Content from Mark Hollmer
U.S. Small Commercial Insurance Sector Ripe for Competition: McKinsey
U.S. property/casualty insurers salivating for a market growth opportunity appear to have a clear target in sight: the small commercial sector. It turns out that small commercial has enjoyed steady ...
Leadership Lesson From NAMIC’s Chamness: Inform Stakeholders Early and Often
Every executive who successfully seals a deal, launches a product or tests an innovative idea, also makes mistakes at some time during his or her career. Here, Charles Chamness, President and CEO of ...
Leadership Lesson From QBE’s Becker: Don’t Sell Beyond Your Natural Brand
Every executive who successfully seals a deal, launches a product or tests an innovative idea also makes mistakes at some time during his or her career. Here, Marty Becker, Chairman of the Board at ...
Leadership Lessons Learned: Nationwide’s Miller on the Importance of Ambiguity
Every executive who successfully seals a deal, launches a product or tests an innovative idea also makes mistakes at some time during his or her career. Here, Michael Miller, President of Nationwide ...
For Great Leaders, Failure Matters as Much as Success
Failure is as much a part of life as success, and so it is the case with chief executives and other leaders. Every executive that successfully seals a deal, launches a product or tests an innovative ...
The Hartford CEO Swift: M&A One of Many Possible Growth Options
The Hartford Chairman and CEO Christopher Swift said that M&A is one of many possible options for the property/casualty insurer as it looks at ways to accelerate growth in the months ahead. "We ...
Zurich’s General Insurance Revamp May Affect 8,000 Positions
Last December, Zurich Insurance Group AG announced expanded plans to cut relocate or change at least 1,800 jobs in a bid to save money and revamp its struggling general insurance unit. Now, the ...
W.R. Berkley CEO: M&A Fallout Creates Window to Lure Promising Talent
Property/casualty mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations in recent months are creating opportunities to snatch up promising employees and make market inroads, W.R. Berkley Corp.'s CEO said. ...

