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“All of our working lives we have heard the mantra, ‘a reputation lost is never regained.’ Still, the firms we work for, admire and invest in seem to take costly reputation hits all too often. Everyone interested in managing, regulating or investing in public firms will find Nir Kossovsky’s book a wonderful read through reputations won, lost and regained over the last 20 years. This is the first book which goes beyond platitudes to explain how to spot value-destroying reputation risk and how to manage it or live with its consequences. Couldn't be more timely.” —Tom Skwarek, Managing Director/Structuring and Solutions Group, Unicredit Bank AG; previously Managing Director/Corporate Strategic Solutions, Swiss Re. “There are fiduciary reasons why corporate directors would benefit from reading this book. There is also a personal benefit. The collapse of a company’s reputation can stain the personal reputation of its directors.” —George Miles, Member of the Board of Directors, AIG, EQT, Harley Davidson, HFF, and Wesco. “Nir Kossovsky has written a gripping tale, first educating the reader by distinguishing between corporate branding and reputation, then alarming us with case histories of mismanagement of corporate reputational crises, and finally reassuring all with a unique solution, i.e., insuring against the risk of reputational loss.” —John H. Bennett, Partner, Global Brand Positioning, previously Chief Marketing Officer, Visa, Inc. “While directors know reputation is important, it often is treated as a vague ‘good’ until something bad happens. Nir Kossovsky does a great job, with many examples, of connecting reputation to stock price and to behaviors, before and after crises. If you are a director, a senior manager, or a regulator, you should read this book and remember the lessons it offers. There is no office which will restore reputation, but careful planning and quick response, as Nir points out, can make a big difference.” —Herbert S. Winokur, Jr., former chairman on Enron’s Board Finance Committee and a director of many for-profits and non-profits A company that takes a hit to its reputation—BP after the Gulf oil spill, Barclays after fiddling LIBOR, News Corp after the phone hacking scandal—enters a world of grief: market value falls along with employee morale, regulatory scrutiny increases, and customers defect and boycott. Reputation, Stock Price, and You: Why the Market Rewards Some Companies and Punishes Others shows how a company’s reputation is created and how reputational value impacts corporate P&L and the personal finances of its many stakeholders. Better yet, it shows what you can do to profit from, increase, protect, monitor, evaluate, restore, and even insure reputational value. If your job, bonus, options, salary, or investments depend on the stock price of a public company—or on the sales, profitability, or value of a private company—you need to read this book to understand the concrete steps you can take to improve your firm’s reputation, reduce risks to its finances and industry standing, and reap the highest reputational dividends. Using dozens of case studies, Reputation, Stock Price, and You: Explains how stakeholders, and their expectations, both shape and are shaped by a company’s reputation Describes how reputations for ethics, innovation, good governance, quality, safety, sustainability, and security are created and lost Explains why both corporate and individual stakeholder behavior affect reputational value Shows how you can influence the expectations and behaviors of stakeholders, which in turn can improve corporate finances, reduce operational risk, and increase stock price or market value Provides sensitive tools for tracking and predicting stock price as a function of reputational value metrics The majority of directors at U.S. public companies now count reputation as their firm’s #1 concern, and with good reason. A firm with a superior reputation gains many benefits: Customers are more willing to pay higher prices, vendors and employees offer better terms for their services, creditors and equity investors offer better terms for capital, and regulators tend to be more forgiving. This book shows how to achieve and sustain a stellar reputation and how to convert it into its tangible form: reputational value.

Corporate image. --- Corporations --- Stocks. --- Valuation.

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When two or more systems of property ownership or rights come together, issues and even conflicts are bound to surface. In many parts of the world, particularly in developing countries, this is becoming a larger problem, while in other parts of the world the conflicting viewpoints have long co-existed, but reparation of past conflicts has more recently become a pressing matter. Sponsored by the American Real Estate Society (ARES), Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation addresses a wide variety of timely issues relating to property ownership, rights, and use, including: ancestral burial, historical record of occupancy, treaty implementation problems, eminent domain, the effects of large governmental change, financing projects under formal and informal title or deed document systems, exclusive ownership vs. non-exclusive use rights, public land ownership, tribal or family land claims, insurgency and war, legal systems of ownership, prior government expropriation of lands, moral obligation to indigenous peoples, colonial occupation, and common land leases. These issues can also be broadly grouped into topics, such as conflict between indigenous and western property rights, communal land ownership, land transfer by force, legacy issues related to past colonization and apartheid, and metaphysical/indigenous land value. Covering contemporary practices around the world, this volume features research from an international array of authors, exploring the economic, demographic, political, legal, and cultural dimensions of property ownership—and the conflicts that emerge when systems clash. Including in-depth case studies and policy recommendations, this volume will be a valuable resource for government leaders and economic policymakers, urban planners and property developers, advocates of indigenous people’s rights, lenders, and other industry professionals. "Indigenous Peoples and Real Estate Valuation is a great beginning for a more methodological way of understanding and being able to deal with people’s right to land. The study is important in that it clarifies that the majority of the people of the world do not adhere to the western method of land rights, thus raising the question: Who is right? Is it the indigenous people of the world or the "deeded" people of the western world? If one steps back a bit from all this and realizes that this world was created for your use and we actually leave this world with nothing, even if we owned large parcels of land, then we might realize that we need to learn from the different indigenous peoples of the world how to use this land and leave it for future generations." Aly Karam School of Architecture and Planning University of the Witwatersrand.

