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• A University of Reading lecture has won a prestigious risk management award.

  - 2006-12-07

  M2 PRESSWIRE-7 December 2006-University of Reading: A University of Reading lecture has won a prestigious risk management award.C1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07122006 Professor Carol Alexander, Chair of Risk Management and Director of Research at the ICMA Centre business school, has won...

  Tags: FINANCE, SECURITY, Strategy, University of Reading

• The Conceptual Framework For Business Process Innovation

  BNET - 2006-11-24

  This paper outlines the conceptual framework for a research program on Business Process Innovation based on advanced Enterprise Information Systems in a global supply chain context. The paper has argued that most industrial supply chains are globally scattered and nearly every business relies on their Enterprise Information Systems ES for...

  Tags: Innovation, Business Process, Supply Chain, University Of Reading, Operational Planning, Supply Chain Management (SCM), Leadership, Strategy, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software, Management

• First-time study examines cocoa.(NEWS)

  - 2005-09-01

  LONDON -- A research project between the Dutch government and a UK-based industry group aims to find ways to improve cocoa production and reduce the number of pests and diseases that destroy about one third of the world crop annually. The project, to...

  Tags: gene, Strategy, University of Reading

• The Present and Future of Financial Risk Management

  BNET - 2004-02-20

  Current research on financial risk management applications of econometrics centers on the accurate assessment of individual market and credit risks with relatively little theoretical or applied econometric research on other types of risk, aggregation risk, data incompleteness and optimal risk control. The paper reveals that consideration of the model risk...

  Tags: Financial, Aggregation, Risk Management, University Of Reading, Financial Planning, Strategy, Financial Accounting, Financial Services, Security, Finance, Management

• Joint announcement by DEFRA, The Scottish Executive and The Welsh Assembly; Government merger of Apple & Pear Research Council and Horticultural Development Council.

  - 2002-08-23

  M2 PRESSWIRE-23 August 2002-UK Government: Joint announcement by DEFRA, The Scottish Executive and The Welsh Assembly; Government merger of Apple & Pear Research Council and Horticultural Development Council C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:08232002 Ministers have agreed that the Apple...

  Tags: Apple Inc., council, FINANCE, Investment, merger, Strategy, University of Reading

• The Relationship Between Size, Diversification and Risk

  BNET - 2001-05-16

  Property portfolio diversification takes many forms, most of which can be associated with asset size. This paper tests the empirical relationship between property portfolio size, diversification, and risk, in Institutional portfolios in the UK, during the period from 1989 to 1999 to determine which of these two characterizations is more...

  Tags: Diversification, University Of Reading, Property Portfolio Diversification, Strategy, Asset Management, Security, Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations

• Innovation Clusters: Key Concepts

  BNET - 2000-05-08

  This paper widens the analysis of agglomeration and innovation and suggests that however significant and interesting New Industrial Districts and Innovative Milieux are they do not exhaust the universe of discourse under consideration with regard to innovative cluster areas. In considering the relationship between agglomeration and innovation, this paper suggests...

  Tags: Innovation, University Of Reading, Leadership, Strategy, Management