Risk Management

JPMorgan Unit Responsible For Huge Loss Played By Different Rules

Reuters | Posted 05.17.2012

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By Matt Scuffham and Edward Taylor LONDON/FRANKFURT, May 16 (Reuters) - The JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit that lost more than $2 billi...

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Risk-Taking Women Will Destroy World, Say Male Economists

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Risk Taking, Women, Boards of Directors, Women on Boards, Women in Business, Risk Management, Women Executives Take Risks, Women Executives, Businesswomen, Risk, Business News

In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right? The ones more likely than men to buckle their seatbelts, less likely to funnel whiskey a...

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Business Strategies for the Creative Economy

Soren Petersen | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Risk Management, Innovation, Art, Business, Economy, Creative, Business Strategy, Arts News
Soren Petersen

What differentiates entrepreneurial ventures in the creative economy is their dependence on one or a few individuals' intangible breakthrough ideas as opposed to raw material, property and energy.

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How to Manage Risk of Stock Investments Today?

Irene Aldridge | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Investing, Etfs, Stocks, Finance, Risk Management, S&P, Equities, Business News
Irene Aldridge

With globalization reshaping traditional business models, domestic stock-issuing firms are under increasing margin-reducing pressure from lean foreign competitors.

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What Puts High Achievers at Risk?

Lisa Arie | Posted 02.08.2012

Read More: Success, Leadership, Vista Caballo, Vulnerability, Motivational-Success, Risk, Career Advice, Risk Management, Career Risk, Business News
Lisa Arie

It is critical to the careers and business success of high achievers to be able to connect to and understand how to use their sense of vulnerability. You are at risk until you engage this critical sense.

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Alexander Eichler

Report Highlights Legality Of Lehman Brothers 'Gut Feeling' Business

HuffingtonPost.com | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.09.2011

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In the years leading up to its collapse, Lehman Brothers nearly doubled its risk and took a scattershot approach to valuing its assets, according to a...

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Learning From Penn State To Speak Up, Not Cover Up

Judith Samuelson | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Risk Management, Penn State Scandal, Values, Mary Gentile, Ethics, Giving Voice to Values, Business News
Judith Samuelson

While the Euro Zone threw global markets into turmoil last week, all eyes here in the U.S. were riveted on Pennsylvania, as a shocking story of transg...

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Corporate Boards in a Time of Change, Uncertainty, and Rising Expectations

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 11.14.2011

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Lucy P. Marcus

I think the most exciting and important development is that there is greater public awareness of corporate governance and boards, which is vital. It's no longer a black box, or a mysterious room.

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Enterprise Risk Management: Are We Ignoring the Segment With the Most Critical Need?

Jay Vadiveloo | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Risk Management, Small Business America, Small Business, Corporate America, Corporations, Enterprise Risk Management, Business News
Jay Vadiveloo

Most of the current Enterprise Risk Management guidelines and principles are designed for large- and medium-sized organizations. Minimal attention is being paid to the largest, fastest growing and most important segment of the American economy, small businesses.

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Europe: Lacking a Long-Term Solution

Gemma Godfrey | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Debt, Europe, Liquidity, Financials, Economy, Bailouts, Downgrade, Credit Default Swaps, Asset Allocation, Eu, Bank Shares, Government, Hedge Funds, Sovereign Debt Crisis, Bank, European Financial Stability Fund, Portugal, Safe Haven, Greece, Equities, Earnings, Hedging, Italy, Volatility, Germany, Stock Markets, Wealth Management, Risk Management, Committee for European Securities Regulators, Commerzbank, Greek Debt, Short Selling, Austerity, France, Investing, Gdp Growth, European Banks, Investment, Ban on Short Selling, Gemma Godfrey, Contagion, Valuations, Debt Burden, Cash, Piigs, Search for Yield, Business News
Gemma Godfrey

Over the last few days we have seen a tremendous amount of volatility in the markets, epitomizing the lack of clarity with which many investors have struggled.

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Are You Being Paid for the Risk in Money Markets?

