Like subprime, it is a black-box, in which management and investors alike are told to trust in the experts.
"Sarbanes is a lens through which management and boards should view climate risk, " said Bob O'Connor, a partner with Palo Alto, Calif.
By studying and discussing cases, students are encouraged to form their own ideas about which management approaches work -- and which don't.
Entitled The Sustainable Value Chain the study seeks to identify which management practices deliver the greatest value both in sustainability outcomes and ROI.
It provides a nice base (ideally a growing base) of revenue on which management can rely while focusing on ways to grow the business.
They ignore the extent to which management is a craft, requiring zest and intuition rather than merely an ability to analyse data and invent strategies.
More to the point, if the Fed doesn't print too much money, an increase in labor costs would only result in a squeeze on corporate profits, which management could deal with by boosting productivity.
However, as Mr Bonsignore takes over that task, a longer-term question still remains about the viability of conglomerates in an age in which management people talk about core competences even more than six sigma.
The company, which is based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, held a conference call on Monday during which management said it does not expect the Japanese crisis to have any direct impact on its business, either short ot long-term.
Or it is a complete failure of internal controls and risk management systems, which means general management failed big time, too.
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The organizational sea on which talent management sails has been rising for the past few years.
Managed accounts pay advisory fees which include management and incentive fees, whereas funds using profit allocation clauses only pay management fees.
To believers in free markets, this sounds like a classic private-equity turnaround in which better management improves the value of a business.
And he likes to see a spinoff with ample cash, which gives management flexibility to expand its business, make acquisitions or pay dividends.
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Although the company has been failing to service its debts, it claimed that it is solvent because its liabilities were smaller than its assets, which the management values at replacement cost.
Microsoft's MMC plug-ins - which are management applets that run inside the console - replace many of the old configuration and administration tools that currently ship with NT, such as the User Manager, Server Manager and Event Viewer.
After agreements are made, a new chapter begins, in which new management styles need to be implemented, corporate cultures change, financial operations could be overhauled, new technologies must be put in place, and novel corporate policies will be forced upon the acquired organization.
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He remained on the board (in the chair for five years), and signs of loyalty to principles appeared in 1999 when he wrote an open letter to the paper's employees condemning a secret deal in which the management had agreed to devote an edition of the Sunday magazine to a local sports arena in return for sharing the advertising profits.
The result is a glut of the young adult lobsters useful to commercial fishermen, which co-management probably helps to maintain, but which might prove unstable in the long run.
Virtually every board of directors seeks to develop and actively oversee a well conceived, gradual management succession process in which high-potential management candidates are identified early, groomed and the like in a very orderly way.
In a similar fashion, you can create a broadly diversified portfolio but choose an active management strategy instead of simply buying and holding to track the major indexes (which is passive management).
At which point we come to the two management books which you really should read.
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Another recent innovation could also help: watershed management, which means managing water supplies across political or management borders can better control pollution and track water withdrawals.
To get there, Julian suggested that management should undertake experiments to find out which alternative ways of management work better.
Some larger firms are looking for fully enterprise level liquidity management, putting in place a phased program which starts with data management.
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Symantec also intends to integrate the PGP key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center, which simplifies security information management by providing customers consolidated access to threat, security and operational dashboards and reporting.
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There, high returns lead to inflows of assets from investors, which boost the management firm's profits.
The green paper sets out options which include handing management to private companies to save costs.
There are risks in this, of dispute if not war, which will require management.
To this end, he has taken the CEO spot at ServiceNow, which provides IT management tools.
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