The Cyber Insurance Market Needs More Money
Harvard Business
MARCH 10, 2022
Securities could help give insurers the breathing room they need to keep growing — and meet customers’ mounting needs.
Why CEO’s Hire Consultants and Coaches: The REAL Value They Bring with Brad Rex
Consulting Matters
APRIL 13, 2023
Brad had an unconventional start to his career after meeting his boss's boss while studying finance at college. During his twelve-and-a-half-year tenure, he worked in finance and strategic planning before taking over as leader of Epcot theme park on the week of 911, 2001.
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Wealth Management 101: The Hidden World of Private Banking
Tom Spencer
JUNE 30, 2023
The financial services industry comprises firms that operate across a range of sectors: Asset & Wealth Management, Banking & Capital Markets, and Insurance. Products and Services Wealth management firms deliver comprehensive and personalized solutions to meet client’s wealth management needs.
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Self-Employed? Prep for Tax Season to Save Big
Successful Independent Consulting
MARCH 4, 2017
Standard business-owner tax deductions include deducting your home office and a portion of your utilities; parking, tolls, and mileage to and from business meetings; books and subscriptions; office supplies, shipping, and postage; retirement contributions, and probably even health insurance premiums on your personal tax return.
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China Faces "Minsky Moment" on Ponzi Financing
MishTalk
MARCH 21, 2014
Inquiring minds are tuning into a report on the Ponzi finance setup in China. Our analysis indicates that China’s economy has arrived at that unstable state where speculative and Ponzi finance appear to dominate. Most assume China can grow at 7% a year, a notion that I have challenged on many occasions. Morgan Stanley agrees.
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HR Guide to Company Culture: 5 Tangible Leverage Points
LSA Global
APRIL 4, 2024
An HR Guide to Company Culture and Your Organizational DNA When it comes to people and organizational dynamics, the concept of company culture can seem nebulous and less vital when compared company strategies, systems, people, or finances. Do you utilize workplace meetings to reinforce the culture you want to see?
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The Corona Virus for Small Businesses
Consultant Journal
MARCH 5, 2020
It’s a question on the minds of many entrepreneurs, as Fortune 500 companies announce new protocols for travel, meetings and even use of coffee cups. If your business meets with clients in person, you may want to look at your policies and processes to help keep clients and yourself healthy. Client Engagement. Business continuity.
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The Transformative Power of AI in Business
Tom Spencer
JUNE 9, 2023
For example, in industries like finance and accounting, AI-powered systems can process invoices, perform data entry tasks, and generate financial reports with minimal human intervention. Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is becoming widely adopted to automate manual processes, reduce errors, and increase efficiency.
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Frankurt: Europe’s New Fintech Hub?
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 19, 2016
Further, with Fintech taking hold as a revolutionary force in banking and insurance, the large banks here are considering how to transition in a digital world which will change their business operations and market footprint – and that is not limited just to corporate banks, but global powerhouses like the ECB itself.
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Russia Debt One Grade Above Junk With Downgrades Coming, How Likely is Default?
MishTalk
DECEMBER 27, 2014
Anton Siluanov, finance minister, said state-owned VTB, the second-largest lender by assets, could receive Rbs100bn before the end of this year and another Rbs150bn in 2015, while Gazprombank could be allocated Rbs70bn. The central bank said that the state-run Deposit Insurance Agency would provide Trust Bank with up to Rbs99bn.
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Each Firm's Favorite Cases
CaseInterview.com
JUNE 13, 2019
If your interviewer works with insurance companies, there's a good chance you'll get an insurance case. For example, McKinsey Houston I've heard has more Oil & Gas cases than say McKinsey New York City - which has more finance, media, and retail cases. If they work in high-tech, you'll get a high tech one, etc.
Asset Management – Industry Overview (Part 1 of 4)
Tom Spencer
MAY 18, 2019
The asset management industry is a steward of money provided by individuals and institutions, and manages this money in order to meet the unique return objectives of each client. The asset manager can be compensated in a variety of ways including fixed fees, pay for performance, and as a percentage of assets under management (AUM).
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113 Asset Management – Client Segmentation (Part 3 of 4)
Tom Spencer
JUNE 1, 2019
For instance, if a client goes to meet a financial advisor to talk about opening a savings account, the topic of mutual funds can be brought up. In countries with concentrated banking sectors, the banks will have enough scale and cross-selling opportunities to have their own major asset management divisions. Institutional Asset Management.
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Making Microfinance More Effective
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 5, 2016
While meeting this challenge is a clear priority for policy makers and donors, it is also a major profit opportunity for commercial players who can solve market failures and create real value. Insurance is highly valuable to protect against shocks but is difficult to scale. Digital financial services let people help each other.
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Management Consulting versus Investment Banking
Management Consulted
DECEMBER 16, 2008
The cons of investment banking – the long hours, the repetitive and unengaging nature of the work, the lack of non-finance exit opportunities – mattered far more to me than a 6-figure salary. This expertise may be as broad as “operations turnaround” and as specific as “benchmarking for insurance companies.”
