Sloan Working Papers: Recent submissions

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    • Information and Transformation at Swiss Re: Maximizing Economic Value 

      Beath, Cynthia M.; Ross, Jeanne W. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007-12-01)
      In 2007 Swiss Re was striving to maximize economic value, a metric that would allow the company to assess its performance over time despite the volatility of the reinsurance industry. Maximizing economic value required ...

    • Agility and Risk Management at Pacific Life: Optimizing Business Unit Autonomy 

      Ross, Jeanne W.; Beath, Cynthia M. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007-12-01)
      Pacific Life is a diversified financial services company with a history of autonomous business units. Pacific Life had five independent divisions, including Life Insurance, Annuities and Mutual Funds, and Investments. These ...

    • Users as Service Innovators: The Case of Banking Services 

      Oliveira, Pedro; von Hippel, Eric A. (Cambridge, MA; Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009-08)
      Many services can be self-provided. An individual user or a user firm can, for example, choose to do its own accounting – choose to self-provide that service - instead of hiring an accounting firm to provide it. Since ...