Leadership & Strategy
Insurance Software M&A: Sapiens to Grab StoneRiver for $102M
Sapiens International Corp. has agreed to snatch up StoneRiver Inc. for $102 million in cash – one of the larger recent acquisitions in the insurance software and services space. Plans call for ...
Ex-CFO of Bankrupt Enron Offers D&O Lessons from Accounting’s ‘Gray’ Areas
Andrew Fastow, former chief financial officer of Enron Corp., a now-defunct energy trading company swept up in a massive fraud scandal in the early 2000s, warned a room full of directors and officers ...
Flood Risk Catastrophe Modeler Launches U.S. Office
JBA Risk Management, a provider of flood risk catastrophe modeling information in the UK, Canada and elsewhere, has launched a California-based U.S. office. "We are thrilled to be expanding our ...
Insurance CEOs Worry More About Disrupters Than Execs in Other Industries: PwC
Insurance CEOs are more concerned than leaders in other industries about combined disruptive threats to their revenue growth prospects, according to findings from the 20th annual "PwC Global CEO ...
How to Sell Your Next Innovation
Big ideas can be hard to sell, as people are hardwired to protect the status quo, says a recent Kellogg Insight. Loran Nordgren, an associate professor at the Kellogg School, offers tips to help you ...
RSA, Post-Restructuring, Debuts New Global Risk Solutions Arm
RSA has finalized a new Global Risk Solutions (GRS) operating model aimed at giving brokers and customers better access to decision-makers and helping the division itself operate with more focus in ...
Lessons On Value and Innovation
My neighbor has Hank Greenberg inscribed on one of his balls; he is inordinately proud of this. You might say he's a fan. The circumstances under which I discovered my neighbor's asset need not ...
InsurTech Startup Hippo and Elafris Partner on Virtual Agent Chatbot
InsurTech startup Hippo, an online provider of home insurance founded in 2015, and Elafris Inc., the developer of an artificial intelligence messaging platform specifically tailored for the banking ...