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- 01 Mar 2004
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The Business of Babies
said Spar. Pricing inequities (90 percent of couples conceive for free), inconsistent insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and ambiguous legislation around property and privacy rights all create a unique market environment. Until...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Nancy Hall (MBA 1974)
consulting to a dozen health and human-services organizations, two of which I still work with today. In addition, I work part-time for the Maryland Association of Nonprofit Organizations running an insurance...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
make decisions in challenging situations. Health care reform was making national headlines—and not in a good way—about the time the conference was held. Did you find that it quelled optimism or that people simply viewed it as another...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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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...
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- 03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet
secondary leukemia caused by myelodysplastic syndrome, a group of diseases in which the bone marrow makes few healthy blood cells. The doctors changed the woman’s therapy plan, and her health improved considerably. She was discharged from...
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Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
organized by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative and the HBS Club of Washington, DC. The expert panel featured voices from the energy, environmental, and governmental sectors; attendees from fields as diverse as education, health...
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April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 28 May 2019
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Cure All
measures, and they require a lot of work. You can see why people are, in my view, overly content with the status quo. When the next recession hits, I expect to see the employers that are purchasing health plans start to demand something...
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- 25 Sep 2009
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Are You Being Served?
Recently, I successfully appealed and overturned a ruling handed down against me by the State of Massachusetts. After being found at fault for a minor, non-injury traffic accident, I challenged the decision, hoping to reverse it and prevent an increase in my View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
Coalition, an organization coordinating business, government, and nonprofit efforts to improve India’s water quality and health outcomes. Naina Lal Kidwai: This was not a sexy business. You don't want to put your name to toilets. You're...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market
Amar Singh (MBA 1998) traces his curiosity about the Indian dental marketplace to the type of experience that might scare most people away for good. Lured in by the $20 price—roughly equal to Singh’s insurance copay when he lived in San...
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Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books
including start-up, funding, growth, alliances and collaboration, and performance measurement — to help readers gain an in-depth understanding of the distinctive characteristics of the social enterprise context and organizations. Who Killed View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
commercial and investment banking had been torn down, and banks, investment banks, and insurance companies were in each others’ businesses. “As a result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market for mortgage-related...
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- 01 Dec 1999
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Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
instruction. The initial phases of planning and design have just begun, with construction anticipated to commence in the summer of 2000 and completion scheduled for late 2001. Hawes retired last year as chairman and CEO of Life Re Corporation, a Stamford,...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
typically banks and insurance companies - in return for their upfront capital." Designed to attract private investment, the program is a proven success with more capital chasing it than can currently be accommodated. Supporters are...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
records for our constituents. We also take a leadership role in responsible dog ownership, including legislative issues involving dogs. The AKC provides assistance for a number of affiliated organizations. We give a million dollars a year to the AKC Canine View Details
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Susan Young
- 13 Nov 2020
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Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
practiced; what it means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes,...
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- 25 Aug 2015
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Sunset in the East?
markets? —Timothy O'Sullivan (MBA 2001) KIRBY: I agree completely. The challenge is huge, however, since good health care (anywhere) is costly, and at present it is largely only available in quality in larger cities. The basic View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Noted & Quoted
90 and 95 percent of all the residential mortgages this year have been insured by, guaranteed by, or securitized by the government.” — HBS senior lecturer Nicolas Retsinas noting that the government has kept the residential housing market...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
the revolution has come to health care? While consumers have begun to insist on health care that is as convenient and personalized as nearly every other good or service, most View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
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Ink: Home Cooking, Secure Retirements, and Restoring Humanity to Finance
largest senior population in the history of the United States. And millions of boomer households are financially unprepared, one extended health crisis, job loss, or traumatic event from insolvency. As individuals facing this situation,...
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