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Meeting expectations
PricewaterhouseCoopers has published a booklet - The Board Agenda: Good Practices for Meeting Market Expectations
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Managing people pays
US consultancy Watson Wyatt shows that superior human resources practices are a leading indicator of increased shareholder value.
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Processes not people
Research by Ernst & Young’s real estate, hospitality and construction group reveals that the top 75 UK construction companies take risk management seriously
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Gloomy picture at Ferma
Shrinking capacity and rising rates resulting from the World Trade Center disaster dominated talk at the Federation of European Risk Management (Ferma) forum in Barcelona.
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Management practices and shareholder value
A new study of best practices in generating and sustaining shareholder value
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Data protection guidelines
Since 23 October, organisations have had to meet new obligations and comply with tighter controls on using the personal information they have collected.
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Taking more risks
UK companies are increasingly adopting a risk-taking stance as CEOs realise the importance of risk management, according to recent research.
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Early warning system
AIG Europe is offering its financial institution clients an early warning system that allows them to use confidential consultancies to help diagnose business risks.
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Moving forward
The events of 11 September have shattered the traditional concepts of our world.
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Serious fraud escalates
Big business is losing out to fraudsters, with over EURO3.6bn lost in the last two years
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Stress claim dismissed
An office manager who brought a claim against her employers for work-related stress has had her case dismissed.
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Public sector good practice
Sir John Bourn, head of the National Audit Office, said that his office was working with government departments to improve their risk management and assist them in well thought-through risk taking.
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Responsibility conference
The future Belgian presidency of the European Union, jointly with the Commission, is organising a conference on the place of corporate social responsibility on the social policy agenda.
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Emotions blocking effective risk management
organisations are losing out and failing to realise value because ego, greed and fear are stopping them from employing effective risk management
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European call for CSR
European commissioners have presented a Green Paper promoting a European framework for corporate social responsibility (CSR).
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Top US corporate citizens
A recent issue of Business Ethics magazine lists the 100 best corporate citizens for 2001, America’s most profitable and socially responsible major public companies.
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The value of environmental performance
Does superior environmental performance indicate increased shareholder value? An emerging body of evidence suggests it may, according to a report from the Assabet Group.
