Essays on Ashby

The extraction of oil and natural gas has been a major industry in the United States for many years. Originally, this fuel was used simply to heat homes. With the advancement in technology, many different types of machinery, including electrical generators at power plants, automobiles and home appliances have been designed to operate using natural gas. In recent years, it has become more difficult to find new sources of natural gas. Hence, various companies have ventured in hydraulic fracking in the hope of producing more natural gas. However, the hydraulic fracking itself brings a host of environmental and health ...

The extraction of natural gas has been a common trend in the United States. With the advancement in technology, a lot of types of machinery, cars, and other equipment have been designed, and all of them require the use of oil and gas. Hence, various companies have ventured in hydraulic fracking in the hope of producing more oil and gas. However, the hydraulic fracking itself brings environmental and health dangers.

This paper seeks to answer the following research questions:

1. What is hydraulic fracking? 2. What are the environment and health dangers of hydraulic fracking? 3. What solutions can be offered to reduce or eliminate the risks of ...

Our contemporary business world urges people to shift from the individual completion of separate tasks and start collaborating with each other to succeed in meeting the far-reaching objectives of the company. People with different characters and moral values are put into the same workplace environment. They might sometimes be torn by the desire to boast in front of others with their personal achievements and, as a result, the outcome of the joint project or even the future of a company can be endangered. To avoid similar pitfalls, team members should be effectively managed by a team leader, who is ...

Geographical or Geospatial Information Systems (GIS) is a great way to represent data in a mapped format and analyze that data in a database environment. By providing a spatial analysis of suitably coded data, it is possible to provide striking, visual representations of data. These representations can often reveal patterns and trends that might otherwise have gone unnoticed without the use of GIS techniques (Nofal, 2012). GIS is defined as technological systems and databases that allow the recording of where, what, and when in a visual geographic or mapping format. GI systems were originally conceived as something separate from ...

Background and Significance of the Problem

Over the last two decades, lifestyle related illnesses have become a problematic issue for the healthcare sector. The calls for primary prevention mechanisms have achieved remarkable progress in minimizing the incidences. However, with an increasing population and the strain on the available resources to support health living, the prevalence rates have remained stagnant. Diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses that has been diagnosed substantially within the healthcare facilities (Chan & Woo, 2010). However, the emphasis on people to assume proactive roles in the management of health has also taken a significant stride (U.S. National Library of Medicine, ...

Risk Management at Old Mutual Group

Old Mutual risk management strategies are shaped by the potential impacts on the company's reputation, earnings, liquidity and future sustainability. They are strategic, and the companies closely monitor them. Owing to various strategic changes that the company underwent in the period under review, strategic execution risk is the principal risk facing Old Mutual. The company is faced with other principal risks including, economic situations in the country of operation, shifting credit risk across the group and currency devaluations. There are also other inherent potential risks owing to the changing customer needs, market exposures, liability insurance risks, and interest volatility. ...

Background

Over the last two decades, lifestyle related illnesses have become a problematic issue for the healthcare sector. The calls for primary prevention mechanisms have achieved remarkable progress sin minimizing the incidences. However, with an increasing population and the strain on the available resources to support health living, the prevalence has at some point remained stagnant. Diabetes is one of the most prevalent chronic illnesses that have been diagnosed substantially within the healthcare facilities (Chan & Woo, 2010). However, the emphasis on people to assume proactive roles in the management of health has also taken a significant stride. The justification for ...

Risk Management and the Global Banking Crisis: Lessons for Insurance Solvency Regulation by Simon Ashby

This journal article by Simon Ashby investigates the causes of the global banking crisis and the numerous lessons that needed to be learned from it to ensure future insurance regulation. In the paper, the author argues that the banking crisis was due to weak management policies and regulation of banks leading to problems such as poor risk management communication, over reliance on statistical risk models, and flawed compensation schemes. Due to these issues, there have been doubts expressed about the sustainability of insurance regulatory reforms. It is also recommended that more balanced insurance regulations should be implemented such that ...