Insurance And Reinsurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

dissatisfied customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally, strategy was... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

with Watson today, across 45 countries and 20 industries. For Kenny, the genius of Watson is not that it tries to be one service for every sector, but that it specializes, just as the experts in various fields specialize. So today there... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues

practiced; what it means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes,... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach

data, and pay for any loss of business you’ve had,” says Itskovich. Half of the startup’s 180 employees work in areas like security research and data science, while the rest handle traditional View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

do health care insurance or additive manufacturing. You know, how much more quickly they can move, how much more dedicated they are. I think those are things. And when I think back, like if I could have done... View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Saving Grace

or cease to exist,” she says. Some people aren’t even aware that they’ve been auto-enrolled, according to the Association of British Insurers and the Pensions Policy Institute, which recently found 1.6... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

apples" at this point? Specifically, what kind of evidence, in addition to that described above, would you try to obtain in order to insure that our graduate schools of business grant the MBA to those in whom society View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

population is increasing faster than any other nation in history, while its birthrate is shrinking. That double whammy is reducing both the workforce to care for the elderly and the tax base to support its universal health View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong

technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they pursue. Since customers cannot use... View Details

26 Mar 2025
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Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore

Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Mar 2025
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2025 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

was "Climate Risk: Are we headed into an uninsurable future?" which was a conversation around the role of insurance in climate adaptation, and key innovations such as nature-based solutions that mitigate... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

All in the Family

On October 1, 1976, Jon Pellegrin (6th OPM), the then 32-year-old vice president of Wisconsin's Johnson Hill Press, walked solemnly into his father George's office. It was time. Slumping into the chair opposite his father's desk, he took a deep breath View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business

Zero. "We helped with matters related to reopening, such as tracking down pro bono legal assistance on critical insurance and real-estate issues," she says. "We also brought in top experts from the... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

01 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

manufacturers and service companies will seek permanently to diversify their supply chains radically going forward We might accept the lower financial results as the insurance premium we have to pay to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

03 Nov 2011
What Do You Think?

The Ultimate Question in Management

by authenticity and passion?" (implied by a response from Harry Abrikian). Steve Sheinkopf would alter the process to insure that he receives feedback only from his "A players, not by the Bs (or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit

programming for a life insurance company, and once he finished his law degree he stuck around and rose to become the firm’s secretary and general... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

22 Feb 2022
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Launch Codes

painfully with finances every time a family member gets an unexpected diagnosis. We started Hive Health to make health insurance more accessible to the employees (and their loved ones) of small- to medium-size businesses, View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Alvaro Dominguez

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

private money from insurance companies, pension funds, endowments, sovereign funds, and high net worth individuals currently invested in global fixed income securities, mostly earning near zero real yields.... View Details

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The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising

advertising went hand in hand. As one lithographer explained, “True, our pictures are many of them for the soap manufacturer, the insurance companies, and the patent-medicine man; but we try in our way to be... View Details

10 Aug 2022
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Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

more older adults may be looking for more flexibility. And they may not want to work the 40, 80-hour timeframe, whatever that number was. And so, that is a new way of accommodating it. They may not need... View Details

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