Introduction With the changing business environment brought on by events such as the global financial crisis, gone are the days of focussing only on operational and tactical risk management. Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), a framework for a business to assess its overall exposure to risk (both threats and opportunities), and hence its ability to make timely and well informed decisions…
The field of business policy/strategic management has offered a variety of frameworks and concepts during the last half century, many aimed at “taking business and its management seriously.” Research conferences and resulting books and journals have provided intellectual momentum, augmented by stimulation from challenges to “conventional wisdom” experienced in the global market. Almost …
Abstract: It is important to identify, measure, analyze and monitor risks such that risks can be properly managed with appropriate risk management decisions and actions to be taken on a timely basis. This paper describes ways to identify and measure various types of risks for management purpose. It suggests methods that can be used to report and/or integrate measurements of different types…
Managing is one of the most important human activities. From the time human beings began forming social organizations to accomplish aims and objectives they could not accomplish as individuals, managing has been essential to ensure the coordination of individual efforts. As society continuously relied on group effort, and as many organized groups have become large, the task of managers has…
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: PBGC needs to designate a risk management officer to coordinate the risk management efforts of the Corporation. Best practices and lessons learned can be adopted from other organizations.
This project was commissioned by COSO, which is dedicated to providing thought leadership through the development of comprehensive frameworks and guidance on enterprise risk management, internal control, and fraud deterrence designed to improve organizational performance and governance and to reduce the extent of fraud in organizations. COSO is a private sector initiative, jointly sponsored…
This paper was first written when I was head of Strategic Planning & Manage-ment Services at Educational Testing Service (ETS). It examines the words and terms making up its title and presents them in a way intended to make them useful tools for those charged with related duties
In December 2012, the Economist Intelligence Unit carried out a global survey on behalf of KPMG International. This survey gathered data from 1,092 respondents around the world in a closed-ended online questionnaire. All were C-level executives: 28 percent were Chief Executive Officers or equivalent and 18 percent were Chief Financial Officers, the two largest groups. Five percent were Chief Ri…
Abstract This paper focuses on the defining the role of CRO in corporate governance and to show the interrelation between the way of CRO subordination and performance of investment bank. The sample consists of observations over a period of 2011 for 29 biggest investment banks (by amount of assets) implementing world-wide investment activity. The banks are originated in the USA (8), Eastern …
Compensation is a key element of the employment relationship and, in addition to being the single greatest operating cost for many organizations, it has been advocated by some recently as a tool for enhancing organizational performance and sustained competitiveness. Contemporary approaches to compensation emphasize the importance of aligning employee behaviors to the strategic direction of …
This handbook has been organized in three main sections. Section I provides guidance on the processes which comprise strategic management. These are: pre-planning, strategic planning, deployment, implementation, and measurement and evaluation. A model is presented in An Introduction to Strategic Management and this model is repeated in each chapter, highlighting the process being addressed.
In today's uncertain business environment, managing a life insurance company requires a much higher caliber of financial management than in the past. A company must be in a position to control its own destiny, rather than having its fate dictated by outside forces. This paper outlines a framework for managing life insurance company surplus. Within this framework, a company can assess the a…
This paper suggests that due to the changing nature of the firm, viewing shareholders as the sole residual claimants is an increasingly tenuous description of the actual relationships among a corporation’s various stakeholders. Thus, a shareholder wealth perspective is increasingly unsatisfactory for accurately answering the two fundamental questions concerning the theory of the firm: that of…
Strategic planning and related strategic management elements have become ubiquitous practices at all levels of U.S. government and many nonprofit organizations over the past 25 years. The authors review strategic planning and management research over that time period using the premises of practice theory to guide the discussion. The review is organized according to 10 research directions propos…
This paper discusses the design characteristics management accounting systems should have to be useful for strategic planning and control and provides brief introductions to strategic variance analysis and profit-linked performance measurement models. It shows two multi-period, multi-product models (Banker, Chang and Majumdar 1993; Banker and Johnston 1989) are specified, can be related to Port…
Review of the strategy literature indicates there has been five phases in the evolution of the field since World War II. The paradigm was at its peak in the 1970s with the strategic planning phase, however, prescriptive approaches to strategy formulation and implementation were demonstrated to be inadequate in this period in the face of environmental uncertainty. In the 1980s the field evol…
This article tries to identify the crucial dimensions of strategic management in universities. To do so, the author looks at some practical cases of successful strategic decisionmaking in European universities. This case study approach is motivated by the conviction that in universities strategic management should be done with a permanent eye on their specific organisational environment ra…
This paper studies a strategy that minimizes the risk of a position in a zero coupon bond by buying a percentage of a put option, subject to a fixed budget available for hedging. We consider two popular risk measures: Value-at-Risk(VaR) and Tail Value-at-Risk (TVaR). We elaborate a formula for determining the optimal strike price for this put option in case of a Hull-White stochastic interes…
The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (“UNJSPF”) administers a diverse and complex international public pension system based on a fully funded defined-benefit pension scheme. In 2009, annual pension benefits payments amounting to 1.9 billion USD dollars were paid in 15 currencies, there were some 110,000 participants and 60,000 pensioners/ beneficiaries residing and/or working in …