Description: 1994 SOA Meeting, San Antonio. This session explored ways to develop skills to motivate, evaluate, manage, and direct the work of technical professionals. Most of this session was devoted to the subject of management style.

Description: Learn about key actuarial and analytic tools and methodologies used by commercial health insurance to identify and quantify drivers of healthcare cost and utilization (including wasteful and low-value ones) and risks. Use case scenarios in which these tools and methodologies apply, such as underwriting, reinsurance, medical management for population health and chronic diseases, managed care contracting, insurance market reform, provider payment reform, etc., will also be covered. Experience from the U.S., China and other parts of the world will be shared.

Description: The prospects for China's health insurance has increased significantly in 2018, incentivized by a series of favorable government policies to support the development of commercial health insurance. However, the market still lacks relatively mature products and services. Overall there is a common understanding in the industry that good coverage plus service is the foundation for health insurance future development, and product innovation plus care management is key for an insurance company to maintain sustainable development in the competition. In this presentation, Dr. Yang will discuss the market trend both at home and abroad with respect to health management as well as its impact on product design, pricing and cost control. With the development of internet and big data, today’s health actuary has a special role in taking advantage of the digital transformation and achieving a high-quality and efficient health care service model.

Description: Panelists discuss: [1] relationships with your reinsurer, [2] reinsurance administration, [3] setting retentions, and [4] financial reinsurance and the regulator. From the 1987 Record of Society of Actuaries, Vol. 13, No. 2.

Description: This session 60PD of Dallas Spring Meeting covers a checklist of how-tos and how not-tos, in the various areas of the operation, such as: structuring your practice, setting business objectives and market strategies, evaluating human and technical resource needs, understanding client needs, keeping up to date with the competition and new ideas, time and financial management. From the Record of the Society of Actuaries, Volume 27, No. 1, Session 60PD

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, San Diego. This session is about consultants sharing the secrets of managing clients and projects successfully.

Description: Presented at May 1986 Spring Meeting. This session discussion is about ways in which companies are responding to the need for a reduced product development time cycle: Actuarial staffing, Use of automation aids, Committee structures, Coordinating the company commitment, Market research, Use of consultants.

Description: James Glickman delivers his general session speech at the SOA 2019 SOA Annual Meeting & Exhibit in Toronto.

Description: This presentation is a section meeting from the 1991 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 20-23 in Toronto. The speaker, an author and the Walter H. Carpenter Professor of Management at Babson College, describes powerful new techniques for cutting through interdepartmental barriers and motivating people over whom you have no authority to lend your support, to lend you their support. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 4A.

Description: This teaching session, number 37TS, was presented at the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held October 15-18 in Chicago. The instructors ask: “Are you responsible for the completion of work that requires the assistance of people you have no authority over? How do you get things done if you're not in charge and can't do it all yourself? Do you have peers, project team members, and at least one boss who impacts the results you are able to achieve? To be more effective, how can you enlist the help of others who do not report to you?” Discussion from participants is included. From Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 26, No. 3.