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      • January 2021
      • Case

      Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex

      By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Amitabh Chandra and Amram Migdal
      The operating executives of Health and Benefits for Onex Partners, Megan Jackson Frye and Sam Camens, faced a challenge: Healthcare costs for employees of Onex’s portfolio companies were continuing to rise above the consumer price index, reflecting broader trends...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Cost Vs Benefits; Decision Choices And Conditions; Decisions; Finance; Behavioral Finance; insurance; Health; Health Care And Treatment; Human Resources; Compensation And Benefits; Markets; Demand And Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Social Psychology; Behavior; Interests; Motivation And Incentives; Perception; Health industry; insurance industry; North America; United States
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      Schwartzstein, Joshua, Amitabh Chandra, and Amram Migdal. "Value-Based Insurance Design at Onex." Harvard Business School Case 921-023, January 2021.
      • January 2021
      • Case

      “GEnron?” Markopolos versus General Electric (A)

      By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
      In August 2019, Harry Markopolos—the forensic accountant known for uncovering Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme—alleged that General Electric had committed accounting fraud totaling $38 billion, coining the term “GEnron” for perceived similarities with the 2001 accounting...  View Details
      Keywords: Financial Statements; Communication; Energy; Financial Condition; insurance; Performance; Planning; Business And Shareholder Relations; Risk And Uncertainty; Value; insurance industry; Financial Services industry; Energy industry
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      Heese, Jonas, and David Lane. "“GEnron?” Markopolos versus General Electric (A)." Harvard Business School Case 121-005, January 2021.
      • December 2020
      • Supplement

      Tokio Marine Group (B)

      By: David J. Collis and Akiko Kanno
      Updates the Tokio Marine A case by providing information on the organisation structure adopted by the Japanese insurance firm as it moved to integrate its global operations, along with changes in HR policies that sought to balance traditional Japanese practices with...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Organisational Design; Organization Structure; Culture; Global Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Culture; insurance industry; Japan
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      Collis, David J., and Akiko Kanno. "Tokio Marine Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-418, December 2020.
      • December 2020
      • Case

      Tokio Marine Group (A)

      By: David J. Collis and Akiko Kanno
      Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses around the world. As the company becomes majority non-domestic it has to make a choice of what organisation structure to adopt to...  View Details
      Keywords: Global Strategy; Organisational Design; Culture; Values; Global Strategy; Organizational Structure; Culture; Values And Beliefs; insurance industry; Japan
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      Collis, David J., and Akiko Kanno. "Tokio Marine Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 721-417, December 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Teaching Note

      DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome

      By: Ayelet Israeli
      Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 519-010. DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations to its users in order to minimize blood sugar spikes after meals....  View Details
      Keywords: Start-up Growth; Startup; Positioning; Targeting; Go To Market Strategy; B2b Vs. B2c; B2b2c; Health & Wellness; Ai; Machine Learning; Female Ceo; Female Protagonist; Science-based; Science And Technology Studies; Ecommerce; Applications; Dtc; Direct To Consumer Marketing; Us Health Care; "usa,"; Innovation; Pricing; Business Growth; Segmentation; Distribution Channels; Growth And Development Strategy; Business Startups; Science-based Business; Health; Innovation And Invention; Marketing; Technology; Business Growth And Maturation; Health industry; Technology industry; insurance industry; Information Technology industry; Food And Beverage industry; Israel; United States
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      Israeli, Ayelet. "DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 521-052, November 2020.
      • November 2020
      • Case

      Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care

      By: Trevor Fetter and Kira Seiger
      This case describes the increasing investment by private equity (PE) firms in patient care and other healthcare services. The case focuses on investments in physician staffing firms and roll-up strategy investments in physician practice management (PPM). Included in...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Acquisition; Mergers And Acquisitions; Business Model; Change; Disruption; Fluctuation; Trends; Customers; Customer Value And Value Chain; Ethics; Fairness; Finance; Equity; insurance; Private Equity; Geography; Geographic Scope; Health; Health Care And Treatment; Markets; Demand And Consumers; Supply And industry; industry Structures; Ownership; Ownership Type; Private Ownership; Relationships; Agency Theory; Business And Community Relations; Business And Shareholder Relations; Business And Stakeholder Relations; Networks; Strategy; Competition; Consolidation; Expansion; Integration; Horizontal Integration; Vertical Integration; Value; Value Creation; Health industry; insurance industry; United States
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      Fetter, Trevor, and Kira Seiger. "Roll-Ups and Surprise Billing: Collisions at the Intersection of Private Equity and Patient Care." Harvard Business School Case 321-049, November 2020.
      • August 2020
      • Supplement

      Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (B)

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Alpana Thapar
      Keywords: Accounting; insurance industry; Middle East
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      Narayanan, V.G., and Alpana Thapar. "Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 121-023, August 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty—Evidence from Variable Annuities

      By: Mark Egan, Shan Ge and Johnny Tang
      We examine the drivers of variable annuity sales and the impact of a proposed regulatory change. Variable annuities are popular retirement products with over $2 trillion in assets in the United States. Insurers typically pay brokers a commission for selling variable...  View Details
      Keywords: Variable Annuity; Brokers; Fiduciary Duty; Finance; Investment; insurance; Conflict Of Interests; Financial Services industry; insurance industry; United States
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      Egan, Mark, Shan Ge, and Johnny Tang. "Conflicting Interests and the Effect of Fiduciary Duty—Evidence from Variable Annuities." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-018, August 2020. (Revise and Resubmit at the Review of Financial Studies. Revised August 2020. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 27577, July 2020)
      • June 2020 (Revised October 2020)
      • Case

      Muddy Waters vs. eHealth: The Debate of a 'Lifetime'

      By: Jonas Heese and Cristo Liautaud
      In May 2020, an analyst was assessing eHealth’s performance. eHealth was an online / tele-sales broker of health insurance products. The stock had recently hit all-time highs, closing at a peak of $146 on March 4, 2020. But now, May 4, 2020, eHealth traded at $103. The...  View Details
      Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Health; insurance; Online Technology; insurance industry
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      Heese, Jonas, and Cristo Liautaud. "Muddy Waters vs. eHealth: The Debate of a 'Lifetime'." Harvard Business School Case 120-114, June 2020. (Revised October 2020.)
      • May 2020
      • Case

      Trust Merchant Bank

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha and Salim Dewji
      Trust Merchant Bank (TMB), a leading bank in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), needs to decide whether to enter the soon-to-be-liberalized insurance industry. Since its founding in 2004, TMB has played a pivotal role in reshaping the DRC banking landscape by...  View Details
      Keywords: Retail Banking; Financial Services; Financial Inclusion; Turnaround; Fintech; Banks And Banking; Financial Condition; insurance; Corporate Strategy; Expansion; Business Model; Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Technology; Monopoly; Banking industry; insurance industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic Of The
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Pippa Tubman Armerding, Dilyana Karadzhova Botha, and Salim Dewji. "Trust Merchant Bank." Harvard Business School Case 720-449, May 2020.
      • April 2020
      • Case

      Luvo (B)

      By: José B. Alvarez and Natalie Kindred
      This case, a follow on to HBS No. 517-049 "Luvo," provides a brief look at changes that have occurred at Luvo, now called Performance Kitchen, since the timing of the first case (mid-2016). Set in January 2020, “Luvo (B)” touches on developments such as the company's...  View Details
      Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Health; Health Care And Treatment; Nutrition; Food; Strategy; Product Positioning; Product Marketing; Food And Beverage industry; Agriculture And Agribusiness industry; Consumer Products industry; Retail industry; United States; Canada
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      Alvarez, José B., and Natalie Kindred. "Luvo (B)." Harvard Business School Case 520-101, April 2020.
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      What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?

      By: Robert S. Huckman
      The pandemic crisis is almost certain to change many American industries. It would be a shame if health care is not one of them. A number of major practices have been altered to help the country cope with the extraordinary demands that the pandemic has imposed on the...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Pandemics; Health Care And Treatment; Change; Health industry; United States
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      Huckman, Robert S. "What Will U.S. Health Care Look Like After the Pandemic?" Harvard Business Review (website) (April 7, 2020).
      • February 2020 (Revised June 2020)
      • Case

      From Cradle to Heaven: Taikang Insurance Group

      By: William C. Kirby, Shu Lin, John P. McHugh and Yuanzhuo Wang
      Taikang Insurance Group was a leading Chinese insurance and financial services institution. It operated in the insurance, asset management, and health and senior care industries. Due to China’s underdeveloped social welfare state, Taikang saw an opportunity for the...  View Details
      Keywords: Health; insurance; Strategy; insurance industry; China
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      Kirby, William C., Shu Lin, John P. McHugh, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "From Cradle to Heaven: Taikang Insurance Group." Harvard Business School Case 320-088, February 2020. (Revised June 2020.)
      • January 2, 2020
      • Article

      Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions

      By: Nancy Dean Beaulieu, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye and J. Michael McWilliams
      Background: The hospital industry has consolidated substantially during the past two decades and at an accelerated pace since 2010. Multiple studies have shown that hospital mergers have led to higher prices for commercially insured patients, but research about effects...  View Details
      Keywords: Hospitals; Mergers And Acquisitions; Health Care And Treatment; Quality
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      Beaulieu, Nancy Dean, Leemore S. Dafny, B. E. Landon, Jesse Dalton, Ifedayo Kuye, and J. Michael McWilliams. "Changes in Quality of Care After Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions." New England Journal of Medicine 382, no. 1 (January 2, 2020): 51–59.
      • November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
      • Case

      Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019

      By: Michael E. Porter, Jens Deerberg-Wittram and Thomas W. Feeley
      Since its establishment in 2005, Hamburg’s Martini Klinik had single mindedly focused on prostate cancer care with a commitment to measure long-term health outcomes for every patient. A wholly owned subsidiary of the University Hospital Hamburg, Martini Klinik was a...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care; Michael Porter; Jens Deerberg-wittram; Clifford Marks; Prostate Cancer; Health Care Policy; Value Agenda; Integrated Practice Units; Outcomes Measurement; Health Care And Treatment; Value; Health Disorders; insurance; Medical Specialties; Outcome Or Result; Measurement And Metrics; Business Processes; insurance industry; Health industry; Germany
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      Porter, Michael E., Jens Deerberg-Wittram, and Thomas W. Feeley. "Martini Klinik: Prostate Cancer Care 2019." Harvard Business School Case 720-359, November 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
      • October 2019
      • Case

      Engaging the Nationwide Workforce

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jessica Gover and Sarah Mehta
      Nationwide is “on your side,” but did employees feel that way? CAO Gale King and CEO Steve Rasmussen, starting in 2008, invested heavily in a human capital strategy centered around “engagement” at the Ohio-based Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company. Set in 2014, this...  View Details
      Keywords: Talent And Talent Management; Change; Change Management; Transformation; insurance; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Selection And Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Leadership; Leadership Development; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Social Psychology; Financial Services industry; insurance industry; United States; Ohio
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      Bernstein, Ethan S., Jessica Gover, and Sarah Mehta. "Engaging the Nationwide Workforce." Harvard Business School Case 420-036, October 2019.
      • October 2019 (Revised August 2020)
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      Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (A)

      By: V.G. Narayanan and Alpana Thapar
      This case describes how Ambareen Musa, Founder and CEO of Souqalmal, a Dubai-based online comparison aggregator of banking and insurance products launched her business in 2011 and rapidly grew it over next couple of years. However, by 2017, the Mauritian entrepreneur...  View Details
      Keywords: Unit Economics; Finance; Accounting; Competitive Strategy; Financial Statements; insurance industry; Middle East
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      Narayanan, V.G., and Alpana Thapar. "Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (A)." Harvard Business School Case 120-028, October 2019. (Revised August 2020.)
      • August 2019
      • Case

      The Allstate Corporation, 2019

      By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
      In July 2019, Allstate, the United States’ number-three property and casualty (P/C) insurer, released its second-quarter earnings, which reported first-half revenues of $22.1 billion, up 11.4% year-over-year. Shareholders cheered the top-line growth, but P/C premiums...  View Details
      Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; insurance; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; insurance industry; North America
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      Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "The Allstate Corporation, 2019." Harvard Business School Case 720-366, August 2019.
      • August 2019
      • Case

      Lemonade: Disrupting Insurance with Instant Everything, Killer Prices, and a Big Heart

      By: Elie Ofek and Danielle Golan
      Launching its first products in the fall of 2016 in New York, insurtech startup Lemonade was on a mission to disrupt the insurance market by using AI and behavioral economics principles. The company offered renters, homeowners, and condo insurance and mainly targeted...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; insurance; Technological Innovation; Business Model; Disruption; Brands And Branding; Growth And Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Decision Making; insurance industry; Technology industry
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      Ofek, Elie, and Danielle Golan. "Lemonade: Disrupting Insurance with Instant Everything, Killer Prices, and a Big Heart." Harvard Business School Case 520-020, August 2019.
      • July 2019 (Revised March 2020)
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      At-Bay Cyber Insurance

      By: Marco Di Maggio and David Lane
      At-Bay was a cyber insurance startup that offered companies coverage against a wide array of cyber risks—exposure to which the firm was able to quickly assess and price on the basis of technical expertise that traditional insurance carriers lacked. In mid-2019, At-Bay...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; insurance; Disruptive Innovation; Risk Management; Product Marketing; Distribution Channels; Information Technology; Salesforce Management; insurance industry
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      Di Maggio, Marco, and David Lane. "At-Bay Cyber Insurance." Harvard Business School Case 220-005, July 2019. (Revised March 2020.)
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