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- 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 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 Jun 2022
- News
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 insurance activities such as underwriting and...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 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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- 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 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
insurance contracts. An elected member of the National Academy of Sciences and a past president of the American Finance Association, Merton is a leading figure in the School's Global Financial Systems...
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- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Bob Ryan (MBA 1970) was born in Detroit, the first in his family to graduate from college. His Dad was a Chrysler factory worker whose schooling ended in fifth grade, his Mom a homemaker. But...
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- 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
- 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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- 18 May 2017
- News
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 counsel. Along the way, however, Freeman realized he was more interested in general...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 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 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
beginnings of the genomic research industry and all the companies that grew —and are still growing —from that. It was also the time when the concept of diagnostic related groups DRGs was introduced. DRGs essentially redefined health-care services as products that could...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Professor of Business Administration. "There are many challenges for firms in figuring out how to position themselves," notes Crane, who has taught finance and banking at HBS for many years. As consumers get more accustomed to using their...
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Susan Young
- 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 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
insurance payment, diagnostic testing, and physician visit, followed by an accurate assignment of the cost of employees and equipment at each process step. "The transformative result has been our ability to better measure costs that...
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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
telehealth to our advantage more than we have in the past. Because now the providers have ripped off the bandage. Telehealth procedures are in place. The health insurance plans are seeing the benefits and the cost savings. Beyond that,...
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- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
Watson. In 2014, the company announced a $1 billion investment in the Watson Unit, which would advance its cognitive computing technologies in not only medicine but law and finance and government services and culinary services and on and...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page