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- 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17
for systemically risky firms that would take a holistic look at the five systems to identify weaknesses, make recommendations to managers and boards, and set regulatory policies, including assessing charges for insuring against losses....
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009
property and casualty insurance business. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209004 The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (A) Harvard Business School...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
717-016 Generali: Paving the Way for CEE Expansion Generali was one of Italy’s largest companies and one of Europe’s largest insurers and had for decades been at the center of the web of cross-shareholding that has characterized the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
health insurance may delay its arrival. Q: How is your idea of a height tax greeted among economists and policymakers? How do you address potential criticisms as mentioned in your paper, such as fears about a slippery slope leading to...
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by Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14
employees and the aspects of the work environment that can exacerbate the issues. It also looks at the costs, both to individuals and to companies, of treating or not treating mental health conditions and outlines the legal framework, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
continuation of the process of globalization. I think this is a safe bet, although one has to be rather nervous right now with the higher costs of trade, the difficulties of moving people around, the difficulties of crossing borders, the higher View Details
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- 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17
of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid fixed-income assets to maturity, and they rely on deposit insurance and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30
dream to have his own business. The case is a rewritten version of a previous case 899-212, updating the dates and financial data to 2012 timeframe. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813045-PDF-ENG Paul Thomson: Walker Insurance...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
through signature—e.g., at the end of tax returns or insurance policy forms. Yet even when people care about morality and want to be seen as ethical by others, they sometimes transgress when beneficial to their own self-interest, at great...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
remain attractive to doctors, insurance providers, and individual patients? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517065-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 906-408 Brazil Sugar and the WTO: Agricultural Reform in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12
March 2014, Kevin Counihan, CEO of Access Health CT, Connecticut's state health insurance exchange, stops to consider the success it has experienced so far and to think about how to ensure its long-term sustainability. Purchase this case:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12
Universal Health Care Is the Best Solution Authors: Regina E. Herzlinger Publication: In Current Controversies: Health Care, edited by Noel Merino. Farmington Hills, MI: Greenhaven Press, 2010 Abstract The best way to achieve universal health View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3
Bhaskar Chakravorti and Laura WinigHarvard Business School Case 810-079 When Jonathan Bush and his partner, Todd Park, realized that their revolutionary approach to delivering clinical care was being stymied by the inefficiencies in the healthcare system and View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
lower directors’ and officers’ insurance premiums for Canadian firms after the ruling. I then show that the information environment deteriorated for cross-listed firms after the ruling. The results are more pronounced for firms with low...
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
individual and collective experiences to foster innovation rather than about setting direction and mobilizing people to follow. In this chapter, we show what it takes to insure that an organization is willing and able to innovate. We...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28
annual public outcomes report. They also introduce bundled payment contracts with three insurers for orthopedic surgeries and join a multi-hospital study for applying time-driven activity-based costing to identify process improvement and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7
decided to exercise their discretionary power to award five top executives a bonus for 2008, even though they had not met the necessary performance measures under the compensation plan. Proxy advisors RiskMetrics and the British Association of View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/418007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-109 Ashar Group: Brokers and Co-opetition in the Life Settlement Industry Connecting life insurance policyholders with potential investors...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Sep 2016
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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...
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Carmen Nobel
- 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016
Vaccinations Evive Health is a company that manages communication campaigns on behalf of health insurance plans and large employers. Using big data techniques and insights from behavioral economics, Evive deploys targeted and effective...
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Sean Silverthorne