An authoritative global framework for understanding and benchmarking risks related to a company's governance policies and practices Effective corporate governance has long been viewed as essential for healthy capital markets. Careless and corrupt governance practices, however, have thrust the governance debate from the shadows to the forefront, and corporate governance can now be recognized as a stand-alone risk factor. Many market participants now question whether true self-governance is possible or even realistic in today's era of razor-thin profit margins and bloated executive paychecks. The Standard &amp; Poor's Handbook of Governance &amp; Risk provides a solid conceptual grounding on the principal themes of governance in today's global corporate arena. Straightforward and authoritative, with compelling insights into today's key micro (internal) and macro (external) corporate governance issues, this all-encompassing book: <ul>
<li>Provides a wide-ranging discussion of methodologies and criteria relating to corporate governance analysis </li>
<li>Brings together diverse country environments in a common analytical framework </li>
<li>Seamlessly links up-to-date conceptual and theoretical thinking about governance to practical performance issues </li>
<li>Explores broader themes of governance--sustainable development, directors and officers insurance, behavioral aspects, and approaches to governance in managed funds and governments. </li>
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Highly publicized collapses in governance have replaced calm and complacency with vigilance and even stridence, often obscuring valuable and necessary aspects of governance that are long-overdue for discussion and review. The Standard &amp; Poor's Handbook of Governance &amp; Risk presents a balanced and rational approach to one of today's most emotional topics, and outlines an analytical model for both evaluating the governance practices of individual corporations and protecting yourself or your organization from the effects of incomplete, inaccurate, and potentially misguiding practices.

Governance and Risk

Business & Money

Dallas, George

Economics

McGraw=Hill

In narrative history format, a historian explores the famous Vienna Congress that took place in Europe in 1815 and brought together such characters as Tsar Alexander, Wellington, Metternich, and even Napoleon. 15,000 first printing.

The Final Act: The Roads to Waterloo

History

Americas

Henry Holt and Co.

The first introductory practical guide of its kind, this book brings together principles of corporate governance, investor stewardship and enterprise sustainability in the context of institutional investment. 
Stewardship codes are developing in diverse markets to provide a framework for responsible institutional investment practices and fiduciary duties for beneficiaries. While codes provide a starting point, the application of stewardship in practical terms can be challenging for many institutional investors. Written by two well-known corporate governance experts, George Dallas and Mike Lubrano, and based on the ICGN training course on stewardship that they developed, this book gives needed clarity, rigor and guidance to practitioners about what we know―and don't know―about stewardship, governance and sustainability. It explores the theoretical foundations of stewardship, linking these to day-to-day decision-making and providing real-life examples and practical tools to evaluate issues that arise for companies from an environmental, social and governance perspective and generate ideas about how to make investor stewardship a practical reality in similar cases. 
Investor stewardship and ESG professionals, portfolio managers, senior managers, regulators and finance students will appreciate this unique guide to developing, refining and operationalising investor stewardship capabilities in line with the respected and internationally recognised ICGN policy framework.

Governance, Stewardship and Sustainability: Theory, Practice and Evidence

Lubrano, Mike

Business Culture

Routledge

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT129865Signed on p.43: Civis, i.e. Sir George Dallas, Bart.London : printed for J. Bell, 1798. 52p. ; 8°

A second letter to the Earl of Moira on the commercial situation of Ireland. By the author of A letter to his lordship in defence of the conduct of His Majesty's ministers and of the army in Ireland.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

A letter to the Earl of Moira, in defence of the conduct of His Majesty's ministers, and of the army in Ireland.

Speech of George Dallas, Esq. member of the committee appointed by the British inhabitants residing in Bengal, ... as delivered by him at a meeting ... in Calcutta, on the 25th of July, 1785.

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

Thoughts upon our present situation, with remarks upon the policy of a war with France. Second edition, with a postcript [sic].

A Biograhical Memoir of the Late Sir Peter Parker: Baronet, Captain of His Majesty's Ship Menelaus, of 38 Guns, Killed in Action While Storming the ... On the Thirty-First of August, 1814

Nabu Press

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T050248 Anonymous. By Sir George Dallas. London : printed for John Stockdale, 1793. 63,[1]p. ; 8°

Thoughts upon our present situation, with remarks upon the policy of a war with France.

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