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9780814404614

Managing Business Risk

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  • ISBN13:

    9780814404614

  • ISBN10:

    0814404618

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2000-11-01
  • Publisher: Amacom Books
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Summary

Presents the essentials every manager should know about risk management as it is evolving today. A tool for empowering managers to grasp key issues and trends, identify special risk management considerations, understand why a more substantial risk management efforts are needed today, and implement a risk management program. DLC: Risk management.

Author Biography

Peter C. Young is the E. W. Blanch Sr. Chair in Insurance at the University of St. Thomas Graduate School of Business.

Table of Contents

Preface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
An Introduction to the Subject of Risk Management
1(59)
Introduction
3(1)
A Brief History of Risk Management
4(8)
The Practice of Risk Management Today
12(3)
Organization Risk Management
15(10)
Contracts, Obligations, Commitments, and Agreements: Units of Analysis
25(1)
Judging Attitudes toward Risk
26(34)
Risk Assessment
60(63)
Introduction
65(1)
The Risk Assessment Framework
65(15)
Risk Identification Tools and Techniques
80(4)
Risk Analysis
84(8)
Risk Measurement
92(31)
Risk Control
123(46)
Introduction
125(1)
What Is Risk Control?
126(2)
Risk Avoidance
128(2)
Risk Transfer and Distribution
130(6)
Risk/Uncertainty Reduction
136(5)
Loss Prevention
141(3)
Loss Reduction
144(3)
Risk Neutralization
147(2)
Mandated Risk Control
149(20)
Asset Exposures to Risk
169(52)
Introduction
175(1)
Physical Asset Exposures
176(8)
Financial Asset Exposures
184(3)
Human Asset Exposures
187(6)
A Final Word About Asset Exposures
193(28)
Liability Exposures to Risk
221(49)
Introduction
224(1)
Legal Liability Exposures
225(2)
Legal Liability Problems and Issues
227(24)
Moral Responsibility
251(19)
Risk Financing Principles
270(51)
Introduction
275(1)
Risk Financing Defined
276(1)
The Risk Financing Grid
277(3)
The Retention/Transfer Demarcation Line
280(9)
Risk Financing Methods in Overview
289(13)
General Observations on Risk Financing
302(19)
Insurance
321(51)
Introduction
323(1)
Insurance in Overview
324(3)
The Insurance Contract
327(11)
Institutional Aspects of Insurance
338(34)
Risk Management Program Administration
372(57)
Introduction
376(1)
The Risk Management Mission
377(3)
Risk Management Program Design and Implementation
380(9)
Risk Communications
389(6)
Contract Management
395(8)
Program Audit and Review
403(1)
A Final Observation: Whither ORM?
403(26)
Suggested Readings 429(2)
Index 431

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