Description: This paper was authored by a SVP project director of XL Capital. Her passion is to add value and to help others get excited about adding maximum value in order to ignite their career paths. Through experience gained from running many projects - both large and small - and from working abroad for various years, she provides practical insights on how to increase your value - one second at a time.

Description: A review of business schools’ online offerings.

Description: New for 2017, we are introducing a series of articles by experienced industry professionals who are relatively new to long-term care (LTC).

Description: This article is about putting your career or business on the fast track by digging into challenges.

Description: Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place. Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of their threats and vulnerabilities, but also the upside opportunities associated with various risks. It starts with having both qualitative and quantitative information to identify, assess and manage risks. Strategic risk management, at its core, is about creating value by increasing transparency and accountability, and quality of information. More than a mere compliance exercise, effective risk management enables more informed strategic decision making, increased accountability and transparency, a greater likelihood of organizational success, and – ultimately – competitive advantage, as borne out by many studies that correlate risk management and financial results.

Description: Discussion of expense management in a small life insurance company

Description: This article provides guidelines to help you to take charge of your career by creating visibility for yourself.

Description: In this article the author talks about his experience from working at home and provides suggestions for a realistic work-at-home arrangement.

Description: Section chair Jeff Passmore encourages active participation in the section.

Description: An actuary reviews the book "What Got You Here Won't Get You There," by Marshall Goldsmith.