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- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
a discussion on Accounting for Social Insurance (PV): http://www.fasab.gov/pdffiles/si_newsrelease.pdf Of course, dependency ratios are not reduced without other economic and social effects. For example, to the extent that current... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
founder believes crowd-funding can become a pillar for development, but U.S. regulatory hurdles and resources constraints are substantial. The company is considering targeting non-diaspora investors, introducing new products like View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
and address some fundamental questions. He’ll also explain how these and other organizations have discovered that experimentation provides considerable competitive advantages. Why Some Platforms Thrive and Others Don't Professor Feng Zhu... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
Final-Offer Arbitration Challenge Gives Negotiators a Valuable New Tool By: Bazerman, Max H., and Daniel Kahneman Abstract—In legal disputes, contested insurance claims, and similarly adversarial negotiations, one party is likely to open... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Commodity Busters: Be a Price Maker, Not a Price Taker
two primary competitors, Checkpoint and Sensormatic, went at each other mercilessly, unbridled competition can be destructive. Sensible business managers focus primarily on their own success, not on creating failure for their competitors.... View Details
Keywords: by Benson P. Shapiro
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
we build, more than hazards. Yet vulnerable development remains legal, profitable, and most consumers don’t know the difference. Many policies indirectly encourage it. Look how the National Flood Insurance Program spurred floodplain... View Details
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Harvard Business School
and Connecticut General Insurance Corporation, where Jones became the first African American board member. Otis Gates III MBA 1963 Otis Gates grew up in Roxbury and graduated from both Harvard College and HBS. In 1968, Gates began his... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
every Congressional district is the health industry. Private insurers should have a freer range of competitive options through legislation that enables them to sell across state lines in the individual and... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
explain how to generate ideas with these skills, collaborate with "delivery-driven" colleagues to implement ideas, and build innovation skills throughout your organization to sharpen its competitive edge. They also provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
the positive effects of transparency—highlighting a possible tension between promotion-based strategies designed to influence and transparency-based strategies designed to inform. Competitive advantage through transparency Putting it all... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- Web
2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
now, and how will they use their power? Will we see bigger bets on likely blockbusters, more intense competition in areas such as streaming and esports, and more industry consolidation? Drawing on dozens of recent case studies, Professor... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
S. McNamara, were few; he apparently did not return for reunions nor did he contribute to the Bulletin’s Class Notes. At graduation, MacDonald requested that his diploma be mailed to him. From Cambridge, MacDonald moved his family back to upstate New York, where he... View Details
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
quality or prices for consumers. Such mergers reduce competition in the insurance market, ultimately dampening much-needed innovation. What’s more, there’s no requirement or expectation that any savings from... View Details
- 20 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind
option that is often more convenient than a traditional taxicab service—not to mention less expensive. With these benefits, consumers and investors are also tempted to give these companies a pass for accusations that they cut corners on issues like background checks,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
with these markers of poor market performance? Q: And what’s your response to that? Dafny: It is heavily linked to the limited and diminishing degree of competition in so many health care sectors. Sadun: And we actually see that in the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
undercapitalized, incompetent insurance entrants will be reduced by competition and regulation by state regulatory bodies. Q: In your new article in Harvard Business Review, you write, "The current... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
Marymount University for the national competition and support from Pacific Life Insurance Company, Lawry’s Foods, Twentieth Century Fox, Walt Disney Company, and many other businesses. In 1982, Academic... View Details
- 12 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care
We believe that competition is the root of the problem with U.S. health care performance. But this does not mean we advocate a state-controlled system or a single-payer system; those approaches would only make matters worse. On the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
with the potential to help the most people. —Rene Robichaud (MBA 1984) I suggest that you target the applications that will most likely impact insurers. If insurers see the value in it, they will certainly patronize it, and that will give... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in response to a... View Details