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Exracted 23JUN2012 from http://www.forbes.com/sites/panosmourdoukoutas/2012/06/22/why-president-obama... ...outsourcing is a good business strategy. It improves efficiency, speeds up product development, and allows companies to focus on their “cor...
Read MoreExtracted 22APR2012 from http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/world/asia/us-and-afghanistan-reach-partner... After months of negotiations, the United States and Afghanistan completed drafts of a strategic partnership agreement on Sunday that pledges ...
Read MoreExtracted 15DEC2011 from http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/its_time_for_big_investments_i.html Ahmet C. Bozer* The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is a rapidly diversifying, entrepreneurial, and globally connected business region. It saw 5% annu...
Read MoreExtracted 30NOV2011 fromwww.unctad.org/en/docs/ditctncd20074_en.pdf Given the importance of the insurance sector, its potential for growth, rapidly emergingtrends within the sector including the trend towards liberalization of insurance services, ...
Read MoreExtracted 30NOV2011 from http://www.zurich.com/insight/downloadlibrary/ What is the role of insurance in economic development? (2008) Fortunately, in the past few years, several interesting lines of research have begun to map the specific contribu...
Read MoreExtracted 30NOV2011 from www.iifdc.org/pubs/Insurance%20Assessment%20Report.pdf [The claims and evidence in this report, produced in 2006, are important in the current climate of accelerating globalization.] Given the lack of global information on...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199296378/01student/additional/page_10.htm The micro-environment consists of stakeholder groups that a firm has regular dealings with. The way these relationships develop can affect the co...
Read MoreExtracted 22NOV2011 from http://www.oup.com/uk/orc/bin/9780199296378/01student/additional/page_12.htm There are many factors in the macro-environment that will effect the decisions of the managers of any organisation. Tax changes, new laws, trade ...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://tinyurl.com/cxdmmk7 Experience has shown that risk and reward are inter-related and businesses cannot maximise reward (Shareholder Value) without taking a calculated risk. The art and science of calculating risk is ...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2011/11/10/advanced-analytics-can-improve-... ...commercial insurers today are typically still relying on rule- and grid-based approaches to determine when to offer customers complementar...
Read MoreExtracted 15NOV2011 from http://www.propertycasualty360.com/2011/04/04/predictive-analytics-a-powerful... Predictive analytics is the process of analyzing historic and current data and generating a statistical model to help predict future outcomes...
Read MoreExtracted 03NOV2011 from http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2011/11/bribe-payers-index?fsrc=scn/tw/te/dc/internationalbackscratching BRIBERY involves two parties, not one. Lambasting officials in poor countries for their sticky fingers is e...
Read MoreExtracted 24OCT2011 from http://www.globalriskaffairs.com/2011/10/integrity-due-diligence-towards-an-i... By Jennifer Hanley-Giersch Corporations and institutions can attain a strategic and competitive advantage by pursuing an integrated approach ...
Read MoreExtracted 21OCT2011 from http://tinyurl.com/3v3b5ga India will soon replace the 56-year-old Companies Act with a new legislation aimed at improving corporate governance and checking frauds in boardrooms... the key focus is on ensuring that compani...
Read MoreExtracted 20OCT2011 from http://www.thecorporatecounsel.net/nonMember/InsideTrack/2011/10_26_Kaplan.htm In this podcast, Jeff [Kaplan] explains the latest developments in the anti-corruption area including the results of a benchmarking study condu...
Read MoreExtracted 20OCT2011 from http://www.npr.org/2011/10/19/141473145/businesses-push-back-on-foreign-bribe... One of the federal government's few success stories when it comes to policing corporate crime in recent years comes from a post-Watergate law...
Read MoreExtracte 17OCT2011 from http://www1.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/corp_ext_content/ifc_external_corporate_s... The report finds that institutions such as IFC help catalyze job creation and growth through the private sector in emerging markets by providi...
Read MoreExtracted 07OCT2011 from http://www.securitas.com/pinkerton/en/Services/Due-Diligence/ An effective Due Diligence program is essential for any business, especially those with international interests, investment partners, foreign business partners ...
Read MoreAvailable for download at www.control-risks.com/webcasts/studio/anti.../FCPA_article_LR.pdf Control Risks Group Limited (2011) All directors of international companies need to have at least a basic understanding of the law, firstly because the FCP...
Read MoreExtracted 07OCT2011 from http://www.kroll.com/ This edition of the Global Fraud Report discusses best practice approaches to managing fraud and regulatory risk across a variety of markets, and the importance of treating compliance as a tool to bui...
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