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  • April 2022
  • Article

AI Insurance: How Liability Insurance Can Drive the Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence in Health Care

By: Ariel Dora Stern, Avi Goldfarb, Timo Minssen and W. Nicholson Price II
Despite enthusiasm about the potential to apply artificial intelligence (AI) to medicine and health care delivery, adoption remains tepid, even for the most compelling technologies. In this article, the authors focus on one set of challenges to AI adoption: those... View Details
Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Medicine; Health Care and Treatment; Legal Liability; Insurance; Technology Adoption; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 17 Feb 2022
  • Blog Post

The Fifth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS

growing a plant-based business, animal law and entrepreneurship, early and later-stage funding, and the future of the food revolution. On the first day View Details
  • 15 Jul 2019
  • Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

of those in finance as they benefit from the obfuscation; it creates more mystery about what they do. This is particularly true when one looks at the array of differing... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2001 (Revised November 2001)
  • Case

Provident Life and Accident Insurance: The Acquisition of Paul Revere

By: Mihir A. Desai, Frank Williamson, Mark Veblen and Yuming Zou
Provident Life & Accident Insurance Co. has made an initial bid to acquire a primary competitor, Paul Revere, from conglomerate, Textron. The due diligence process uncovers a significant block of problematic disability insurance policies. Provident is forced to assess... View Details
Keywords: Insurance; Financial Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Business Strategy; Cash Flow; Price; Bids and Bidding; Financial Reporting; Business Conglomerates; Insurance Industry; Service Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management

organizations, including the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Sinai Congregation, the Jewish United Fund, the Fourth Presbyterian Church, and Chicago's Roman Catholic Archdiocese. McCarter... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 24 Oct 2018
  • News

Exploring the Future of Work for Women

Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Club of India recently hosted its first conference devoted to exploring gender issues in the workplace of the future. The Future of Work:... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • June 2014 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

Southeastern Asset Management Challenges Buyout at Dell

By: Paul Healy, Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
In late 2012, Michael Dell wants to take Dell Inc., the company he founded, private. Mr. Dell believes that the successful company's transformation from a personal computer (PC) manufacturer to an enterprise solutions and services provider (ESS) is dependent on going... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyout Transaction; Leveraged Recapitalization; Management Buyout; Dell, Inc.; Hedge Fund; Corporate Governance Theory; Valuation; Valuation Ratios; Valuation Methodologies; Board Of Directors; Boards Of Directors; Carl Icahn; Computer Services Industries; Proxy Contest; Proxy Battles; Proxy Fight; Proxy Advisor; Financial Accounting; Financial Analysis; Financial Ratios; Finance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Corporate Finance; Leveraged Buyouts; Computer Industry; United States
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  • 21 Nov 2017
  • News

Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

and alumni shared their insights on the future of the energy and clean-tech sectors. “It was a chance for current students to make connections with alumni working in these industries, and find inspiration,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power
  • 29 Jan 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Rising Cost of Consumer Attention: Why You Should Care, and What You Can Do about It

Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira
  • January 2020
  • Case

SK Group: Social Progress Credits

By: George Serafeim, Ethan Rouen and David Freiberg
SK Group was one of the largest companies South Korea. A family-run conglomerate consisting of around 120 subsidiaries and employing more than 100,000, SK was tightly knit into the fabric of Korean society. SK viewed their future success as contingent upon the strength... View Details
Keywords: Impact; Impact Investing; Impact Measurement; Social Value; Social Development; Conglomerates; Measurement Of Purpose; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Capital Markets; Innovation; Environmental Impact; Collaboration; Social Enterprise; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Measurement and Metrics; Value Creation; Cooperation; Environmental Sustainability; Employment; Accounting; Energy Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Chemical Industry; South Korea
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  • Web

2.3 Community Standards of Conduct | MBA

violation of published university rules or federal state or local law on University premises or at University-sponsored activities; and misuse of... View Details
  • 16 May 2016
  • HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

prided itself on avoiding artificial ingredients, opting instead to use a relatively short supply chain of local growers for many of its ingredients. That strategy just might... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • January 2022 (Revised November 2023)
  • Supplement

Uber in China (C): The Cost of Success for Didi

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
On June 30, 2021, ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing (Didi) raised $4.4 billion in its initial public offering (IPO) on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), the largest IPO of a Chinese company listed on an American exchange since Alibaba raised $25 billion in 2014.... View Details
Keywords: Uber; Didi Chuxing; Start-up Growth; Regulation; Ride-sharing; Transportation; Business Startups; Business and Government Relations; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Growth and Development; Policy; Competition; Laws and Statutes; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; China
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    Mihir A. Desai

    Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

    • 01 Jun 2024
    • News

    Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

    ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details
    Keywords: April White
    • October 2008
    • Article

    The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns

    By: Lauren Cohen, Andrea Frazzini and Christopher J. Malloy
    This paper uses social networks to identify information transfer in security markets. We focus on connections between mutual fund managers and corporate board members via shared education networks. We find that portfolio managers place larger bets on firms they are... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Information Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Announcements; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Asset Pricing; Governing and Advisory Boards
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    • 12 Mar 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

    managers have risen in power, general managers may be losing some of theirs. A new working paper, Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management, explores... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • July 2002
    • Article

    The Sale of Ideas: Strategic Disclosure, Property Rights, and Contracting

    By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
    Ideas are difficult to sell when buyers cannot assess an idea's value before it is revealed and sellers cannot protect a revealed idea. These problems exist in a variety of intellectual property sales ranging from pure ideas to poorly protected inventions and reflect... View Details
    Keywords: Intellectual Property; Contracts; Strategy; Valuation
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    • 14 Jan 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

    "Nobody outside India understands what that means instead of going to a dealer and taking a vehicle and going home, you had to make a booking, and your turn would come probably after ten years," said Bajaj. At View Details
    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Integrity: Without It Nothing Works

    By: Michael C. Jensen
    There is confusion between integrity, morality and ethics. In our much longer paper on the topic (see "Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics and Legality" (available at http://ssrn.com/abstract=920625)) my co-authors,... View Details
    Keywords: Trust; Moral Sensibility; Legal Liability; Behavior
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