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Harvard Business Review
AUGUST 28, 2017
It might seem, then, that private insurance can be of little help in addressing climate change. There’s concern that for-profit insurers won’t want to insure risky properties, and that individuals won’t have the wherewithal to buy insurance plans in the first place. Dating back to at least F.
Harvard Business Review
JANUARY 11, 2016
Investors from hedge funds to insurance companies are operating in an environment of low yields, near-zero interest rates, and a glut of savings. In traditional financing models, it’s just not possible for investors to see their way to a financial return based on some abstract added value of the integrated whole. Insight Center.
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Strategy Driven
MARCH 6, 2014
His prosecution of the Life & Fire Insurance Company, whose owners Jacob Barker, et al perpetuated a fraud that led to the Panic of 1826, resulted in a hung jury. Why was an insurance company doing a bank’s work? After six months, the borrower would repay the insurance company’s IOU of $1000.
Harvard Business Review
MARCH 1, 2017
But the solution to this innovation logjam has emerged: blockchain. Given the promise and peril of such a disruptive technology, many firms in the financial industry, from banks and insurers to audit and professional service firms, are investing in blockchain solutions. Distributed Database. Insight Center. Sponsored by Accenture.
Harvard Business Review
MAY 15, 2013
The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. This is in direct contrast to "financial innovation" that focuses on only one dimension of performance, putting the others at risk.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., ” Health care. Making PbR Work.
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Or you could participate in projects financed in part by conventional investors and in part by non-profits. Take micro insurance: If I allow a small-hold farmer to insure their crop, it means in the first year they can actually have less volatility around the outcome. So the harvest will be bigger, they become wealthier.
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