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- Scott Adams on Board Governance
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From Financial Rounds
January 19, 2008 4:40 PM
- Corporate governance survey conducted (Pakistan)
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From Inside Sarbanes Oxley
January 19, 2008 12:13 AM
- Enron-driven reforms are unraveling
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From Inside Sarbanes Oxley
January 19, 2008 12:06 AM
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- Tackling T&E Expense Reports
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Diverts
- Judge Throws Out Popcorn Case
- Manhattan Civil Court Judge Matthew Cooper has thrown out Steve Kaplan's case against AMC Theatres. [more]
- Biggest Elvis, Burger, Roller Coaster, and More!
- In case you were wondering, the largest velvet Elvis -- he's 12 feet by 12 feet -- can be spotted at The Tattoo Factory in Chicago. [more]
- British Women Bolt for Aussie Blokes
- With promises of plentiful sunshine, affordable homes, low crime, good jobs, and lots of single men, Southern Australia is luring Britain's highly skilled, young women to its shores. [more]
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Alerts
ERM Still a Work in Progress at Life Insurance Companies
June 26, 2008 3:15 PM
Financial services providers have long been the vanguard of enterprise risk management (ERM), but even these early adopters still haven't finished tweaking their programs. The latest in a long series of studies by Towers Perrin finds that life insurance companies are steadily enhancing their ERM tools and capabilities but still have a way to go in key areas such as establishing the organization's risk appetite and preparing for emerging risks.
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- Human Capital Goes Global
- Imbalances in the world's labor supply will result in a surge of workers across borders in the coming decades. [more]
- Ethics and Compliance: Are We There Yet?
- Five-plus years after Sarbanes-Oxley, companies face ever-increasing regulatory compliance demands and new ethical challenges raised by a more complex and global business environment, according to risk consultancy LRN. [more]
- 4 Guiding Principles for Successful Leaders -- and Companies
- Many great leaders don't build successful organizations, according to this article by Bain consultants Mark Gottfredson and Steve Schaubert and nonprofit leader Elisabeth Babcock. [more]
- What Drives Women Leaders?
- The McKinsey Leadership Project interviewed 85 successful women leaders in diverse fields around the world to learn what drives and sustains them and to help organizations get the best out of this talented group. [more]
- Developing Leaders in China
- This case study describes how Agilent Technologies employed rigorous metrics to assess the leadership capabilities of managers in its operations in China. [more]
- Experienced New Hires May Not Be Successful
- Companies often seek to hire skilled, experienced workers with a track record in the same industry, but this report proves that this strategy may not always work best. [more]
- Business Leaders Are Transforming Social Enterprises
- A new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency and accountability from the organizations they are funding. [more]
- How a CEO Slows Down To Improve Business
- The CEO of insurance brokerage Dawson Cos., who works out of the firm's Naples, Fla., office, describes in this article how he uses "Zen management" to build strong relationships with staff members in Ohio who suffer through winter's chill. [more]
- Drill, Baby, Drill
- All politics aside, promising GRC initiatives too often only scrapes the surface. [more]
- A Path Through the Information Maze
- Businesses churn out vast volumes of information; the average management report contains 12,000 to 15,000 data points. [more]
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