Yes, my business is crisis management, I just never expected it to hit so close to home.
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The new rules require them to hold core capital of 10% and up to 9% of contingent capital, a type of debt that converts to equity in times of trouble, and to show how they would wind up their business in a crisis.
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That's why it's so important for business schools to use this crisis as a springboard for discussing the social impact of business.
Mr Berlusconi has been absent from the airwaves for four days because he is dealing with a crisis in his Fininvest business empire (elderly media mogul struggles with corporate crisis, shock).
Certainly there were ups and downs during this time, marked by business cycles, energy supply shocks and the like but no major crisis in the business of banking.
Warren Buffet, who rushed into the bond insurance business during the financial crisis has since backed away.
But claims that today's oil prices amount to anything approaching a crisis for business at large are unfounded.
It hadn't been that long since his family had experienced rough financial times after losing their residential development business in the housing crisis.
So for top business schools the financial crisis may be a catalyst, affecting not just how their clients operate but how the schools themselves operate.
And our goal is to quicken the day when we restart lending to the American people and American business and end this crisis once and for all.
Although he is in home insurance assessments, which is considered a stable end of the business, the dual crisis -- rocking his investments and employer -- was particularly jarring.
As I wrote at the time on my blog, In Good Company, it spoke of an identity crisis for business schools, which were beginning to look inward at their curricula to find explanations for the failed leadership on Wall Street.
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Business growth in the crisis.
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These examples emphasize not only the valuable resources that business aircraft may provide in times of crisis, they also demonstrate the compassion and charity of business aircraft operators willing to give of themselves to help others in their time of need.
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The post-financial-crisis independent film business is both more independent and more focused on film than before.
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They were losing business and in an economic crisis, advertising and marketing is the first thing that goes.
They, like most people, feel this whole sorry business represents a fabrication of crisis, one of our own making.
The manager of Dongkai Pawnshop says his business has benefited from the crisis.
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This is favouring the market leaders most, says Heidi Gardner of Harvard Business School, because the crisis has made governments risk-averse about whom they hire.
Last week Lehman was the subject of a massive sell-off that eroded confidence in its business and sparked a funding crisis that ultimately led to its demise.
Worse, the right's new hero is CNBC's Rick Santelli, a man who on September 2, 2008, said the economy was healthy and blamed the business media for the financial crisis.
In fact, Cisco seems destined for a rebound in its core business once the current financial crisis subsides, when those big buyers find they cannot put off technology upgrades any longer.
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With that in mind, the conversation needs to be redirected to how policymakers can create the conditions for business growth and remove the crisis of confidence that has been deterring companies from hiring.
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Since the financial crisis, several business schools have introduced ethics courses addressing the moral shortcomings of convicted Ponzi scheme operator Bernard Madoff or added lessons on the social implications of the mortgage meltdown.
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Prior to joining EMD, Wendy spent a decade acquiring hands-on global and national disaster preparedness and response private sector operational experience managing physical security, national crisis management and business continuity projects and teams at Microsoft and the former Washington Mutual Bank.
"The initiative addresses a looming crisis in the business world identified by IBM researchers--in five years, given the rapid proliferation of technology and growing shortage of trained systems administrators, the majority of corporations will not be able to manage their systems using current computing technologies, " said William Zeitler, an IBM senior vice president, in a memo to company employees.
He steered that business through the most challenging financial crisis of our careers and helped it emerge even stronger.
Now it is focused on expanding retail brokerage and rebuilding an institutional business badly shaken by the financial crisis.
America is currently facing a crisis of leadership in business and in government.
The greatest nation on Earth cannot keep conducting its business by drifting from one manufactured crisis to the next.
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