The business risks to users who rely on Google Mail and Google Voice are mind-boggling.
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It's a vision that involves taking calculated business risks, not with the quality of the journalism, but with everything else.
One place the economist might see a difference is in the two banks' business risks, and thus their costs.
This matters because the regulatory and capital requirements as well as business risks are wildly different for each industry.
Today, companies are looking to address the full range of business risks in a way that supports long-term growth.
We are just trying to balance up personal health and business risks.
As most people now painfully know, Sarbanes-Oxley, or Sarbox, requires companies to disclose any business risks facing the company to investors in public filings.
The business risks of using these services depend on two key requirements: durability (protecting your critical data from loss) and availability (keeping your systems up and running).
African emerging market economies have yet to develop a democratic system that respects property rights, as one regime privatizes and the other nationalizes, magnifying business risks and uncertainties.
Corporate directors and executives can be sued and even face criminal liability if the company fails to properly disclose business risks--including, many now worry, the cost of emissions.
Business risks such as strikes, productivity or the failure of oil and gas exploration will in due course be covered as routinely as are property and workers' liability.
But companies like these have an excess of commercial power in their particular supply chain that shifts business risks, like the non-availability of goods on a production line, to a supplier without shifting the associated profit.
In sum, what was until last year an imperative for Japanese companies not to be left out of the rush into manufacturing and sourcing in China, is now being tempered and modified by the acute awareness and concern for the strategic business risks involved.
Though a commodity basket may well prove the best standard, governments have no business forcing risks on the economy through an unproven, much less controversial, idea.
You may think that the argument is a bit of a stretch at this point, since treasuries are fully backed by the U.S. government and rated AAA. Corporate bonds carry no such endorsement, so in essence I am exchanging sovereign risk for some broader risks such as credit, business and market risks.
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While the videogame industry remains an attractive, high-growth business, the challenges and risks in the business are escalating, and the need for scale is becoming more pronounced.
Nevertheless, this pragmatic shift in the way the world does business comes with risks and tradeoffs (often in terms of profit maximization).
Honest business mistakes and risks that don't work out will invariably be fodder for trial lawyers and a spur to debilitating, expensive lawsuits.
In the business of trading risks around, insurers use a peculiar kind of bookkeeping that will be familiar to anyone who has played the lottery.
The inherent business and financial risks associated with the ubiquity of technology requires a comprehensive approach that spans platforms, networks, applications and devices, and one that brings together disparate processes and technologies.
Of course, this is also a bit of a deal with the devil -- Intellectual Ventures might be the most infamous patent troll in history, and HTC and Samsung have essentially decided the risks and cost of doing business with IV are more favorable than the risks and cost of going to court.
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What is the current level and business impact of cyber risks to our company?
At the same time, minimal overlap between their client portfolios and business lines ease integration risks.
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The sooner we get on with confronting these challenges, the sooner business will begin taking risks at home.
He is also the author of Smart Growth: Building an Enduring Business by Managing the Risks of Growth.
But by focusing solely on costs, they miss the risks of business interruptions, increased commodity costs, and reduced earnings.
How is our executive leadership informed about the current level and business impact of cyber risks to our company?
The past few decades have been all about large organizations leaving the pension business and shifting retirement risks from themselves onto individuals.
As a result you may not be using the best practices, or worse, left you or your business exposed to unnecessary risks and liabilities.
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