Leadership & Strategy
Could Smart Computers Really Replace Half of U.S. Jobs?
Who needs an army of lawyers when you have a computer? When Minneapolis attorney William Greene faced the task of combing through 1.3 million electronic documents in a recent case, he turned to a ...
Women in Business Must Take on Adventure
Women in the world of finance must not be scared to look further afield if opportunities at their current employer dry up. It's a key lesson that Sophie Javary learned when she became pregnant early ...
From the Front Lines to the C-Suite: Farmers’ David Travers
When he was taking policyholder phone calls as a customer representative for a direct writing carrier 26 years ago, David Travers did not have designs on a position in the C-suite of an agency ...
Endurance Specialty’s Catherine Kalaydjian: Thriving With Change
Just six months after John Charman took the reins of Endurance Specialty Holdings in May 2013, he announced to the investor community that the management team had been completely restructured. In ...
RLI’s Michael Stone: Managing People Is the Key to COO Role
"If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…" With apologies to Rudyard Kipling, you might finish that sentence with the phrase "you can be the chief operating officer of a ...
RLI Takes LEAD on Succession Planning With Formal Talent Program
Michael Stone, the chief operating officer of specialty insurer RLI Corp., is perfectly clear about the role of leaders in the property/casualty industry. "At the end of the day, it's all about ...
Apollo, CVC Planning IPO of Insurer Brit Group
Brit Insurance Holdings B.V., a Lloyd's of London insurer owned by Apollo Global Management LLC and CVC Capital Partners Ltd., is planning an initial public offering in London next month. A minimum ...
QBE’s Sue Harnett: Leading a Transformation
Operational transformation is a central activity at QBE these days, and leading the change in North America since late 2012 has been Chief Operating Officer Sue Harnett, a 30-year veteran of ...