-Compatible Preference Elicitation Techniques
By: Shawn A. Cole, A. Nilesh Fernando, Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman
Knowledge of consumer demand is important for firms, policy makers, and economists. One common tool for incentive-compatible demand elicitation, the Becker-DeGroot-Marschak (BDM) mechanism, has been widely used in laboratory settings but rarely evaluated for... View Details
Keywords: Incentive-compatible Elicitation; Experimental Methods; Weather Insurance; Rainfall Insurance; Agricultural Extension; Demand and Consumers
Cole, Shawn A., A. Nilesh Fernando, Daniel Stein, and Jeremy Tobacman. "Field Comparisons of Incentive-Compatible Preference Elicitation Techniques." Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 172 (April 2020): 33–56.