Leadership & Strategy
Celebrating Great People
My 91-year-old father had been a lonely man since he stopped working just a decade ago. Regularly, he'd ask me to contact friends from his youth or colleagues he'd worked with during the 1950s and ...
Travelers Adds Chief Sustainability Officer to Executive Ranks
The Travelers Companies Inc. has added a chief sustainability officer to its executive roster, a first for the property/casualty insurer. Yafit Cohn is tasked with leading Travelers' environmental, ...
QBE Hires Ex-Willis Towers Watson Exec Jones to Lead Its North American Operations
QBE has hired a former Willis Towers Watson executive as the new leader for its North American operations. Todd Jones will be taking over as QBE North America CEO on Oct. 1, 2019, after having most ...
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Boosts Amazon Investment Stake
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Wednesday said it boosted its stake in Amazon.com Inc by 11% during the second quarter, increasing its bet on the powerful online retailer even as stocks ...
2018 Reserves Year in Review: Can Workers Comp Continue to Drive the Gravy Train of Releases?
2018 marked the 13th consecutive year in which the industry saw favorable prior-year reserve development bolstering calendar-year underwriting margins. Total releases for last year came in at over ...
The Latest Launches From Sompo International and BHSI
Sompo International in Asia plans to use an InsurTech startup's on-demand cloud platform to bring on-demand insurance to Asia. Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance says it updated its Asia ...
An Engaged Manager Can Recharge Uninspired Employees
Managers deal with this everywhere: unengaged employees. Becoming more involved in their teams' day-to-day activities can help reverse this. According to The Center for Creative Leadership, greater ...
Carriers and InsurTechs Go Together Like Peanut Butter and Chocolate
If you had visited the Berlin Industrial Exposition of 1879, you would have been transfixed by a new kind of train that seemed to move by invisible means. It was powered not by steam but by ...