Risk management for a bond using bond put options

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…

Defining a Risk Management Framework for Climate Security

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Strategies for Culture. Culture for Development

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Strategic Levers to Enable E-Business Transformations

Established businesses are trying to take advantage of the opportunities and minimize the threats presented by e-business. Although e-business has emerged as a strategic imperative for many firms, v/e found that vision and strategy paled in importance compared to learning and implementation in the process of transforming to an e-business organization. Regardless of their strategic objectives…

Strategic Management in Construction

This book is aimed at students, graduates, and practitioners in all fields of the built environment. The secund edition has been subject tu a cunsiderable overhaul from the publication of tlie first edition in 1991. At that time the constriaction industry was in the midst of a severe recession and construction corporations were actively considering strategic issues. The professions were st…

Mapping Strategic Management Research

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Software Risk Management A Practical Guide

This document is a practical guide for integrating software risk management into a software project. The purpose of Risk Management is to identify, assess and control project risks. Identified risks are analyzed to determine their potential impact and likelihood of occurrence. Risk Management Plans are developed to document the project’s approach to risk management, risks, and decisions made …

Scenario analysis as a strategic management tool

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Teaching Strategic Management From A Christian Perspective

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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT: Problem structuring methods

This paper studies how soft Operational Research methods can be addressed at strategic management tasks. Applying these methodologies to strategic decisions in an organisation helps giving a broader view of the problematic situation is being faced, considering not only the company itself but also its environment. When managers deal with decision-making situations, they often find many diffe…

Management Accounting in Support of the Strategic Management Process

This paper reports on the findings of a CIMA-sponsored study into the extent to which management accounting supports the strategic management process

Disaster Risk Research and Assessment to promote Risk Reduction and Management.

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Communication Skills

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DISASTER RISK MANAGEMENT

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Challenges regarding risks and risk management: A review of Risk, Complexity…

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THE INTELLECTUAL EVOLUTION OF STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH …

The main purpose of this paper is to present an overview of the historical development of strategic management through a critical review of the most relevant theoretical proposals, and to consider its links to ethics and corporate social responsibility. From the very beginning of strategic management thought, attempts have been made to fuse ethical aspects, such as the values of senior manage…

PROCESS MANAGEMENT IN HEALTHCARE. SANT CAMIL HOSPITAL CASE STUDY

Nowadays due to the crisis, some government measures are aimed at reducing healthcare spending, affecting in some level or another the quality offered. Process management is said to be a useful tool for reducing healthcare costs by improving management without any additional economic investment. That is doing more with the same resources and without reducing the quality offered. In this study a…

Leadership and Strategic Management: Keys to Institutional Priorities and Pla…

Allocating and managing resources has always been an important cornerstone of institutional leadership. Institutional resources include financial, physical and human components. Even in the best of times, it is a challenge to do this effectively. In times of diminished and shrinking resources, the difficulties of distributing these precious commodities across the institution in the most equi…

The Strategic Management Practices in Academic Libraries in Kenya: The Case o…

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Controlling Costs and Changing Patient Care

With great speed and relatively little public awareness, a significant change has occurred in the way some decisions are made about a patient's medical care. Decisions that were once the exclusive province of the doctor and patient now may be examined in advance by an external reviewer—someone accountable to an employer, insurer, health maintenance organization (HMO), or other entity responsi…

Introduction to Fire Safety Management

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Quality standards for health care delivery and management in publicly oriente…

In 1999, the multidisciplinary Tavistock group prepared a generic statement of ethical principles to govern health care systems. This paper elaborates on these principles in two directions. First, it develops a set of quality standards, based on ethical principles, intended to regulate health care delivery and service management. Second, it focuses them on ‘publicly oriented’ (not necessari…

Risk management for an era of greater uncertainty

Accenture 2013 Global Risk Management Study Many organizations say they want to make better use of analytics, but it is apparent that there is still plenty of ground to cover here. High-performance risk management organizations are taking a focused approach to embed analytics into their management processes. They are doing so by, among other measures, improving data quality and developi…

Liquidity Risk Management: A comparative study between Conventional and Islam…

The role of Bank is diversified into financial intermediaries, facilitator and supporter. Yet the banks place themselves as a trusted body for the depositors, business associates and investors. Liquidity risk may arise from these diverse operations, as they are fully liable to make available, liquidity when stipulated by the third party. Additional efforts are required by Islamic banks for scal…

Risk Management Basics - ISO 31000 Standard

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Essentials of Strategic Management

“The Essentials of Strategic Management” provides us with a short, concise explanation of the most important concepts and techniques in strategic management. It is a rigorous explanation of many topics and concerns in strategic management

Expert Forum o Advanced Techniques on Stress Testing: Applications for Superv…

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E-Banking Management: Issues, Solutions, and Strategies

This book will explore issues critical for success in providing e-banking. The aim is to assist organizations in utilising the opportunities offered by this relatively new set of technologies. This book largely restricts itself to the organizational view of the problem, and is therefore primarily focused on organizational internal factors. External factors, such as the political or econ…

EFFECTS OF INTEREST RATE REGIME ON THE INTERMEDIARY ROLE OF BANKS IN ZIMBABWE

This study was carried out to establish the relevance of the current interest rate regime, in relation to the role played by the banking sector of intermediating between the surplus and deficit units of the Zimbabwean economy. The paper analyzed the status quo of the interest rate structure with the inflation relationship. It identified factors that contributed to the current position of fi…

HMCRP Report 6: Feasibility of a Consolidated Security Credential for Persons…

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