Successful crisis management, my colleagues at Control Risks always remind me, is part good planning and part intelligent improvisation.
Nick Catrantzos of the Control Risks Group, an international firm based in London, England, said kidnapping groups are organized and entrepreneurial.
London-based Control Risks is among the leaders in the corporate security industry at navigating the paperwork complications of keeping ships secured.
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Companies such as Armor Holdings, or Control Risks, a consultancy based in London, are always keen to stress what they do not do.
Control Risks ranks countries across four categories, including political and terrorist risk, and rates each country on a five-point scale, from Insignificant through Extreme.
Not getting our fiscal deficits under control risks the whole economy.
Elsewhere, where private security is allowed, companies such as Control Risks and G4S provide physical protection for oil and gas facilities as well as risk analysis.
Some companies have tried to control risks by stocking up on plastics when they think the price will rise and running down inventories ahead of an expected fall.
To determine which countries were the most dangerous, we asked iJet and Control Risks , a London-based risk consultancy, to provide us with their watch lists of high-risk countries.
This will create new issues for those companies in industries like logistics and construction where there is much interaction with officials, says Charles Hecker at Control Risks, an international risks consultancy.
Toby Latta, a Russia analyst for Control Risks, points out that the sources of danger in that country can often be pinpointed: acts of violence against western-owned businesses are not usually random.
More than two-thirds of the European and American firms surveyed recently by Control Risks felt that Russia was becoming riskier for business whereas most respondents saw risk to be static or dimishing in India, China and Brazil.
Montenegro, a country whose economy relies heavily on tourism and has been developing its status as a boutique resort for wealthy Russians, has had healthy relations with Russia, thanks in part to its relatively peaceful stance during the Balkan wars, according to Sorana Parvulescu of Control Risks Group, a specialist risk consultancy.
"It will vary according to the mineral group and project life cycle but we are likely to see investors looking elsewhere in the region ... particularly if the South African government doesn't come out quite strongly and say what its plans for the sector are going forward, " says Simiso Velempini, South Africa analyst for global business risk consultancy Control Risks.
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Investment banks are no longer as confident as they once were of their ability to control trading risks.
It added that policymakers need to put in place measures to "closely monitor and control the risks related to borrowing by local entities, especially local government financing vehicles".
Through its regulation of the private investment firms among which personal account investors can choose, the government can limit and control the risks workers can take on with their personal accounts, preventing moral hazard from the guarantee.
But as knowledge of how to control the risks of flying accumulated as checklists and flight simulators became more prevalent and sophisticated the danger diminished, values of safety and conscientiousness prevailed, and the rock-star status of the test pilots was gone.
Arguably worst of all, Team Obama is pursuing an arms control agenda that risks making matters substantially worse.
Also, it can cut down on lead times, reduce inventory levels, diminish some currency risks, increase control over intellectual property, and reduce supply chain disruption risks.
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Keeping credit risks under control in Thailand or Brazil will be a serious management challenge.
The bank keeps its risks under control by selling off mortgage and credit-card receivables to bigger institutions.
PT's moderate wing, to which Lula belongs, risks losing control of the party in internal elections due in September.
People can take control and reduce their risks very substantially and very quickly by giving up at any age.
"Not for the first time, hard-working taxpayers are paying for Labour's inability to manage risks and control costs, " he said.
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Contrary to the hoary theories of arms control, however, the risks appear greater when U.S. deterrent power is discounted than when it is overwhelming.
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