Crisis Management

Risk perception isn't what it used to be. Ask the swelling ranks of Canadian junior oil and gas companies braving high-risk venues like Sudan, Iraq and even Yemen.

Want to survive the cut-throat competition that becomes increasingly unforgiving with every passing day? Just incorporate social media into your business promotional strategy!

The parliament of Greece is going to start discussions on the austerity measures which the European Union and the IMF want to pass before distributing the next installment of the bailout programme.

Sexual harassment claims can pop up overnight. The best thing is to be prepared for that eventuality and initiate action against it when it happens.

Selling your business can be hard, especially after investing so much money, time, and energy on building it up. If you do it right, you win; if you do it wrong, you lose. Selling a business is a delicate balancing act, and takes time.

Surveys indicate that 50 percent women and 20 percent men feel that they have been sexually harassed in the workplace. Both federal laws and many state laws treat sexual harassment as a form of sexual discrimination. In such a workplace set-up, small businesses would do well to have a sexual harassment policy. Without such a policy, businesses get exposed to unfortunate consequences when sexual harassment happens at the workplace. Some of the consequences include litigation, soiled reputation, and even the business going bust.

Sony seems to have landed in troubled water. While on one side it is dealing user with the information theft at its online gaming network, on the other Sony is being criticized for not disclosing the news about theft.

Washington, November 11 -- Connecticut Democrat and Senator Christopher Dodd unveiled a reform bill on Tuesday that will impose higher capital requirements on financial institutions.

Unforeseen emergencies are hard to tackle and not being financially prepared can be devastating. Assuming that all your traditional financial resources have been depleted, here are a few moves you can make to accumulate funds to handle such a scenario.

If you've been investing the past couple of years, you don't need to be
told that risk matters now more than ever. After all, in 2007, 28,322
businesses filed for bankruptcy, while 14,319 filed in the first
quarter of 2009 alone.