AHC Group Newsletter Archive
Issue: November 2005
Answering Public Expectations Since 1981
Read Dr. Bruce Piasecki's latest commentary published in today's Christian Science Monitor on the importance of Smart Products and how they will shape tomorrow's world.
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Announcing:
Corporate Strategy Today — Issue XI
The premiere biennial briefing on business strategy and corporate governance providing applied intelligence by business leaders for business leaders.
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"Money Matters: Financial Risk, Stock Valuation Models, and the Emergence of Rating Organizations"
What is the state of play linking financial risk and stock valuation with a firm's path of growth? Over the last 3 years the AHC Group has financed a set of "Money Matters" workshops with the key rating groups of the world — at a number of our clients and corporate affiliates request. Here in one place we now offer you the best findings and thinkers from these workshops.
Issue XI release date: October 15, 2005
Sample article:
CEO Table by Alan Banks, CEO of LoSoNoCo bio-fuels company and former CEO of Fitch CoreRatings and former UBS banker.
Featured Articles
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Better Governance: To Avoid Risk or to Create Value?
By George Dallas, MD and Head of Governance, Standard and Poor's
Dallas shows that corporate governance should not be looked at as an external discipline that imposes costs, but rather as an internal discipline that adds value: It is about creating a corporate culture that embodies and implements core values and principles that enhance the quality and sustainability of a firm's future performance. He links governance in to corporate social responsibility by showing that having strong relationships with a broad base of non-financial stakeholders ultimately determines a company's ability to put profitable product into the marketplace.
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Leveraging Intangible Assets: How a Rating Can Help Measure and Communicate Performance
By Dr. Helena Barton, Business Development Manager (USA), DNV/CoreRatings
Dr. Barton points out that intangibles such as reputation, brand value, goodwill, intellectual capital, innovative capacity, culture, management, staff and strategy account for 70% to 95% of market value. She gives practical advice on how companies can analyze and manage that intangible value.
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The Rising Tide of Shareholder Activism
By Meg Voorhes, Director of Social Issues Services, Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)
Meg Voorhes looks at how some of these issues are beginning to generate increased shareholder activism both, as evidenced through the number and range of shareholder resolutions at companyies' AGMs.
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Moving from Values to Value
By Paul Hilton, Social Marketing Director, The Calvert Group
Paul Hilton looks at how investors employ "value-based" analysis to identify companies that have lower risks together with a positive leverage to profit opportunities. Paul points out the difficulty in finding consistent, quality information upon which to make these judgments and argues for a standardized approach if not standardized reporting.
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Risk, Fiduciary Responsibility and "Regulatory Insulation"
By Gil Friend, President & CEO, Natural Logic, Inc.
Gil shows us how looking at the world through an ecological lens can help companies to identify early key future issues and position their products ahead of the trend. He also shows how companies can massively improve the efficiency of their operations, which across leading US companies is less than 2% in that 94% of their inputs do not end up in the final products.
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Moving from Senile to Social Capitalism
By Bruce Piasecki, President and Founder, AHC Group, Inc.
Multinational corporations today shoulder an increasing share of social functions once reserved for governments or religion. A key shift now occurring within corporations is a more socially responsible way of defining our social needs, rather then stimulating perceived social needs for products — fast food, for example — that actually exploit short-term impulses at the expense of long-term sustainability.
This is an excerpt from Piasecki's latest sixth book, World Inc., which examines a new stream within the turbulent waters of advanced capitalism — social response product development (SRPD).
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Why has the AHC Group offered this special finance monograph, and our related Financial Risk and Shareholder Value Workshops?
- After Enron and Worldcom, the role of these third-party rating groups has risen rapidly in consequence.
- For 25 years, we have been known to publish "state-of-play" trustworthy analysis of key trends to management on corporate strategy.
- Current energy and oil price volatility, and mounting environmental checks regarding carbon trading, climate change, brand positions, and the future of oil reserves make this monograph's family of related articles both timely and worthy to share with your officers, top operating people, IR staff, and your EHS executives.
Contact Marykay Greenfield at marykay@ahcgroup.com or call 518.583.9615 if you'd like us to mail you a hard copy for only $100. This designed copy is visually appealing for Board use and leadership council. You may also contact Marykay if you are a Corporate Affiliate Member and would like your gratis membership copy.
History
Since 2001, Corporate Strategy Today has been published by AHC Group with the intent of providing today's business and government leaders with a forum of ideas, approaches, and tested methodologies to help organizations confront a variety of matters that continue to be of paramount importance to maintaining the viability and profitability of companies in the 21st century.
"Bridging the financial and strategy gaps to find commonsense hidden market value."
— Dr. Bruce Piasecki
Educational/Leadership Benchmarking Workshops
Corporate Strategy Today is the public briefings of the 15-year-old AHC Leadership Benchmarking and EHS Educational Workshop Series, "Achieving Results."
This series is an ongoing network of over 38 leading companies who are actively benchmarking and advancing best practices in Corporate Governance, Financial and Shareholder Value, Emerging Energy and Environmental Issues, and Risk Reduction/Site Remediation.
Visit the AHC Group EHS Leadership Workshop pages for more on the logic of this premiere network.
Enrollment for the Phoenix, AZ, January 26-27, 2006 inclusive 2-day workshop series is $1,995 for individual observers. Corporate affiliate members may send up to 3 attendees each session as part of their annual membership.
Who Should Attend?
- Financial or investment relations representatives
- Top Operating officers
- Site Remediation Heads and Risk Reduction Executives
- Vice Presidents of Manufacturing, Quality, and Delivery
- CEOs (5 now attending twice a year)
- CFOs (several present each year)
- COOs (8 now attending twice a year)
- Key EHS Managers and Officers