Innovation
USAA’s Goal: Make Innovation Part of Its Cultural Fabric
Wal-Mart gave Jon-Michael Kowall some of his earliest lessons in innovation. The USAA executive was in his early 20s, a Wal-Mart manager-in-training in metro Austin and Corpus Christi, when new ...
Nationwide, Markel, Munich Re Help Back Next Insurance’s $29M Funding Round
Digital Insurance startup Next Insurance nailed down $29 million in Series A funding, with an investor roster that underscores how many old-school carriers are hedging their bets on technology-fueled ...
Q1 InsurTech Venture Funding Plunged, as Companies Advanced to Product Stage
InsurTech venture funding plunged 64 percent in the 2017 first quarter compared to the previous year, but the reason for the drop may actually be quite positive, according to a new Willis Towers ...
Tech Making Insurance Obsolete, Exec Says; Risk Transfer No Longer a Large Nos. Game
"Will technology make insurance obsolete?" That was the stark question posed by William Hartnett, a former Microsoft and ACORD executive, in his opening address to the 2017 Global Insurance ...
InsurTech Developer OmniEarth Acquired by EagleView
OmniEarth, a developer of learning technologies and decision-making tools for insurance and other industries, has been acquired. The buyer: EagleView, a provider of aerial imagery and data analytics ...
InsurTech Hippo Debuts With Promise of Bound Homeowners Policy in 3 Minutes
An InsurTech company launched in California today with the promise of providing online homeowners insurance quotes in 60 seconds in what the Mountain View, Calif.-based company is calling "the most ...
Swiss Re Economists Win International Awards for Research on Catastrophe Protection Gap
Thomas Holzheu and Ginger Turner of Swiss Re have received Shin Research Excellence Awards for their paper on "The Natural Catastrophe Protection Gap." The awards are given by the Geneva Association ...
Lacking Charisma? You Can Still Be a Good Boss
You don't need the charisma of Steve Jobs to be an effective boss, indicates new research led by Michigan State University business scholars. In a series of five studies, the researchers found bosses ...