Leadership & Strategy
Berkshire Hathaway Promotes Likely Buffett Successors Abel and Jain
Berkshire Hathaway Inc on Wednesday promoted two of its top executives, Gregory Abel and Ajit Jain, adding them to its board and cementing their status as the most likely successors to Warren Buffett ...
Become a Carrier of Choice for Agents: Five Reasons to Join ID Federation
It's the bane of the modern-day insurance office: keeping track of the many passwords required to log into a myriad of systems and websites. Whenever I talk to anyone in our industry about real-time ...
AmTrust CEO Zyskind, Stone Point Capital Propose Taking Insurer Private
A bid is afoot to take AmTrust Financial Services private. Stone Point Capital Partners, along with AmTrust Chairman and CEO Barry Zyskind and Director George Karfunkel (and his wife, Leah ...
Parametric Insurance Can Help Close Global Insurance Protection Gap: Clyde & Co.
Parametric insurance can play a significant role in closing the insurance protection gap – a problem that plagues economies in both the developing and developed world, according to a report ...
Beyond Future Leaders, Other Employees Are Worth Retention Program Efforts
As insurers and other companies explore ways to keep and nurture valuable employees, they may want to focus their energies on more than just the future leaders. Executives Career Systems ...
Remorseful Toyota CEO? Most People Don’t Think Leader Apologies Are Sincere
Do we believe apologies by people who have committed a transgression? It depends on their power status, according to a university study. The new international study including the University of Haifa ...
Getting Teams to Work (When No One Wants To)
We love teams, but wherever we look, we see a sad truth: Most teams underperform. A large part of the reason relates to passion—often teams have members who simply have no interest in being there. ...
Jeff Greenberg Helps Back the Launch of Bermuda Reinsurer Armour Group Ltd.
Armour, a Bermuda-based P/C runoff insurance business, announced it has raised up to $500 million to form a reinsurance group called Armour Group Ltd. The equity commitments were made in partnership ...