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Another ‘Team Project’? Snap Judgments, Leader Expectations Impact Results
Hearing the words "team project" can spark fear in the hearts of business professionals. Does this initial negative perception mean that the project is doomed from the start? Dustin Sleesman, ...
Flying Cars Have Small Niche Role in Sustainable Mobility: Research
In the 1960s animated sitcom The Jetsons, George Jetson commutes to work in his family-size flying car, which miraculously transforms into a briefcase at the end of the trip. A new study of the ...
Building a Specialty Carrier: Does Culture Beat Strategy, or Is Culture Strategy?
After getting the go-ahead to build a new insurance company, BHSI's founding executive team—Peter Eastwood, president and CEO; David Bresnahan, executive vice president; David Fields, executive ...
The Future of Insurance Has Brokers at Its Heart
When many of my peers and I entered the industry, several days or weeks could pass between the initial inquiry by a potential policyholder and the time a transaction took place. Applications were ...
Can InsurTechs Follow Uber’s Path? There May Be Pitfalls
Uber Technologies Inc. announced its first quarterly results as a public company with an operating loss of over $5 billion in the quarter. The company is emblematic of the growth-at-all-costs model ...
How AI Advances ‘No-Touch’ Resolution of Workers Compensation Claims: Opinion
Many human hours are needed to sort, analyze and process workers compensation claims—the vast majority of which are low in value. The U.S. workers comp insurance market is forecast to earn revenues ...
Conducting Insurance Business at the Speed of Now
Rapidly changing situations and opportunities often outpace the speed and capability of communication in today's insurance industry. Creating the ability to connect firms, brokers and underwriters ...
Executive View: Why Insurers Need to Partner With Customers, Tech Startups
As smart carriers continue to leverage cognitive and digital computing technologies to better understand, mitigate and absorb customers' property and casualty risks, the insurance industry is primed ...