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Ashar Group: Brokers and Co-opetition in the Life Settlement Industry
Braun, Alexander; Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher J.; Xu, JiahuaCase HBS-218109-EFinanceConnecting life insurance policyholders with potential investors (called Life Settlement Providers), Ashar Group plays a pivotal role in the industry. Its current position is however increasingly being challenged by consumer-direct models, led by major providers seeking to shortcut brokers. Ashar faces a strategic dilemma in cooperating --- but also competing --- with these providers. Maintaining a mutually beneficial dynamic with policyholders, ...Starting at €8.20
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Dianrong: Marketplace Lending, Blockchain, and "The New Finance" in China, Teaching Note
Malloy, Christopher J.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Woo, Anthony K.Teaching Note HBS-218117-EFinanceTeaching note for case 218043.Starting at €0.00
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Introduction to Life Settlements
Braun, Alexander; Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher J.; Xu, JiahuaCase HBS-218127-EFinanceLife insurance is an asset owned by the majority of American adults (61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%), and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell their life insurance policy in a secondary market. A life insurance policy is a tradable asset, for many individuals possibly the most valuable o...Starting at €8.20
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Junson Capital: Building an Institutionalized Family Office
Malloy, Christopher J.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Gao, Hao; Lau, DawnCase HBS-219069-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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ClearLife: From Prospect to Platform
Braun, Alexander; Cohen, Lauren H.; Elvedi, Mauro; Xu, JiahuaCase HBS-219119-EEntrepreneurshipClearLife's first product was a trading and analytics platform for participants in the US life settlement market, the secondary market for life insurance. ClearLife played a key role in facilitating transactions and devising a common language for expressing value and risk in this alternative asset class, and soon became the leading service provider in this market. After six years, ClearLife began to search for new business opportunities and ident...Starting at €8.20
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ClearLife: From Prospect to Platform, Teaching Note
Braun, Alexander; Cohen, Lauren H.; Elvedi, Mauro; Xu, JiahuaTeaching Note HBS-220036-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 219119.Starting at €0.00
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fidentiaX: The Tradable Insurance Marketplace on Blockchain, Teaching Note
Braun, Alexander; Cohen, Lauren H.; Xu, JiahuaTeaching Note HBS-220037-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 219116.Starting at €0.00
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Faber-Castell
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-417010-ELeadership and People ManagementBy 2016, Count Anton-Wolfgang von Faber-Castell had led the 255-year-old pencil manufacturer Faber-Castell through waves of technological change. The pocket calculator decimated Faber-Castell's slide rule business in the 1970s, and computer aided design technology undermined the company's manual drafting tools in the 1980s. With each new threat the Count had to decide whether to adapt to new technologies, or maintain focus on the company's core p...Starting at €8.20
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Wake Up Call (B)
Fubini, David G.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-418025-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplement to case 418001.Starting at €5.74
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The Reinvention of Kodak
Raffaelli, Ryan L.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-419012-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €8.20