Leadership & Strategy
China’s Anbang Insurance Group Draws Multiple Bidders for $200M in Japanese Real Estate
Anbang Insurance Group Co Ltd aims to sell $200 million worth of Japanese real estate to bidders including Blackstone Group LP, about two years after buying them from the U.S. investment firm, two ...
Cautious Carriers Often Pursue Innovation Warily: A.M. Best
Insurers are reluctant pursuers of innovation, cautious about disruption that new technology and systems can cause, even as they see the need for such changes. A new A.M. Best survey found that most ...
Editor’s Letter: Reflections on the Year Without a Summer
It wasn't until mid-July this year that I had ever heard the term "lava bomb" or thought about the prospect of a Category 6 hurricane. But both were in the news around the time I read about another ...
Meet CM’s Guest Editor: Karen Morris
For the Sept/Oct edition of Carrier Management, we welcome Karen Morris as a guest editor of our features about Future Trends and Emerging Risks. Morris is a strategic adviser specializing in all ...
Give Your Employees Compassion, and Their Best Work Will Come
Want the best results out of your employees? Then be nice to them. New research from Binghamton University, State University at New York finds that showing compassion to employees almost always pays ...
Compassion and Insurance
A recent visit to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum brought home forcefully that we live in dangerous times—times that demand new ways of being and doing. Sober, quiet, discomforted by more than ...
The Latest Launches From Nationwide, Starr Insurance and Hippo
Nationwide will debut an online insurance platform targeted toward businesses with fewer than five employees. Starr Insurance Companies said it is launching a construction-related insurance policy ...
As Work Plods Along, Motivational Tactics Can Still Produce Results
Sometimes work in the office can be less than ideal or interesting, even if it remains important. A recent posting on the Leadership Freak blog acknowledged that this circumstance can create a bad ...