Howard Mills News
What’s in a Name? The Importance of Reputation Management
"Give a man a reputation as an early riser and he can sleep 'til noon," Mark Twain once said. Reputation is as important today as it was in Twain's day, but perhaps not necessarily as unassailable. ...
Objects In Mirror May Be Closer Than They Appear
I have a CD player in my relatively new luxury sports sedan. It plays five—or maybe six—CDs so I can be surrounded by music I choose and like all through even a reasonably long journey. Or maybe ...
Strategies for Coping With a Tsunami of Regulations
Once upon a time, insurance regulation for U.S. companies was pretty straightforward. But then came 2008. Things changed. The influencers if not the direct regulators of U.S. insurance companies have ...
FIO’s Affordability Study Needs Unified Industry Input: Howard Mills’ View
There are very few sure things in life, but among the closest to a certainty is that every year, on the ubiquitous year-end lists of top risks insurers face in the year to come, regulatory risk will ...
Deloitte’s Howard Mills On Leadership & Governance
"Take me to your leader." Those of us who grew up worshiping cheesy sci-fi movies from the 1950s are undoubtedly familiar with that line. It is what the aliens who land on earth usually say to the ...