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Human Capital and Risk Management: Two Areas that Will Help Your Company Profit During the Economic Recovery
The economic turn-around is inevitable. Planning your firm's human capital and risk management strategies now will help you prepare to profit upon its arrival

Looking back on the events of the past 12 months—auto giants filing for bankruptcy, tax-payer-funded bailouts, unemployment climbing into the double digits—it is difficult to take signs of an economic recovery seriously. And to contemplate profiting from it? That’s an even bigger stretch.

Aerospace & Aviation

Aerospace & Aviation

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world
After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger...
Managing and Insuring Airline Industry Risk in Turbulent Times
Airlines continue to face big challenges. But risk doesn’t have to ground the industry
The last thing the airline industry wants is a bumpy ride. But that's exactly what's happened in the last decade, as the airline insurance market has experienced major turbulence. In the immediate aftermath of 9/11...
Automotive

Automotive

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
Public Trust, Employee Trust: Aon One Explores Enterprise Reputation at Risk
Aon's Risk Consulting executives offer an exclusive blueprint for businesses in skeptical times
In the 1950s, The Big Boss was a tough-as-nails leader, willing to roll up his sleeves and rub elbows with workers on the assembly line to get things done. That gave way to the Ivory Tower Elite in the 1970s and '80s,...
The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world
After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger...
Construction Services

Construction Services

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
Business Growth in Africa
A world of opportunity awaits enterprising organizations in this promising emerging market
Lions and lines. In the Western world, the mere mention of the word "Africa" conjures up two enduring images: lions, as in beasts roaming an unspoiled savannah; and lines, unending queues of silent, starving people,...
The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world
After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger...
Entertainment

Entertainment

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
Global Publisher Reed Elsevier Turns to Aon for Efficient Risk Management Solutions
The leading global publisher takes an action-oriented, scientific approach using RiskConsole
Just as astronomers tell us that our universe is expanding, the same can be said of risk profiles for companies in all industries. Take Reed Elsevier, a large global publisher of science and health information, for...
The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world
After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger...
Financial Institutions

Financial Institutions

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
Collaborating on an Award-Winning HR Processes
The Hartford transforms its human resources business process to great acclaim
In September 2009, The Hartford began its search for a new Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing (HR BPO) provider. No stranger to outsourcing, Joan Trantolo, vice president of HR Operations at The Hartford, took...
East Africa: The Core of the Continent's Growth
Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi comprise the next possible regional powerhouse
While many Western countries have been suffering through a deep and ongoing recession, an untold success story has quietly been playing out elsewhere across the globe. The economies of East Africa—particularly Rwanda,...
Food System, Agribusiness & Beverage

Food System, Agribusiness & Beverage

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
Taking a Fluid Approach to Risk Management
Parmalat homogenizes risk management process using today's most powerful software tool
Italian firm Parmalat is one of the world's leading dairy companies. With a direct presence in 16 countries and license agreements to distribute its brands in an additional nine, the company has 14,000 employees...
6 Keys to Feeding the World
Some of the planet's hungriest places soon will be among the most crowded, too. Here's what they need to do now
In order to feed a growing global population, experts say, food production must be ramped up in areas that have ample farmland, such as Brazil, Argentina, Russia, China and elsewhere across Asia. To increase output,...
Healthcare

Health Care

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
The Riskiest—Costliest—Health Conditions
Eight risks and behaviors that drive up health care and productivity costs for businesses around the world—and the one key to taking control
It's a variation on the old "for want of a nail, the kingdom was lost" tale. And it has implications for every company in the world.
Population Growth: Business Risks and Opportunities
As the number of people occupying the planet continues to rise, there are implications organizations of all sizes must consider
Would you get nine or 10 "yes" replies? Probably. And you can thank a butterfly scientist in California for this commonly held belief. Paul Ehrlich—today a professor of population studies at Stanford—almost single-...
Marine

Marine

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world
After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger...
Walk in Your Customer's Shoes: Keys to Developing a Client-Centric Approach to Business
Three steps that will help you develop employees who see the world from the perspective of those who do business with your company
The cost of winning new clients—including advertising, price promotions and other incentives—is estimated at five times the cost of retaining existing ones. A statistic like that leaves no doubt as to how...
Natural Resources

Natural Resources

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
Rwanda: an African Success
The country's remarkable growth and development offers a road map to progress for neighboring nations
No country epitomizes the changes in Africa more than Rwanda. It has embraced major political and economic reforms. The World Bank now rates the country as one of the world's 10 most-improved economies. Agriculture is...
East Africa: The Core of the Continent's Growth
Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi comprise the next possible regional powerhouse
While many Western countries have been suffering through a deep and ongoing recession, an untold success story has quietly been playing out elsewhere across the globe. The economies of East Africa—particularly Rwanda,...
Pharmaceutical/Chemical

Pharmaceutical/Chemical

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
Public Trust, Employee Trust: Aon One Explores Enterprise Reputation at Risk
Aon's Risk Consulting executives offer an exclusive blueprint for businesses in skeptical times
In the 1950s, The Big Boss was a tough-as-nails leader, willing to roll up his sleeves and rub elbows with workers on the assembly line to get things done. That gave way to the Ivory Tower Elite in the 1970s and '80s,...
The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world
After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger...
Retail Trade

Retail Trade

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world
After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger...
Embracing Corporate Social Responsibility Will Allow Businesses to Do Well by Doing Good
Amid financial turmoil and global recession, a new socially responsible approach is needed for companies to survive and prosper
By any yardstick, 2008 will be remembered as a shocking year, and it may come to be seen as a turning point in world economic development. Ill-advised mortgage lending strategies in the U.S. housing market and...
Technology & Telecommunications

Technology & Telecommunications

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
Rwanda: an African Success
The country's remarkable growth and development offers a road map to progress for neighboring nations
No country epitomizes the changes in Africa more than Rwanda. It has embraced major political and economic reforms. The World Bank now rates the country as one of the world's 10 most-improved economies. Agriculture is...
East Africa: The Core of the Continent's Growth
Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Burundi comprise the next possible regional powerhouse
While many Western countries have been suffering through a deep and ongoing recession, an untold success story has quietly been playing out elsewhere across the globe. The economies of East Africa—particularly Rwanda,...
Trucking

Trucking

Putting Big Data to Work
Collecting information is one thing; gaining insights from it is everything
Humankind has a significant advantage over the rest of the natural world. We have highly developed brains, build powerful tools and, perhaps most importantly, as Carl Sagan put it, we long ago created an intellectual...
The Next 10 Years
It’s a new decade. As you plan for growth, consider three major challenges—ones already affecting business around the world
After the triumphant 1990s, the first decade of the 21st century reminded everyone of the dangers that sneaked up behind globalization and prosperity. SARS and swine flu were scary illustrations of how quickly danger...
Walk in Your Customer's Shoes: Keys to Developing a Client-Centric Approach to Business
Three steps that will help you develop employees who see the world from the perspective of those who do business with your company
The cost of winning new clients—including advertising, price promotions and other incentives—is estimated at five times the cost of retaining existing ones. A statistic like that leaves no doubt as to how...