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Harnessing the Mobile Revolution to Meet High Customer Expectations
The mobile revolution has transformed the way we interact, the way we shop, and the way we do business. Access to the internet is fast-becoming a fundamental human right. Traditional sales channels ...
How Great Leaders Lead
As we build on the principles presented in this series on servant leadership, we get to a core idea that raises an obvious question. The core principle: Servant leaders provide leadership. The ...
ACORD’s Hartnett Discusses the Future of Industry Standards, Disruption and the Internet of Things
In a recent, wide-ranging conversation with Wells Media Group's Andy Simpson, Bill Hartnett, ACORD's first innovation chief, talked about innovation culture and the power of failure, lessons he ...
How Much Insurance Does an Insurer Need? Data Analytics Transforming Carrier ERM
Big data and analytics are driving a transformation in insurance purchasing decisions, and insurance company chief risk officers are among those being impacted by the wave of change. Carriers are ...
A Conversation on Innovation and the Industry’s Future With ACORD’s Hartnett
There are not many insurance executives who will quote inventor Thomas Edison, Microsoft's Steve Baumer, futurist Alvin Toffler, Moore's Law, and philosophers Aristotle and Plato. There are also not ...
ACORD’s First Innovation Chief Talks About the Importance of Culture
There are not many people in the insurance business who can flash business cards with the title "head of innovation." Bill Hartnett, a former executive in the insurance division at Microsoft, was ...
The New Venture Capitalists: Insurance Companies
Property and casualty insurers are rich as Croesus, awash in capital and having a tough time figuring out where to put it. They can certainly invest (and largely do) in the equity and bond markets, ...
The C-Level Actuary
Actuaries have always been involved in the management of risk, and more and more we are seeing actuaries take on roles that may be considered outside of the realm of "traditional" actuarial work, ...