Leadership & Strategy
As Sharing-Economy Cos. Go Mainstream, Cities, Insurers Grapple With New Issues
A few years ago, renting out a spare room via the lodging website Airbnb bordered on daring. Now, in thousands of cities around the world, it seems almost conventional. But as the founders of the ...
President Obama Speech on Climate Policy Expected Tuesday
President Barack Obama is likely to roll out a number of measures on climate policy, potentially including a strategy to limit greenhouse gas emissions from existing power plants, in a speech on ...
Not Just Lip Service: Swiss Re Halts 23 Deals Violating Environmental Principles
Swiss Re released a report to measure its compliance with sustainability principles that it helped to create, revealing in the report that the reinsurer declined to enter into 23 business ...
Analysts: Travelers/Dominion Deal Makes Sense, More U.S.-Canadian M&A May Follow
The Travelers Companies' decision to acquire Dominion of Canada General Insurance, a unit of E-L Financial Corp., for $1.1 billion makes strategic sense, according to analysts. The acquisition now ...
It’s Not About AIG, Says Berkshire’s Peter Eastwood
When a veteran of CNA joined Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance to lead the new venture's professional liability division last week, the news did not receive the press that the followed the first ...Russia Sets Back UN Global Warming Talks 6 Months
The United Nations global warming talks have been set back by six months after Russia and its allies blocked progress at a group charged with implementing decisions of the 190 nations involved in the ...
‘Great Rotation’ From Bonds Into Equities May Have Begun
Just as a month-long stock market rout seems to have further trashed the concept of a "Great Rotation" from bonds into equities, evidence is emerging that institutional investors may have already ...
Fallen Brand Leaders Hardly Ever Climb Back To The Top: Research Study
Business history is littered with the remains of fallen giants. Yuban coffee, Zenith, Kodak—all these brands were leaders in their time, and then something changed. At some point, they were knocked ...