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272 Blockchain Entertainment
Tom Spencer
OCTOBER 14, 2017
This starts with insurance but also extends to supply chain management and shipping. However, beyond digitization, which is more an issue of bandwidth and computer-to-computer connections, the film industry and the music industry following close behind it, might have finally found a killer app to meet the demands of the digital age.
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What GE’s Board Could Have Done Differently
Harvard Business
JULY 17, 2018
After studying meetings of various sizes, researchers have concluded that the optimal number of participants is seven or eight — small enough for good discussions, but large enough for a diversity of opinions. The Board Had No Finance Committee. GE’s board had another major structural defect: It lacked a finance committee.
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Hilarious Transcripts of Fed Minutes from 2008 Reveal Completely Clueless Fed
MishTalk
FEBRUARY 21, 2014
Today the Fed released minutes of meetings at the start and during the great financial crisis. Some outside consultants presented to the Fed at that meeting, generally giving an amazingly rosy view of the world as well. All they have to do is pay out, as it is incurred, the interest that the structured-finance product can’t pay out.
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Management Consulted
OCTOBER 3, 2012
Consultants get to travel quite a lot and meet different kinds of people and this makes them diverse and enables them to have insights, which others can only strive for. There I advised only insurance companies’ business models – it is a different type of consulting, yet invariably an enriching learning experience.
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The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 30, 2017
Whereas new technologies, competitors, and business models have made products and services more affordable and accessible in media, finance, retail, and other sectors, U.S. Employers and insurance companies — not end consumers — call the shots on what kind of care they will pay for. This shift is long overdue.
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28 What Health Care Can Learn from the Transformation of Financial Services
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 16, 2016
Before target date funds existed, people had to meet with their financial advisors to change the asset allocation in their financial portfolios as they aged towards retirement. Historically, if you wanted to meet with a broker you had to make an appointment and get to the broker during office hours. Leverage big data.
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MC Coach Interview: My First Year at McKinsey
Management Consulted
MARCH 29, 2015
I majored in accounting, finance and supply chain management at a college in the state (Miami of Ohio). I was going down the route of finance, asset management, investment banking, or something like that. One of the guys does mostly investment banking, and he gave me a tough insurance case. That was rough. That was typical.
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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight
1 to 1
JULY 29, 2022
And inquiries about loyalty rewards were common across nearly all industries — retail, public sector, automotive and manufacturing, travel and tourism, insurance, finance. These insights can help companies better train their customer support teams and ensure they’re equipped with the right information to meet customer needs.
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High-Powered Idiocy from Academic Wonderland; Three Reasons Banks Not Lending; Blinder is Blind
MishTalk
DECEMBER 11, 2013
29-30 policy meeting. There is also a hint that employers are getting an inkling of what Obamacare might mean for labor costs, concern about the cost and availability of insurance bumped up 3 percentage points after a long period of no real change. Only 2% of small businesses complain about financing.
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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
Periodically, a client and accountant would meet, review financial materials and status and, at the end of the encounter, make an appointment for the next meeting. Increasingly, in-person accountant visits have been replaced by phone or web meetings and do-it-yourself software like TurboTax.
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28 FTI Consulting Interviews and Culture
Management Consulted
FEBRUARY 15, 2015
First, consulting services were added for property and casualty insurance claim adjusters and attorneys. FTI Consulting has 5 areas of expertise, but excels in Forensic & Litigation Consulting and Corporate Finance/Restructuring. Corporate Finance/Restructuring. The move raised $11.1M 1997: FTI acquired LWG. Environmental.
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100 Infosys Consulting Interviews & Culture
Management Consulted
NOVEMBER 27, 2016
After flying out to Bangalore to pitch their idea, Pratt and Joshi were surprised to be given a meeting with the whole board of directors and went on to explain that their GDM would allow Infosys to undercut its competitors. Finance and Controlling Processes. Transformation Strategy. Transformation Program Management. HR Processes.
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What to Know Before You Sign a Payment-by-Results Contract
Harvard Business
SEPTEMBER 5, 2016
Cigna is the first insurance company to get pharmaceutical companies to agree to value pricing based on results for certain cholesterol-lowering drugs. And the Health Care Transformation Task Force , a newly formed coalition of private insurers and provider organizations in the U.S., ” Health care.
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28 Conversation with Marakon
Tom Spencer
JUNE 7, 2015
To date, a lot of our work in financial services has been focused on insurance and wealth management. You would be expected to manage the junior client interactions for example working with the finance or marketing team, and be given opportunities to present work to senior business leaders. How do you work with clients?
Start Networking with People Outside Your Industry
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 20, 2016
He embarked on a networking campaign that forced him to meet each week with people outside the company, including executive recruiters, venture capitalists, startup entrepreneurs, and more. But when he realized his circle had become dangerously small, he committed to regular breakfast meetings with new colleagues.
