Insurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1998
News

Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

is between companies that serve traditional banking needs and those catering to clients with more complicated financial lives. A crucial delineation," he says, "may be between those for whom federal deposit insurance is important - that... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

providers, abetted by legislators and insurance companies, have made it virtually impossible for them to succeed. Unlike any other U.S. industry, consumers do not set prices, yet they provide all the money through taxes for government... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

really pay off when companies need that goodwill from the public? In a recent working paper, No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events, Oberholzer-Gee set out to test the insurance hypothesis using... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

August 2020
Supplement

Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (B)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Alpana Thapar

Keywords: Accounting; Insurance Industry; Middle East

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July 2013 (Revised August 2013)
Case

Seeking Alpha in the Afterlife: CMG Life Services and the Life Settlement Industry

By: Lauren Cohen

Keywords: Asset Management; Insurance Industry; United States

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July 2007 (Revised April 2008)
Teaching Note

Innovation at Progressive (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Frances X. Frei

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Insurance Industry

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August 1993
Case

USAA: Business Process Review for the Great Lakes Region

By: James L. Heskett and Roger H. Hallowell

USAA proposes to develop a new set of processes for its property and casualty division. The case focuses on processes used in automobile claims. View Details

Keywords: Business Processes; Insurance Industry; United States

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September 1992 (Revised May 1995)
Case

Progressive Corporation Transportation Group (A)

By: James L. Heskett

Keywords: Insurance Industry

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01 Jun 2011
News

Noted & Quoted

“These board fees for [health] insurance companies are off the reservation.” — HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan, arguing that nonprofit board service should be about giving “time, talent, and treasure,” not compensation. (Boston Globe,... View Details

Maurice R. Greenberg

Greenberg helped grow American International Group into one of the world-wide leaders in insurance and financial services. Greenberg grew American International Group almost entirely internally, using his own, in-house trained managers to... View Details

Keywords: Finance

John F. Dryden

1875, less than 2% of Americans had life insurance, which was considered a luxury item. By 1899, that number had grown to 17%. Dryden also pioneered “industrial” life insurance by making small industrial policies available to factory... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 2011
News

Donor Spotlight

combining an outright gift through a family foundation with a planned gift, which, in this case, makes HBS an insurance policy beneficiary. Such creative thinking about philanthropy means more support for George Leadership Fellows, MBA... View Details

February 1998
Teaching Note

Mid Ocean Limited: Trading Catastrophe Index Options, Teaching Note

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Markus Mullarkey

Teaching Note for (9-298-073). View Details

Keywords: Insurance Industry; Bermuda

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August 2010 (Revised August 2010)
Teaching Note

Malcolm Life Enhances Its Variable Annuities (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen and David J. Pearlman

Teaching Note for 311041. View Details

Keywords: Annuities; Insurance Industry

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August 2008
Supplement

Progressive Corporation: Variable Dividends (CW)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Brenda W. Chia

Keywords: Insurance Industry

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Geneen diversified International Telephone and Telegraph through acquiring shares of companies ranging from the Sheraton Hotel Chain to the Hartford Insurance Company. Geneen grew his firm from $765 million to $8.5 billion in revenues to... View Details

Keywords: Communications

26 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 26

order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne