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- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
In July 2012, retired United States Army Major General Gale Pollock created Elevivo, a venture that worked on developing a comprehensive disease management software system to support the growing number of visually impaired individuals by providing them with tailored... View Details
Keywords: Disease Management; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Education; Information Technology; Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: General Gale Pollock and Services for the Vision Impaired." Harvard Business Publishing Case 314-029, 2013.
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Employers - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
information and advising services to employees to supplement other sources Offer health plan structures that provide good value and encourage saving for long-term health needs Create collaborative vehicles with other employers to offer group View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
with the potential to help the most people. —Rene Robichaud (MBA 1984) I suggest that you target the applications that will most likely impact insurers. If insurers see the value in it, they will certainly patronize it, and that will give... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
Harold S. Geneen
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
- 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 as a way to earn higher yield. The growing purchase by such... View Details
- September 2014 (Revised January 2017)
- Teaching Note
Access Health CT: Marketing Affordable Care (A) & (B)
By: John A. Quelch
Keywords: Affordable Care Act (ACA); Marketing Communications; Market Segmentation; Marketing Management; Startup Management; Analysis; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Measurement and Metrics; Outcome or Result; Performance; Strategy; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; North and Central America
- April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (G)
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Ramona Hilgenkamp. "Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (G)." Harvard Business School Supplement 195-222, April 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
- June 1992
- Teaching Note
U.S. Health Care Systems, Prospectus and Maxicare Health Plans, Inc., Teaching Note
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Wisdom and a special cause
Lorne Adrain (MBA '83), who owns an insurance and estate-planning business in Providence, Rhode Island, has just published his second book, The Most Important Thing I Know about the Spirit of Sport. "Inside are handwritten thoughts from... 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
- 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
- August 2008
- Supplement
Progressive Corporation: Variable Dividends (CW)
By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Brenda W. Chia
Keywords: Insurance Industry
Jules S. Bache
Bache took over his uncle’s brokerage business and built it into one of the premier financial services firms in the early decades of the twentieth century. His operation helped to facilitate the reorganization of the American Spirits Manufacturing Company and the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
(http://www.alumni.hbs.edu/bulletin/2009/june/toobig.html) is the best way to head off future financial meltdowns and deal with institutions that are too big to fail. Specifically, he advocates: higher capital requirements; leverage limits; FDIC-like View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
employer-based insurance will return Amitabh Chandra: More demand for insurance exchanges Recessions and pandemics create job losses that highlight the problems of tying health View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
Ever Need (over one million copies sold); Fire and Ice (a biography of Charles Revson and Revlon); Getting By on $100,000 a Year (and Other Sad Tales); and The Invisible Bankers, an irreverent look at the insurance industry. He has won... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- Research Summary
Overview
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
- February 2023
- Article
A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the U.S.
By: Katherine Baicker, Amitabh Chandra and Mark Shepard
This JAMA Forum discusses alternative ways to achieve universal coverage in the US such as administrative simplification in the Affordable Care Act plans to increase enrollment, having a basic policy that would be available to everyone, and options for supplemental... View Details
Baicker, Katherine, Amitabh Chandra, and Mark Shepard. "A Different Framework to Achieve Universal Coverage in the U.S." e230187. JAMA Health Forum 4, no. 2 (February 2023).
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
assets in 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 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
In the United States, employers have often treated health benefits as a necessary evil. They have focused on the rising cost of providing health insurance benefits and taken aggressive steps to bring costs down, or at least to slow the... View Details