Language Leader is a general adult course that provides a thought-provoking and purposeful approach to learning English. With its engaging content and systematic skills work, it is the ideal course for students who want to express their ideas and develop their communicative abilities.
This book provides an as yet unavailable tool, the Stakeholder Balance Sheet, enabling managers within any organisation to unlock the DNA of the market place in which they operate and to measure their effectiveness in understanding their markets and all the key stakeholders operating within them. This simple tool provides self-testing checklists at the end of each chapter that enables managers to look at stakeholder-sensitive issues in the same way that they might scrutinise financial statements (hence it will not seem alien to most managers).
Credit rating agencies play a critical role in capital markets, guiding the asset allocation of institutional investors as private capital moves freely around the world in search of the best trade-off between risk and return. However, they have also been strongly criticised for failing to spot the Asian crisis in the early 1990s, the Enron, WorldCom and Parmalat collapses in the early 2000s and finally for their ratings of subprime-related structured finance instruments and their role in the current financial crisis.
If you thought negotiating deals and agreements is tough in today's business environment, then you should try doing so in prehistoric times! This book follows our two cavemen characters, Tork and Grunt, in their quest to ensure the survival of their tribe. Through the experiences of our two cavemen, you will learn everything you need to conduct a successful negotiation and reaching a win-win outcome. They show how conventional bargaining from opposing positions generally fails to reach a satisfactory conclusion and how it is important to identify all the issues affecting both parties.
Risk Management in Financial Institutions: Formulating Value Propositions
Risk managers are under pressure to compete in a competitive environment while solidly honouring their obligations and navigating their business safely toward the future. Paramount to their success is the ability to identify, formulate, assess and communicate value propositions to their stakeholders. This book presents valuable insights from principal researchers and practitioners from leading financial institutions. They provide many insightful ideas, concepts and methods to help shape or reshape value propositions.
