Leadership
Women with Elite School Degrees Opting Out of Full-Time Careers
Though past studies have found little evidence that women are opting out of the workforce in general, female graduates of elite undergraduate universities are working much fewer hours than their ...
Trying to Fix Broken Economics: Kaletsky
Here is a list of economic questions that have something in common: In a recession, should governments reduce budget deficits or increase them? Do zero percent interest rates stimulate economic ...
End of Men in Power? It’s Not Even Close
It's spring 2013 – 50 years after Betty Friedan's explosive book launched feminism's "second wave," 41 years after Title IX, the equal-opportunity amendment banning sex discrimination in education, ...
Greenberg’s View: Opening Global Markets, Shaping Foreign Relations
During his 60-year career, Maurice "Hank" Greenberg helped build American International Group (AIG) into the world's largest insurer by opening global markets and getting services industries ...
London Still Tops in Top 10 Global Financial Centers
London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore remain the top four financial centers around the globe. That's according to the latest survey conducted by the Financial Center Futures team at the London ...
The Greenberg Interview: Spitzer, AIG, Bailout, Foreign Trade and More
The near-collapse of American International Group (AIG) in 2008 came about because of the scare tactics and political ambition of one man—then New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, according to ...Industry Mourns Passing Of Former White Mountains’ Chair John J. Byrne
On March 9, Bloomberg reported the passing of John "Jack" Byrne, the former chair of White Mountains Insurance Group, who is best known for turning around GEICO from near bankruptcy in the mid-1970s ...
Insurer Ratings Unlikely To Change With New Governance, Mgmt. Criteria: S&P
In mid-November last year, Standard & Poor's announced it was updating its criteria for evaluating management and governance for corporate entities and insurers, but the rating agency does not ...