Publications

Research Summary

Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success

Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details

10 Feb 2011
News

HBS Faculty and Alumni on Squawk Box

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

Web

2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

experiences, but most were financial industry professionals located in the U.S.. More than 80% of the participants listed investment management, real estate, private equity, or banking as their industry. Figure 1: Share of Respondents by... View Details

September 1994
Teaching Note

Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction TN

By: Dwight B. Crane and Patrick Moreton

Teaching Note for (9-292-114). View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry

June 2011 (Revised November 2011)
Case

The Expansion of Ping An

By: Robert C. Pozen and Nina Yang

In June 2010, Mingzhe Ma, chairman and chief executive officer of Ping An Insurance (Group) Company of China ("Ping An" or "the Company"), sat down with Sun Jianyi, vice chief executive officer and executive vice president at Ping An, to discuss the future direction of... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Conglomerates; Conferences; Banks and Banking; Financial Strategy; Insurance; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Strategic Planning; Opportunities; Diversification; Expansion; China

April 1995 (Revised August 1995)
Supplement

Empire Blue Cross and Blue Shield (C)

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Ramona Hilgenkamp

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry

December 2005 (Revised July 2006)
Case

What Should the Federal Reserve Do? Thoughts of Greenspan and Bernanke

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Noel Maurer

Presents remarks by Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke on monetary policy, explicit inflation targets, and the relative merits of asset price targeting. View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Asset Pricing; Central Banking; Financial Strategy; Policy; Banking Industry

January 2002 (Revised November 2002)
Case

Abelli and Saviotti at Banca Commerciale Italiana (B)

By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Kathleen L. McGinn and Massimiliano Belingheri

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry; Italy

Article

Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance

By: Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Michael I. Norton and Jordi Quoidbach

In three field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and teammates with prosocial bonuses, a novel type of bonus spent on others rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier... View Details

Keywords: Satisfaction; Groups and Teams; Performance; Compensation and Benefits; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Canada; Belgium; Australia

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06 Mar 2018
News

A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale

scaling local knowledge. Back in the United States, that realization led Hunt to explore other aspects of the health care industry’s value chain, from billing to insurance to product development. “I loved the sense that I was working in... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

They came from as far away as Nigeria and as close as Harvard Square, from industries ranging from banking to television. They were entrepreneurs who headed their own companies, senior executives at major... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

2013
Working Paper

Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance

By: Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn and Jordi Quoidbach

In two field studies, we explore the impact of providing employees and teammates with prosocial bonuses, a novel type of bonus spent on others rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier... View Details

Keywords: Satisfaction; Groups and Teams; Performance; Compensation and Benefits; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Canada; Belgium; Australia

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Article

Affording to Wait: Medicare Initiation and the Use of Health Care

By: Guy David, Philip Saynisch, Victoria Acevado-Perez and Mark D. Neuman

Delays in receipt of necessary diagnostic and therapeutic medical procedures related to the timing of Medicare initiation at age 65 years have potentially broad welfare implications. We use 2005–2007 data from Florida and North Carolina to estimate the effect of... View Details

Keywords: Medicare; Behavior; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; North Carolina; Florida

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March 2015 (Revised December 2016)
Case

American Well: The DTC Decision

By: Elie Ofek and Natalie Kindred

In late 2013, telehealth company American Well, which developed a digital platform that allowed patients to conduct online medical consultations with physicians, is considering pursuing a direct-to-consumer (DTC) strategy. Founded in 2006, American Well had, to date,... View Details

1995
Chapter

Financial Infrastructure and Public Policy: A Functional Perspective

By: Robert C. Merton and Zvi Bodie

Keywords: Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Banking Industry

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

health insurance. Every year, they have to review alternative health insurance plans, make risk-return tradeoffs, and choose the ones they prefer for themselves and their... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

15 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 15

we find significant price differences between institutional investors' tranches and banks' tranches on the same loans, even though they share the same underlying fundamentals. Increasing demand pressure causes the interest rate on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2009
Case

The Risk Management Foundation of the Harvard Medical Institutions, Inc.

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Stephen P. Bradley and Natalie Kindred

Through its uniquely proactive approach to medical malpractice risk management, the Risk Management Foundation (RMF) has decreased claims—and premiums—for the Harvard hospitals it insures. The RMF is the captive medico-legal insurer of the Harvard medical institutions... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Risk Management; Performance Improvement; Safety; Insurance Industry; Insurance Industry; Boston