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...directions--contaminated products from China, terrorist attacks on facilities in the Middle East, Katrina- and Ike-size weather events at home--which has led to the rise of what the consultants call enterprise risk management. The level of risk a company is willing to take is articulated by the board of directors, and then measures of risk taken are gathered and fed up to the highest levels of management...
...when the board of postal-machine maker Pitney Bowes decided to analyze risk more systematically, the company listed 16 categories of risk--from supply chain to reputation--and assigned a senior executive to be in charge of each one in an attempt to drive the new ethos into the corporate culture. What was important was that the firm also made a deliberate decision that risk was not something that could be reduced to a number. "We have a much more holistic discussion about a business and why we have it," says vice president and treasurer Helen Shan. "It becomes strategic...
...poorly run campaign. But we must now factor in an even more potent quotient: the Obama effect--that quality whereby the more you get to know a politician, the more you like and trust him or her. This likability and perceived trustworthiness continue to grow over time. Across the board, Obama's ratings have steadily increased with key groups that had been cool toward him before. Likewise, regarding key questions--like, Whom do you trust to improve the economy, be Commander in Chief, handle taxes or handle the housing crisis?--Obama leads McCain in recent polls. Obama endures. He grows...
...Crimson came out fighting and got itself on the board within the first five minutes of the game. Notching his first career goal, junior blueliner Ian Tallett slammed an unassisted slapshot past RPI’s netminder Matthias Lange, which bounced off an Engineer’s stick into the back left corner of the net to give Harvard an early 1-0 lead...
Dear Yale Daily News Staff, I’d like to present you with a challenge. It’s something many members of the sports board have been suggesting for weeks, and now, I’m finally taking the time to put it into writing. We’re not just handing you to any challenge: not a challenge to some stupid drinking games The Crimson has already showed its superiority in (the YDN was clearly overmatched in last year’s pre-Game festivities); not a write-off or a readership challenge or some other journalism...