Boardroom Agenda
CEO Personally Liable for $148M in Unfair Buyout: Delaware Judge
The billionaire chief executive of Dole Food Co. and his top lieutenant must pay $148.2 million of damages to shareholders they shortchanged when the produce company went private in 2013, a Delaware ...
Women Rise in Manager Ranks; Black Managers Fall in Number: EEOC
Women's representation in U.S. management ranks is slowly increasing, while the share of African-American managers has slipped since the last recession, according to a report released last week by ...
Investors In the Dark About Worsening Corporate Cyber Crime Risks
Investors are being poorly served by a haphazard approach from fund managers to the growing threat of cyber crime damaging the companies in which they invest, with a lack of clarity from the ...
Good to Great Leaders
When Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wrote a New York Times Op-Ed titled "America Deserves a Servant Leader" in August, he described a leadership style that is growing in popularity among some of the ...
S&P: Reinsurance M&A Will Follow Berkshire Hathaway Model
Reinsurance M&A activity should continue well into 2016 as competitive pressures continue unabated, Standard & Poor's asserted in a new industry report. The ratings entity said that the ...
Investors Doubt Zurich’s Tentative $8.8B Offer for RSA Will Happen
Zurich Insurance Group AG's announcement that it's considering a 5.6 billion-pound ($8.8 billion) offer for RSA Insurance Group Plc is leaving investors in doubt that the takeover will happen at that ...
State Auto’s New CEO Makes Changes and Brings in New Blood
State Auto Financial Corp. is experiencing some of the first major executive and organizational changes since former Fireman's Fund CEO Michael LaRocco formally took over in May. A key element of ...
Executives On The Move at CNA, Munich Re, Liberty Mutual and More
We have some new executive appointments to tell you about at CNA, Munich re, Hallmark Financial Services, Marsh and Liberty Mutual Insurance: *** CNA hired on a Chubb executive as its new senior vice ...