Leadership & Strategy
Find Ways to Innovate Where You Live
Not looking a gift horse in the mouth is generally accepted as a good idea, but it's not always easy to recognize the gift horse. With that famously accurate hindsight, it's easy to see that Grinnell ...
Post-Audit, AmTrust Names Strategy/M&A Exec Karkowsky as New CFO
AmTrust named one of its executives focused on M&A as its new chief financial officer, capping a busy spring for the specialty property/casualty insurer involving a multi-year audit and efforts ...
Guidewire’s Q3 Net Losses Spiked, But Revenue Soars as Acquisitions Absorbed
Guidewire Software Inc. grew revenue and concluded a major acquisition in its 2017 fiscal third quarter, but losses spiked. The California-based insurance software operation booked more than $1.8 ...
New Consumer Tech Drives Opportunities for Novel Personal Insurance Products: Conning
Innovation often opens the door to new products that would never have been possible. Conning asserts in a new report that this is happening with personal lines insurance, thanks to consumers' ...
Today’s Insurance Talent Model and the Power of Diverse Thought
Tomorrow's innovative business solutions will be built today, and most successfully by those who can quickly embrace the talent diversity needed to realize them. Innovation, however, isn't possible ...
What Warren Buffett Said About AI
There will be labor force "roadkill" that comes alongside the substantial benefits that society derives from the rising use of artificial intelligence, Berkshire Hathaway's Chairman Warren Buffett ...
Berkshire Hathaway’s Gen Re Helps Launch Innovation/Technology Collaborative in Germany
Berkshire Hathaway's Gen Re is among insurers who recently helped found InsurLab Germany, a collaborative designed to foster new technologies and innovation in the industry. The initiative formally ...
Greenlight Capital Re Brings on Ex-SAC Re CEO Burton as New Leader
Greenlight Capital Re tapped a veteran Bermuda reinsurance executive as its new chief executive officer. Simon Burton is slated to become CEO of the hedge fund/specialist reinsurer as of July 1, 2017 ...