Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 20, 2016

As Harvard sociologist Robert Putnam has written, you need to have a balance of both “bonding capital” and “bridging capital” — i.e., relationships based respectively on your commonalities (bonding) and relationships built across differences (bridging).

Industry 8

Industry Venture Capitalist Bond Groupthink 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

While the in-person DPPs were largely successful in reducing disease risk and incidence, Duffy and James recognized that there was substantial opportunity to better scale the DPP and make it more accessible and personalized by using technology. Design the service for the patient.

Health Care 11

Health Care Participative Wireless Pharmaceuticals 11

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

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. They can put more of their assets to work because they don’t need to self-insure. Which in turn means they actually can run bigger farms, pay bigger insurance premiums.

Insurance 8

Insurance Bond Hedge Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2014

This diversity reflects not only a deepening understanding of the connection between growth and customer satisfaction, but a much greater awareness of what marketing can do to help forge that bond. Digital has removed barriers across sectors, even in old-line businesses known for “sticky” products, such as telecom and insurance.

P&L 9

P&L Banking Marketing Call Center 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2012

Social-media technologies offer plenty of ways for your company to gain valuable insights about your customers and industry — see our previous blog post. But social technologies open new channels that permit snooping on an unprecedented scale. Leaks are nothing new; companies have been eavesdropping on each other forever.

Company 8

Company Media Travel Tools 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As the use of these expensive drugs grows, there seems to be no way traditional insurance models will be able to pay for them without breaking the bank or requiring patients to assume a big chunk of the cost. consumer switches health plans every two or three years, due to job changes or their employer switching insurance plans.

Business Model 9

Business Model Insurance Cost Bond 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Take Dell Technologies, for example. Think of strategy as a portfolio of options, not bonds. The traditional plan-then-do model treats the value of any strategy like a bond. Unfortunately, usage turned out to be far lower than expected, order sizes much smaller, and capital costs far higher.

Execution 8

Execution Strategy Contingency Plans Company 8

Women on Business

JANUARY 11, 2011

This newfound optimism could be the usual bright-eyed resolve that comes with a new year, but it more likely resulted from something else: the passing of The Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 (“the tax bill”) in December. Extends unemployment insurance coverage through 2011.

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Press Release Discount Insurance PR 178

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

The technology-stock bubble of the late 1990s and its subsequent deflation were among the defining events of Greenspan’s tenure. I mean for example we’re doing higher capital [requirements], but we’re also delving into CoCo* bonds and in principle they can fully defuse anything. They are not. Bubbles and forecasting.

Long-term 10

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

To wit, 45% of financial intermediaries , such as payment networks, stock exchanges, and money transfer services, suffer from economic crime every year; the number is 37% for the entire economy, and only 20% and 27% for the professional services and technology sectors, respectively. How technology is transforming transactions.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8