Magazine: MARCH 2009
Cover Story
The concept of competition has not disappeared, but the newest generation of workers—the millennials—is sparking a new spirit of collaboration throughout the enterprise and sometimes beyond. Users may...
Columns
Inside Track
A severe storm flung Dorothy and her dog, Toto, into a strange and unfamiliar world. Glinda, the good witch of the North, told Dorothy the wonderful Wizard of Oz could get her back home. Glinda advise...
Trends & Tech
I first started noticing the little “green” appends to e-mail signatures about two years ago. You’ve all seen them: “Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.” I found them amusing ...
Stats Watch
Crisis is always the time for innovation, according to Matt Josefowicz, director of insurance for Novarica and co-author (with Steven Kaye) of the research firm’s report on innovation and agility in i...
Departments
Industry Intelligence
AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company launched its new online beneficiary resource center, which offers the forms, tools, and guidance for beneficiaries and financial professionals to file a life insur...
Progressive Insurance has begun a new online program for personal auto customers that allows customers to name the price of their policy. Name Your Price empowers shoppers to name their price for car ...
Business Solutions
In July of 2006, The Woodlands Financial Group (TWFG) encountered a liquidation order from the Texas Department of Insurance that would put one of TWFG’s business partners (Texas Select) into receiver...
Top Tech
When Mark Franklin “Frank” Jackson first entered the healthcare insurance industry as an IT consultant in the early 1990s, he quickly recognized the enormous potential technology had in helping busine...
News
My career in publishing began at a national consumer magazine for executive women, when the MBA rode high in corporate America. I remember articles we published about the tension between the...