STOCKHOLM (AP) — The world’s tiger population could soon be extinct because of poaching, shrinking habitats and the use of tiger parts in Eastern medicine, environmental experts warned Friday. World Wildlife spokeswoman Marie von Zeipel said the world’s biggest wild cat is one of the most threatened species and could face extinction within 12 years. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Tiger Woods’
Tigers could face extinction in just 12 years
Posted in Humour, Sports, tagged Tiger Woods on October 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An Elin rant
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Elin, Tiger Woods on August 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Poor, poor Elin. I am not condoning Tiger’s actions or mocking her pain but I think she’s done much better than most divorced mothers, immigrants and ex-nannies. “I’ve been through hell,” she said. “It’s hard to think you have this life, and then all of a sudden — was it a lie? You’re struggling because it [...]
Insuring against an athlete being involved in a scandal
Posted in Risk management, Sports, tagged reputation risk, Tiger Woods on February 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
New York Times writes about companies insuring against scandals like the recent Tiger Woods events. In the wake of the Tiger Woods scandal, insurers are being inundated with inquiries from corporations seeking to protect their investments, their brands and even their sales when their celebrity endorsers suffer public embarrassment. Many companies take out death and [...]
Hofmann writes about Tiger Woods and ERM
Posted in ERM Basics, Sports, tagged enterprise risk, reputation risk, Tiger Woods on January 5, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Mark A Hoffman writes in Business Insurance about a few topics near and dear to me: Tiger Woods and enterprise risk management. Have a read at this article and then search for some of the Tiger Woods-related posts published at Riskczar.com recently. Cautionary tales of Tiger and ERM Posted On: Jan. 03, 2010 6:00 AM [...]
Reputation insurance
Posted in Risk management, Sports, tagged DeWitt Stern, insurance, reputation risk, Tiger Woods on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
DeWitt Stern, an insurance brokerage firm specializing in insurance products for the entertainment, arts, and advertising communities, will introduce “Reputation Risk Insurance” in 2010. According to the press release, the insurance will “compensate policy holders for lost sales, crisis management fees, lost advertising campaign expenses, and pre-committed and incurred endorsement fees.” While this proves once [...]
Tiger Woods sponsor index
Posted in Humour, Risk management, tagged Bloomberg, reputation risk, Tiger Woods on December 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In a December 9, 2009, story at Bloomberg.com, they describe that the Tiger Woods Sponsor Index made up of nine publicly traded companies linked to Woods. According to the story: “Accenture Plc, AT&T Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc., Electronic Arts Inc., LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA, Nike Inc., PepsiCo Inc. and Procter & Gamble Co. [...]
Twek illustrates the Tiger Woods reputation meter
Posted in Humour, Risk management, tagged reputation risk, risk, Tiger Woods on December 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Have a look at this graph posted by Twek.wordpress.com Twek illustrates Tiger Woods reputation meter
Tiger Woods reputation risk
Posted in ERM Basics, Humour, Risk management, tagged reputation risk, risk treatment, root cause, Tiger Woods on December 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Reputation is harmed when some other issue makes reputation an issue. It’s nice to add reputation risk to your risk register, but what are you going to do about it? What actions will you take to proactively avoid, transfer or mitigate your reputation or your brand? What could Tiger Woods’ risk manager have done to [...]