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What Spinning Off a GE Business Taught Me About Managing Ultra-Fast Change
Harvard Business
JULY 24, 2017
So four years ago, when I was CEO of GE Capital Retail Finance and tapped to lead a mega change initiative — splitting off our unit into a new, publicly traded company, Synchrony Financial — I’ll admit I viewed it as a huge challenge. Would our health insurance programs include their doctors and hospitals?
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How Geisinger Treats Diabetes by Giving Away Free, Healthy Food
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 25, 2017
Today, patients who meet these criteria and express interest in our program are referred to an enrollment class where they meet their care team and receive a “prescription” for healthy, diabetes-appropriate food. Because Geisinger has a health insurance company, it is easy to access to payer-side claims data.
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28 Myths of the Gig Economy, Corrected
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 30, 2018
That reflects a growing economy that’s offering more full-time employment, but it also shows a generation that may want the same thing as their parents: Steady jobs with a clear advancement track and benefits such as health insurance and paid time off. 2: We’re all going to be giggers.
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36 Writing Your Résumé When Your Job Title Doesn’t Reflect Your Responsibilities
Harvard Business
MAY 16, 2017
Collaborated with University Facilities, Safety & Risk, Risk Manager; ServPro; and Insurance Adjuster to plan and execute clean-up and equipment replacement. Throughout four-day visit, arrived early and left late to ensure that everything ran smoothly, including meetings, housing, transportation, and meals.
Blockchain for Supply Chain – Insights from Berlin
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 17, 2019
years ago my touchpoints with blockchain increased, for example, while writing my master degree thesis on “Possible Applications on Health Data and Health Insurance” I interviewed someone in the health space that was working on a blockchain project for his health data startup. You meet all types of crazy interesting people.
Connecting Unemployed Youth with Organizations That Need Talent
Harvard Business
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
Meanwhile, the alternative — housing subsidies, unemployment insurance, health care subsidies, even incarceration costs — generate huge social costs. If one spends a year unemployed before the age of 23, 10 years later he can expect to earn 23% less than the other. For women, the spread 10 years out is 16%.
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28 Joint Ventures Reduce the Risk of Major Capital Investments
Harvard Business
APRIL 6, 2016
For example, Ageas, a large European insurance company, has been using this model for its successful expansion into Asia. But on the other hand, in order to safeguard the company’s future competitiveness, CEOs may have no other choice than to invest now.
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28 EU officials Give Greece Three Days to Deliver Reforms or Face
MishTalk
JULY 2, 2013
Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. If they fail, the International Monetary Fund might have to withdraw from the 240 billion euro ($313 billion) bailout to avoid violating its own rules, which require a borrower to be financed a year ahead. Dollar Collapse News on the Dollar's Death Spiral.
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Why GE, Boeing, Lowe’s, and Walmart Are Directly Buying Health Care for Employees
Harvard Business
JUNE 8, 2017
Fewer than 5% of healthcare systems initially identified for participation in ECEN meet all of the quality requirements for consideration. Business development, contracting, and finance personnel are also required. Hospitals and individual participating physicians undergo a thorough and iterative evaluation process.
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28 Simmereing Stew; Italy's Finance Minister Joins "United States of Europe" Parade; Germany's "5 Wise Men" Argue for Grexit
MishTalk
JULY 28, 2015
Italy's finance minister, Pier Carlo Padoan calls for ‘Political Union’ to Save Euro. Italy’s finance minister has called for deeper eurozone integration in the aftermath of the Greek crisis, saying a move “straight towards political union” is the only way to ensure the survival of the common currency. Let's start with Italy.
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28 What the Best Transformational Leaders Do
Harvard Business
MAY 8, 2017
Transformational CEOs Tend to be “Insider Outsiders” The list is topped by companies headed by visionary founders with no prior experience in their industries; Jeff Bezos came from the world of finance, and Reed Hastings from software.
What Is Blockchain? A Beginner’s Guide
Tom Spencer
JANUARY 28, 2017
According to Nick Szabo , a cryptographer and “father” of smart contracts, an idea which he explored in a paper published in 1998 , smart contracts are “a set of promises agreed to in a meeting of the minds [which] is the traditional way to formalize a relationship.”. Image Source: Wall Street Journal ).
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60 Marketing Analytics Can Improve the Customer Experience - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM GOOGLE ANALYTICS 360 SUITE
Harvard Business
AUGUST 9, 2016
Almost every organization today is putting customer experience (CX) at the core of its strategy, aiming to provide products and services that meet customers at every touch point. For example, at Progressive Insurance , the marketing team collected data on how mobile app users were behaving.
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Fighting Uncertainty in Organizations, Including Matrix Ones
Epicflow
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Beyond just time, buffers can cover finances, manpower, and more. Having Insurance (Risk Buffer). Be it health, car, or home insurance; the idea is to have a buffer against unexpected damage or health issues. This chapter digs deeper into a powerful tool for mitigating their impact: buffers. Most vehicles come with a spare tire.
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