Economics/Management Science. --- Development Economics. --- Economic Growth. --- Public Finance & Economics. --- Economics. --- Endogenous growth (Economics). --- Finance. --- Economie politique --- Croissance endogène (Economie politique) --- Finances --- Indigenous peoples -- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Real property -- Valuation. --- Real property. --- Law, General & Comparative --- Real Estate, Housing & Land Use --- Economic Theory --- Business & Economics --- Law, Politics & Government --- Real property --- Indigenous peoples --- Valuation. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Land valuation --- Real estate appraisal --- Valuation of land --- Cadastral surveys --- Catastral surveys --- Freehold --- Limitations (Law) --- Property, Real --- Real estate --- Real estate law --- Realty --- Law and legislation --- Business. --- Management science. --- Public finance. --- Development economics. --- Economic growth. --- Business and Management. --- Business and Management, general. --- Public Economics. --- Property --- Rent --- Cameralistics --- Public finance --- Currency question --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Economic policy --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Economic development --- Trade --- Management --- Commerce --- Industrial management --- Public finances --- Quantitative business analysis --- Problem solving --- Operations research --- Statistical decision

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It is a challenging task to read the balance sheet of an insurance company. This derives from the fact that different positions are often measured by different yardsticks. Assets, for example, are mostly valued at market prices whereas liabilities are often measured by established actuarial methods. However, there is a general agreement that the balance sheet of an insurance company should be measured in a consistent way. Market-Consistent Actuarial Valuation presents powerful methods to measure liabilities and assets in a consistent way. The mathematical framework that leads to market-consistent values for insurance liabilities is explained in detail by the authors. Topics covered are stochastic discounting with deflators, valuation portfolio in life and non-life insurance, probability distortions, asset and liability management, financial risks, insurance technical risks, and solvency.

Actuarial science --- Insurance --- Actuariat --- Finance --- AA / International- internationaal --- 368.00 --- 368 --- Theorieën over verzekeringen. Actuariële wetenschappen. --- Verzekeringswezen --- 368 Verzekeringswezen --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVMATHE LIVSTATI SPRINGER-B --- Insurance companies --- Life insurance --- Risk (Insurance) --- Business mathematics --- Companies, Insurance --- Insurance agencies --- Insurance carriers --- Insurers --- Financial institutions --- Valuation --- Mathematics --- Theorieën over verzekeringen. Actuariële wetenschappen --- Risk

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A fresh approach to the theory of design, this book will synthesizes planning, design and ecology and shows a new view of where design can go. This heavily illustrated book links current theory with case studies from the US, Canada, Europe and Australasia.

Assessment [Landscape ] --- Conception du paysage ecologique --- Conception écologique du paysage --- Ecological landscape design --- Ecologisch landschapsontwerp --- Environmental perception --- Evaluation du paysage --- Landscape assessment --- Landscape design [Ecological ] --- Landscape evaluation --- Landscape perception --- Landschapsevaluatie --- Landschapsontwerp [Ecologisch ] --- Paysage [Conception écologique du ] --- Paysage [Perception du ] --- Paysage--Evaluation --- Perception [Landscape ] --- Perception du paysage --- Regional planning --- Écologie du paysage --- Paysage --- Aménagement du territoire --- Environmental aspects --- Évaluation --- Aspect environnemental --- Landschappen --- Ecological landscape design. --- Landscape assessment. --- Geografie --- Environmental aspects. --- Landschapskunde --- Perceptie en Beleving. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Évaluation. --- Aspect environnemental. --- Écologie du paysage. --- Aménagement du territoire --- Évaluation.