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Corporate Failure

Lessons from collapse, crisis and recovery.

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Board Effectiveness

Building high-performing boards that challenge, support and add value.

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Corporate Governance

Practical governance beyond compliance.

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Risk Management

Identifying and managing strategic risks.

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Economics

Economic trends and their impact on business.

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Companies differ very much in their attitude to the importance of cash. If a business is private equity owned, highly geared (ie has a lot
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One mistake that non-financial people often make is to assume that financial people both know what they are talking about and understand all the financial
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Grant Thornton has just published a Report comparing the effect on corporate return on assets (ROA) of having women on an executive board across three countries (UK,
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There’s a saying in aviation: ‘Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you’. Risk management for a pilot is literally a matter
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The popular image of a pilot is of a dashing hero, who pulls off amazing feats of skill to save his aircraft from imminent disaster.
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The basic model of commercial aviation is a thin tube of highly pressurised metal being propelled at 600 miles per hour by inflammable fuel at
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What drives corporate governance regulation? Is it media focus, political pressure, or a need to ’do something’? Or is it sound analysis leading to thoughtful prescriptions?
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You’ve done your due diligence, you’re happy with the company and you’ve received a Letter of Appointment to become an NED. After a modest (it
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