Description: Brief discussion about the Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section [EAS], its activities, webcasts, newsletter, and Vendor Referral Program.

Description: Article about time management and sticking to a schedule for meetings.

Description: In this article the author discusses the risks involved with information technology, with respect to security, IT management, and business continuation plans.

Description: This column highlights the visible activities of the EAS section: educational opportunities, networking, and essay contest.

Description: This review of Nancy Ancowitz’s book “Self Promotion for Introverts,” states that it reads “as though it were written with actuaries in mind.” The reviewer highlights how the book can help both the actuary promoting his own business and the actuary who is a member of a large organization.

Description: This is the May 2010 issue of the Entrepreneurial Section newsletter, The Independent Consultant.

Description: This article, an Honorable Mention Essay for the Society of Actuaries' Entrepreneurial Actuaries Section 2010 Papers Competition, is a discussion of the various issues relating to measurement of data in healthcare. The author presents “a light hearted & tongue-in-cheek take on how healthcare is typically measured, and an entrepreneurial vision for a better world.” Noting that typically data is summarized in deterministic models that produce point estimates for analysis and decision making, the author’s vision presented in the paper “is that of a central repository of actuarially modeled distributions that can either be used as benchmarks or adapted to an organization's experience.”

Description: The author reviews the impact of health care exchanges becoming operational in 2014, and he offers ideas for efficient risk identification and ways to measure the results.

Description: The author asserts that your brand, or reputation, cannot be manufactured. A successful brand is built on what is real and authentic about you. She provided some tips to help you fast-track your brand building.

Description: Stand Out From The Crowd Through Articles In Magazines by Carl Friesen from Smaller Consulting Firm Section, January 2003, Issue No. 1.