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Case Studies on Enterprise Risk Management

Five Critical Skills That Entrepreneurs Need: What Jerry Kaplan thinks!!

Kaplan talks about the five critical skills that entrepreneurs need: 1) Leadership: ability to build consensus in the face of uncertainty 2) Communication: ability to keep a clear and consistent message 3) Decision-making: knowing when to make a decision 4) [...]

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From Burden to Benefit: Making the Most of Regulatory Risk Management

The paradoxical view that regulation is both a blessing and a curse continues to be widely held among senior executives. While they recognize the need for protection in key areas, they are often frustrated by what they see as overly [...]

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Don't Hit the Panic Button When a Client is Unhappy

When we feel attacked, we get defensive -- that's human nature. But if you want to be successful and happy as an entrepreneur, you need to start thinking about situations like this in a non-toxic way. Here are some alternative [...]

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Case study on Symantec

Symantec, a major global software provider, has more than 12,000 enterprise customers around the world running its Enterprise Vault product in Microsoft® Exchange Server environments. For the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 launch, Symantec worked on new and enhanced technology, including [...]

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Case study on Werner Enterprises

Werner Enterprises, Inc. was founded in 1956 and is a premier transportation and logistics company, with coverage throughout North America, Asia, Europe, South America, Africa and Australia. Werner maintains its global headquarters in Omaha, Nebraska and maintains offices in the United [...]

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Managing commercial risk: a Chinese case study

Engaging in international trade is hazardous in comparison to domestic trade. However, as the globalization of American industry continues, an increasing number of firms will undertake international trade, and consequently become subject to all of the risks that lie therein. [...]

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Emerging Markets : a Case Study on Foreign Market Entry in Laos; MBA-thesis in marketing

This thesis is conducted for Husqvarna AB with the aim to map the Laotian market for them in terms of market potential for forestry power equipment. In order to provide decision material for further action I was asked to give [...]

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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 [...]

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Famous failures of complex engineering systems

There were a lot of famous failures of engineering systems: Titanic, Tacoma narrows bridge collapse, Subsynchronous resonance in power systems, Telephone and power system outages, Estonia Ferry sinking, Denver airport baggage handling system, and Ariane 5. Each of [...]

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