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- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a...
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- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
leaders and policymakers understand the disproportionate impacts of climate change on low income and marginalized communities. Spar and Choi touched on a range of issues, including the vital importance of trees for poor urban areas, the changing needs for View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 06 Oct 2022
- News
On the Road to Recovery
company while still at HBS and had recently sold his investments, was intrigued by the opportunity. Travel nursing had gotten its start in the 1980s, and its biggest player had recently gone public, revealing a wealth of data about the sector. “To me, it looked like an...
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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 Dec 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
have the experience, or maybe one of their friends does, of “Hey, I rented my car to a stranger, and it worked out well.” As more people have those experiences and they talk about it with their friends, it’s going to help them trust in these systems. What can we do to...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Billion-Dollar Question
places that he said were "logistically hard and time-consuming." Few people in the world are as able as HBS grads to take a sabbatical: We are blessed with high incomes, fat savings (you do save, right?), and the ultimate career insurance...
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- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
transparently available to the car owner, we also rely heavily on insurance as a product. We today work with some of the largest insurance companies in the country to be able to ensure that every car user is...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
have a strong network of industry partners that can serve as a sounding board and even as potential customers," Tecco says during an interview at Rock Health's Chinatown offices. (With full-time staff projected to grow from 7 to 12...
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- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
advertisers, historical and real-time traffic information to insurance underwriters, and more. Mistele was a Detroit kid, the son of a lawyer, who had an early interest in technology. “When I was in high school, I worked for an electrical...
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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
brilliant, effective innovators have forced sluggish U.S. industries to become more productive. Sam Walton’s exquisitely detailed supply chain management, coupled with his daring decision to locate Wal-Marts in rural areas, kick-started...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
across a far-flung network of operations, and motivating everyone with a clear understanding of the new company’s mission. Add to those formidable tasks the steep learning curve Parker faced by moving from the service-based rigors of View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
sales of $37 billion. The company’s aggressive investment in research has made it an industry leader in new drug approvals. And when opportunity knocks, Vasella doesn’t hesitate to broaden Novartis’s business mix through acquisitions. He...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
second year,” he says. Gardner has built Kyruus into an industry leader in providing search, scheduling, and data management services for health systems. Simplifying the Process “We don’t define what is right for the patients. Our job is...
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Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) Halle Tecco (MBA 2011) has been a health care investor since she graduated from HBS. Her fascination with the massive disruptions underway in the industry led her to found the Rock Health...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
car company. You need to go to business school.” In 2006, during his first year at HBS, Rogers sought out sectionmate Jeff Jones (MBA 2007), who had just left a job at Ford. On a run along the Charles one day, Jones laid out the state of the automotive View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
6 percent, and the continent as a whole is growing just a point below that, compared with an average rate of 4 percent for the world's industrialized countries. The challenges are numerous, but as Nelson Mandela puts it: "There is no...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 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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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
bankruptcy laws) to creditors, and by spreading risk throughout the population (via deposit insurance and even the use of government-issued money). He discusses how the rise of big business provoked reforms that, by the early 20th...
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Nancy O. Perry