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- 22 Aug 2022
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Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
First, the supply chain in health care is a mess. There are so many intermediaries selling to other people, and Amazon has done extremely well by streamlining the supply chain. So they must be thinking that the current insurers and other... View Details
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Careers - Health Care
shared. Biotech-Pharma Industry Week Health Care Investing Week Digital Health Industry Week Medtech Industry Week Health Insurance Industry Week Care Delivery Industry Week Alumni Network HBS MBA students are connected to nearly 80,000... View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability
expecting that the margin from a comprehensive set of services will transform the customer into a profitable relationship. Figure 1 shows how one insurance company managed its customer relationships once it understood its full costs of... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
deductions or credits. "Banks are extremely chary about extending capital to them. Even if they do, banks charge cannabis firms hefty fees." These inefficiencies are compounded by a dearth of capital. Banks face a severe penalty—nullification of depositary View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
firms' workers' comp insurance companies, over time that would translate to lower insurance premiums for the employers. In other words, those who charge that OSHA regulations cost business money have it... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
referred to as the godfather of private equity in Asia, Kim has led some of the region’s most significant transactions at MBK, including the 2009 acquisition, with Goldman Sachs, of Universal Studios Japan; the 2013 acquisition of ING View Details
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Value Measurement for Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
part of their business model Executives from health care insurance companies, government entities that pay for health care, or other payor organizations Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other health care... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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My First Job
within the actuarial department of Aetna Insurance Company. I had interviewed for two positions in the company. The woman who got the other job worked for a superstar who burned out, and all his protégés eventually were eliminated. In my... View Details
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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Martin Schleicher. Jill J. Avery : Awarded the 2016 Private Company Board of the Year by the National Association of Corporate Directors, New England Chapter, along with the other corporate directors of the Amica Mutual Insurance Company.... View Details
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Cotting House | About
array of New England businesses and charitable organizations benefited from Cotting’s experience and largesse. In addition to his activities at Harvard, he was vice chairman of the board of the Provident Institution for Savings, and director of the Blackstone Mutual... View Details
- 11 Oct 2006
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How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
a discussion on Accounting for Social Insurance (PV): http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/si_newsrelease.pdf Of course, dependency ratios are not reduced without other economic and social effects. For example, to the extent that current... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jul 2001
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What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?
don't invest the time necessary to provide effective oversight of management activities. And many are reluctant to tread too closely to the line between oversight and management. This may help explain why boards are accused of acting far too slowly in discharging their... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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The Panama Canal
The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
Stanley as a powerful presence in the world of global finance. After graduating from Princeton in 1957 at the age of 20, Fisher worked for a time in the university's admissions office and as a trainee at the Insurance Company of North... View Details
- 30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE
first job interview in 1990. When the owner of the company asked if I had any other questions, I made clear that insurance coverage for my domestic partner was a condition of my employment, which wasn’t really done then. Had I not had the... View Details
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Cash House | About
in 1946. His achievements in business include helping establish the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and passing the Federal Reserve Act. Yet these accomplishments are overshadowed by his active promulgation of segregationist... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his uncle, a janitor, to “be of service... View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do
Brodsky. “With idle time, the organization is often hurt by it, and it’s not enjoyable for employees either.” Involuntary idle time can have a variety of causes, including built-in excess capacity, in which a company intentionally schedules more workers than it needs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
Cunningham, who had been born into slavery. Wendell Thomas Cunningham HBS MBA 1915 Atlanta, GA Clark University, 1913 Wendell T. Cunningham completed his MBA with his thesis "Plan for a Reorganization of a Fraternal Insurance Company." He... View Details