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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Pitchfork populism over the issue reached a crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers’ cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
that the attacks had caused financial damage that went well beyond losses in passenger revenues, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (September 20, 2001) reported. "Many insurance companies have notified airlines of astronomic premium increases,"...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
understand. My first jobs were in retailing, on the finance side. Thirteen years after HBS, I had a midlife crisis. I was working for a soon-to-be defunct department store in Baltimore and knew it was time to get out. I left my job to...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
school fresh out of Yale. "I should have listened to my father," he admits with a wry smile. After four years of "just reading and writing" as an insurance company lawyer, Shafir, then newly wed to his wife, Lorna, entered HBS in 1982....
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Communications Group) has secured $37 million in financing to support wireless communication programs in underdeveloped regions, including sub-Saharan Africa. "We are currently setting up voicemail through wireless public pay phones at...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 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 don’t have no graves or anything like that. In the area that we’re in, it’s poverty. And my...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
uninsured was a low 10 percent (compared with 15 percent nationally), and it already had in place a free-care pool for financing the uninsured, which most states do not. “Nevertheless,” Slavin concludes, “the Massachusetts health-reform...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
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...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
Mills shows how capitalism's financial value chain — comprising venture capitalists, bankers, and entrepreneurs and compelled by the lure of potential fortunes to be made — failed in its role to exercise caution in the formation and View Details
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Nancy O. Perry
- 22 Jan 2018
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
Services (CMS). CMS is the government agency that oversees Medicare and Medicaid, programs that provide health insurance to more than one in three Americans. Due to our size, our actions impact the entire health care system. I collect...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Truth Be Told
“cash for information” may not be the right way to talk about it, because it comes across as if someone is making a lot of money without any costs. It’s more like an insurance payment. Whistleblowers incur a lot of costs and get some...
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
approach. The authors draw on years of research and teaching to deliver a truly interactive learning experience. The case studies cover all areas of corporate finance, including capital structure, financing needs, and project and company...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
theory was very attractive to me, and when I realized that financial market problems could be a legitimate area for serious academic research, I was off and running. One of the nice things about this award of the Nobel is that it further underscores the legitimacy of...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
savings, and insurance products. Together, WWB and the leaders in its network work with policymakers to create financial systems for the needy majority in their regions. Barry joined WWB as president in 1990 after fifteen years in top...
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- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
leaders engaging on the idea of a national-level response to climate change for years, but remarked that interest has notably increased among its members. “We’re now seeing [interest from] folks from the insurance sector, from banks, from...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
She’s Got Your Back
small—almost like an insurance policy.” Angie’s List has deep HBS roots. Cofounder and venture capitalist Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992) struggled to find service providers in Indianapolis to fix up his historic home, finally turning to Unified...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
including Dollar Shave Club, Rent the Runway, and “pay as you fly” insurance for drone flights. Finally, the authors outline the challenges in adopting these new models and offer guidance to overcome them. Spirituality After Harvard: My...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
business entrepreneur Mancuso tells the tales of the most remarkable people he has met in the business world who have been involved with the CEO Clubs. From Wall Street to Bay Street: The Origins and Evolution of American and Canadian View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
in public-private financing for housing and holistic community development have come to the fore. Laurie J. Gould (MBA '96) is manager of finance at the Boston office of one such organization, The Community...
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Garry Emmons
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
NLK: What we are seeing in terms of green financing emerging in the world is really quite significant and it started with green bonds. Can we get the global insurance companies in the world and the banks to...
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