A chronic gap between rich and poor is yawning wider, posing the biggest single risk to the world in 2014, even as economies in many countries start to recover, the World Economic Forum said on Thursday.
U.S. wildfire managers facing increasingly strained resources have opened talks with Pentagon commanders and Canadian officials about possible reinforcements of personnel and aircraft to battle dozens of blazes.
Large projects requiring multiple software systems and multiple technologies require careful design and planning before one line of code is written or one subsystem is specd out.
Large projects requiring multiple software systems and multiple technologies require careful design and planning before one line of code is written or one subsystem is specd out.
Back in the 1920s, the Western Electric Co. conducted a series of experiments to determine the relationship between lighting and productivity. The expectation was that test results would encourage industries to use artificial lighting in place of natural light. Researchers were surprised to find that productivity increased in both the...
For an insurance segment highly coveted by producers and major carriers alike, the high net worth insurance business can often lack one major asset: an abundance of clients. Many wealthy Americans may be unaware that a specialty insurance market geared toward their unique exposures exists, executives say.
Our success or failure is eventually based on how we take care of our customers through their time of need, says Jim Fiske, U.S. marketing manager for Chubb Personal Insurance. In turn, such undivided attention invokes clients willingness to advocate on our behalf as to how we took care of...
Whether it's saving Faberge eggs from the wrath of a hurricane or covering a sneaker collection, high net worth insurers go to extremes to insure the extreme lifestyles of the wealthy.