All Strategic Risk Global articles in July 2011
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Features
How to: Cope with kidnapping
No longer reserved for movies and millionaires, kidnapping is a very real possibility for executives working and travelling in risky environments abroad. Make sure you know how to keep yourself, and your staff, safe
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Analysis
Al Qaeda after Osama
The death of Osama Bin Laden, who was killed by Navy Seals in a daring raid in Pakistan on May 2, 2011, could increase the likelihood of further international terrorist attacks
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Comment
It's finally time to reap what we've sown
All the hard work of the past year is about to yield results as Airmic delivers a number of landmark changes at its annual conference
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Analysis
Report undermines Apple's code of conduct
Despite a ‘rigorously’ enforced code of conduct, new research highlights the continuation of poor working conditions standards
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Analysis
Risks: Revolution solutions
Regime-changing revolutions in Egypt have altered a long-established landscape of illegal transactions and questionable deals, but in whose favour? And how long until business as usual returns to the country?
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Comment
When the mighty fall, what hope for the meek?
StrategicRISK’s editor-in-chief Sue Copeman considers what it means when a global giant falls foul of increasingly adept hackers, despite there being seemingly rigorous protection in place
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Features
How to: Deal with the tricky nature of collaboration
Monitoring and nurturing relationships between collaborative businesses is no easy task, meaning vital – and beneficial – components can slip through the net
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Analysis
A king's ransom
Piracy exists outside the law and continues to grow every year. As political conflicts increase the situation is set to get worse, creating new and potentially dangerous risks to manage
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Analysis
Risks: Fault lines
Global disasters, growing inequality and a depletion of natural resources are catalysing tensions between nations. Are risk managers fully prepared for the consequences?
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Guide
A guide to environmental liability in Europe
Environmental liability is nothing new in Europe. Yet European risk managers still aren’t seeing the need to buy a standalone environmental insurance product. Many are happy to seek out extensions in their general liability policies to cover risks introduced by the Environmental Liability Directive (ELD). This twenty page guide provides ...
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Graphics
Risk Financing: An exercise in parental control
As the financial squeeze continues and the market hardens, many parent companies will look to get more from their captives
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Interviews
Well connected
Manufacturing and laying sub-sea cables is a complex, big-money business. Luckily for group risk manager Alessandro De Felice, Prysmian takes its risk management very seriously
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Graphics
Risk Atlas: Dodgy dealings
Corruption is rife around the world, but larger companies are no longer turning a blind eye
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Interviews
Alessandro De Felice
Manufacturing and laying sub-sea cables is a complex, big-money business. Luckily for group risk manager Alessandro De Felice, Prysmian takes its risk management very seriously
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Analysis
Multibillion-dollar costs for Tepco
Experts believe Tepco’s compensation bill will reach upwards of €17bn