Insurance And Reinsurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Mar 2017
News

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

16 Sep 2015
News

Built for Speed

Rogers breaks in. “OK, guys, let’s try and keep the rest of these to about a minute.” He has other calls to make. On the next call, travel options are weighed (Toulouse? Berlin? Paris?) for meetings with a potential European collaborator.... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1997
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"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

institutions themselves are changing so dramatically - just look, for example, at the transformation of banks and insurance companies in the last couple of decades - we can't expect them to be our analytical... View Details

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

many guests commented on how innovative that was. Then we had an interesting debate on how insurance company AIA would look at a mistake made by UBTech’s robots in the factory. Whose fault is it? UBTech painted a picture for us that... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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 Dec 1999
News

A Class Act

If you turned to this article only after first checking out the Class Notes for your year, you are in good company. According to a 1995 Bulletin readership survey, 95 percent of all HBS alumni read the Class Notes regularly and have been... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

1831, Russell & Co. rose to become the largest American commission house in China until the firm’s demise in 1891. The collection includes order books, invoices, freight books, insurance documents, and... View Details

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

The choice is that we live in the Marina in San Francisco and we have health insurance and I work for Goldman Sachs—and people would give their left arm in this economy to have... View Details

10 Aug 2022
News

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

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

big bucks in the minds of most consumers. We see similar efforts by magazines that advertise their low per-issue prices or insurance companies that break the cost of their premiums down to a low, per-day cost. All these efforts are... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

Anthony Demas (39th PMD) Anthony Demas (39th PMD) of New York City and Madison, Connecticut, was managing director at Aon Corporation, a Chicago-based insurance and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

percent of the population has credit cards. Go-Jek drivers offered their customers rain gear and surgical masks as protection against the streets’ noxious fumes. And all Go-Jek drivers received road safety... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

Thanks to the combined energy of over six hundred enthusiastic alumni, a dozen insightful HBS faculty members, and a score of respected experts, the 1997 Harvard Business School Global Alumni Conference, "Greater China: Myths, Realities,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

Corporation) equivalent insures 401(k) assets—these two literatures came to the same conclusion: Locate highly taxed assets inside of tax-deferred accounts. Jim and I came in to this literature from a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

was such a nice person. People would come in and say, Mr. Estes, my mama just died and I don’t know what to do. We don’t have no insurance and we... View Details

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Oral Histories | Baker Library

did, when I finished the MBA, interview in insurance companies and other kinds of companies that were in the Hartford area. Career I loved mentoring people, training people. I set up little programs for... View Details

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Print View - Course Catalog

the creation of new instruments (such as mortgage-backed securities), others trace the emergence and maturation of critical financial institutions (including banks and View Details

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