Insurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2006
News

Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)

managing call centers for insurance companies but wanted to switch from telephonic to face-to-face service, so I decided to focus on restaurants. I spent the first year at HBS researching the industry and settled on desserts. They are the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; desserteries; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

01 Mar 2005
News

Better Care at Lower Cost

necessary, most patients are in and out in fifteen minutes, and services are covered by most health insurance plans. The clinics are what Christensen calls a “disruptive delivery mechanism.” Medical technology now makes it possible for... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

March 2008 (Revised January 2010)
Background Note

Note on Accountability in the U.S. Health Care System

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Michael Millenson

This note explains how health care providers, health insurers, and consumers are held accountable for their performance and the entrepreneurial opportunities thus created. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Insurance; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Demand and Consumers; Health Industry; United States

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Implicit Labor Contracts Viewed as Options: A Discussion of 'Insurance Aspects of Pensions'

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Decision Choices and Conditions; Contracts; Labor and Management Relations; Insurance

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19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

insurance benefits) for providing worker insurance. Employment regulations more directly tax firms making frequent labor adjustments than other labor market insurance mechanisms. Venture capital investors... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 27

extending the availability of insurance for eligible money market funds. When the insurance was first offered in September of 2008, RPGXX immediately applied for coverage. McCall's dilemma in February of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107055 Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B) Harvard Business School Case 107-066 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM group are among the strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

insure that the wealthy provided their proportionate share of funding to enable government to channel funds to such endeavors as the environment, support for the poor, and the development of the arts. The objective was to create a society... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Books

and pushing costs out of the reach of millions. Herzlinger outlines a plan for a consumer-driven system that puts insurance money in the hands of patients, removes the middleman in the doctor-patient relationship, and gives employers cost... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2017
News

Research Brief: Developing High-Tech Talent

occupations, such as computer support specialists, insurance underwriters, and customer service representatives. Fuller also contends that American companies should consider learning from their European counterparts, which provide... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, Verdana, sans-serif;">India Knowledge@Wharton Produced at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, the newsletter includes articles in the areas of Finance and Investment, Leadership and Change,... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

Blameless Victim: Our Ten-Year Legal Battle against Zurich American Insurance and American International Group by Harold S. Rhodes (MBA 1980) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) This is the detailed story of the Rhodes family’s... View Details

Student-Profile

Olivia Zhao

incentives for companies to make drugs, but then you get to the point where someone has to pay for them. The question is, how do insurers and payers decide what to pay for drugs, and how does that affect patients who may be faced with a... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

The Business of Babies

said Spar. Pricing inequities (90 percent of couples conceive for free), inconsistent insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and ambiguous legislation around property and privacy rights all create a unique market environment. Until... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

Freyd); profit-oriented risk managers and payment processors such as insurers (R. MacKenzey, Emre Erkut, and others); specialized service providers (including malpractice lawyers) at various points in the channel (C. J. Cullinane, Michael... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

28 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 28, 2015

Accumulation and Labor Force Participation of Disability Insurance Applicants By: Shu, Pian Abstract—This paper provides empirical evidence of the existence of forward-looking asset-accumulation behavior among disability-insurance... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Private companies: fast growing | Baker Library

Best Small Companies) Fortune Rankings (ex: 100 Fastest Growing Companies ) Inc. 5000 FormDs.com Nearly all startups and investment firms file Form Ds with the SEC when they raise money. Form D filings contain: amount of money raised, equity or debt insurance, View Details

11 May 2010
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First Look: May 11

United States, expanding coverage and regulating insurers. However, it was not clear that expanding coverage would resolve a longstanding dilemma of rising costs for insurance and care. As the Department of Health and Human Services... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2012
Supplement

William Jeffrey: Departing Bay Colony (C)

By: Lena G. Goldberg

The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details

Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Governance Compliance; Leadership; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; United States

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May 2002
Case

Mellon Investor Services

By: Thomas J. DeLong

James Aramanda, head of Mellon Investor Services, must decide how to change the focus of his business. He works with consultants to create a change strategy to enhance a business that is already doing well. Will he be able to interest his professionals in changing the... View Details