Max Rudolph | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Money Markets, Financial Risk, Risk Management, Actuaries, Credit Default Swaps, Quantitative Easing 2, European Debt Markets, Dodd-Frank, Mark-to-Market Accounting, Short-Term Rates, Business News
Max Rudolph

To ensure another AIG catastrophe doesn't threaten to topple the markets, and the market makers within them, reporting needs a much higher degree of transparency.

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Why Every Company Needs a Skeptic

Max Rudolph | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Risk Management, Financial Crisis, FInancial Markets, Wall Street, U.S. Economy, Business News
Max Rudolph

As businesses move forward in the post-financial crisis world, it just may pay to encourage someone to let us know when it is time to leave the dance floor.

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Merchants of Danger

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: General Electric, JPMorgan Chase, Ge, Fcic, Fukushima, Risk Management, GE Capital, Jamie Dimon, Nuclear Reactors, Jeffrey Immelt, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The ugly truth, here and in Japan, is this: Unless government regains the will and the ability to regulate private industry, more catastrophes are all but inevitable.

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Inception Under Threat

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lucy P. Marcus

companies are making tough decisions about where money is spent, and they are having a hard time justifying investing in their future when their present looks so shaky.

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Future Proofing the Boardroom: Today's Agendas

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lucy P. Marcus

The board room agenda is going through a reformation. What are some of the essential things that boards and board members need to think about? Five areas need an update.

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Future Proofing the Boardroom: Grounding and Stargazing

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lucy P. Marcus

The role of modern corporate boards is the juxtaposition of grounding and stargazing. Grounding is about making sure that the company fulfills all o...

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Risky Business

William S. Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

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William S. Becker

The global community remains unprepared for changes to the Earth's climate. What's needed is an international risk management effort, a process that's more familiar in military and national security circles than in environmental circles.

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Taking Risks in Tough Times

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Risk Management, Innovation, Organizational Culture, Mouse Experiments, Anxious Employees, Conditioning, Business News
Ron Ashkenas

Just like mice in a lab, managers and employees need to be rewarded and reinforced for taking risks, and not given mixed messages about whether or not it's acceptable.

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The New TSA: Touch, Search and Assess

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Risk Assessment, Terrorism, Whole Body Scans, Homeland Security, Risk Management, Aviation, Airport Security, Airport Screenign, Tsa, Politics News
Jeff Schweitzer

Give me whole body screening at airports any day. I would rather someone glance at my partially naked butt than kiss my butt goodbye.

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A New Terrorism Alert System. Goodbye, and Good Riddance, to Code Red

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Ropeik

What color worried are you today? No-worries Green? Freaked-out Red? A-little-nervous Yellow? Not for long. The color-coded chart of our fears is...

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Financial Fitness and Physical Fitness

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011

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Don McNay

Most of us want to be physically fit, but very few of us are. The same holds true with financial security. As my father (and many others) used to say, "A lot of people want to go to heaven but no one wants to die to get there."

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Climate Action: Part 2 - Down to Business

William S. Becker | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Walmart, Climate, Epa, Exxon Mobil, Climate Tort, Risk Management, Hsbc, Business, Federal Trade Commission, Investors, Fossil Fuels, Rockefeller, Lenders, Banks, Mountain Top Removal, Climate Change, Securities and Exchange Commission, Green News
William S. Becker

Last year, the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication conducted a survey of American attitudes on climate change. In one question, it asked who ...

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How to Fail at Crisis Response

Jonathan Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Crisis Simulations, Crisis Management, Crisis Exercises, Crisis Testing, Crisis Communications, Crisis Plan, Risk Management, Business News
Jonathan Bernstein

Testing a plan for the first time always has the potential for something going horribly wrong.

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How to Take More Risk and Advance Your Career in 6 Steps

Adele Scheele | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Career-Development, Career Advice, Careers, Risk Management, Personal Growth, Self-Help, Healthy Living News
Adele Scheele

We need to make risk out middle name. We have to be willing to try many avenues so that one works out. Nobody can afford to play it safe anymore. Job ...

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The C-Factor: How Credibility Plays a Role in Crisis Management

Jonathan Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Reputation Management, Risk Management, Crisis Management, Crisis Communications, Corporate Public Relations, Business News
Jonathan Bernstein

Imagine your organization becoming the target of a class action lawsuit alleging fraudulent marketing practices; or learning that it's the target of an investigation by a state attorney general.

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