Category Archives: Crisis Management
Case Study on American Express and Amadeus
BearingPoint is an independent management and technology consulting firm. BearingPoint, which provides management and technology consulting services to Global 2000 companies and technology consulting services to Global 2000 companies and government organizations, decided to start working with key business travel partners to find new approaches [...]
Filed under Business, Crisis Management, General Management
Lessons from Lehman: Hedge Funds and Redemption Risk
The collapse of Lehman Brothers provides a case study in risk management for hedge funds and their investors. Many hedge funds relied on Lehman Brothers for prime brokerage services, such as custody, clearing, securities lending, financing, and a variety of [...]
Filed under Crisis Management
Bhopal Gas tragedy a Case Study
The investigation of large-magnitude incidents is fraught with difficulties and the process of establishing the primary cause of an incident often requires an understanding of human nature in addition to the necessary technical and engineering skills. The salient non-technical features [...]
Banking Sector Reform and Economic Growth : Case study of the South Korean banking sector reform
South Korea experienced a financial crisis in 1997 after more than 30 years of fast eco-nomic growth. During the crisis its gross domestic product (GDP) decreased sharply and many enterprises went bankrupt. The stated-owned banks in South Korea suffered huge [...]
Filed under Banking, Crisis Management, Finance, Free Cases
Best practices in Disater management: A Maharashtra Experience!
There has been a paradigm shift in Disaster Management recently as prevention, preparedness and mitigation are being given more importance compared to the traditional rescue, relief and rehabilitation. Under this paradigm, Government of India and UNDP launched the ‘Disaster Risk [...]
Filed under Crisis Management
Understanding the Dubai Crisis 2009
The real estate sector once again is in the news for all the cruel reasons. Just as the world stood on the verge of the recovery from one of the most severe global economoc melt down, here comes a news [...]
Filed under Crisis Management, Economics, Finance, White Papers
WorldCom: from Benchmark to Bankruptcy
Verizon Communications acquired MCI/WorldCom and SBC Communications acquired AT&T Corporation, which had been in business since the 19th Century. The acquisition of MCI/WorldCom was the direct result of the behavior of WorldCom's senior managers as documented above. While it can [...]
Case Study : Housing Reconstruction in Mexico City
A case study from the World Bank covering the topic disaster risk management. It refers to the earthquake that struck Mexico City in September 1985 took more than 5,000 lives and damaged the housing of about 180,000 families. The case [...]
Filed under Crisis Management, Enviornment Management
Why Taj Employees Offered Their Lives to Save Guests During Terrorist Attack
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