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7.29.10
Distribution networks and supply chains are critically important and complex functions for most businesses. They are also a leading threat to enterprise value. In a program offered by the Pepper Hamilton law firm titled, "Stuck in the Middle: What's beyond your control may destroy you," Nir Kossovsky of Steel City Re discusses the financial implications of corporate reputation, their foundations in ethical, sustainability, and innovation practices in supply chains, and strategies for transforming risk into a source of value.
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7.21.10
Trust Across America with Jordan Kimmel presents Steel City Re's CEO, Nir Kossovsky, in a program titled, "Leadership, Risk and Reputation." The program airs at 12h00 EDT and is available as an MP3 download.
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7.09.10
Being in the headlines ‘aint what it used to be. BP, aka British Pinata, is having a reputational crisis of biblical proportions. At the Mission Intangible Monthly Briefing, "Building corporate reputation in the post-BP marketplace," Jonathan Salem Baskin, global brand strategist, speaker, and author of "Branding only Works on Cattle" and "Bright Lights Dim Bulbs"; explored the issue with Steel City Re's CEO, Nir Kossovsky. Program available as an MP3 download.
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6.14.10
In the Agenda newsletter, a board-centered publication of Money Media, a Financial Times Company, senior reporter Amanda Gerut looks at how boards are responding to the dangers of social media. As to quantifying the danger in terms of impact of on corporate financial statements, she cites Steel City Re and CEO Nir Kossovsky as authorities.
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6.03.10
World Trademark Review cites the Steel City Re Corporate Reputation Index and CEO, Nir Kossovsky, as authorities that "show(s) just how important reputation is in building a brand."
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6.01.10
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In TM v BP: A tale of two reputations , Kossovsky uses the Steel City Re Corporate Reputation Index metrics to illustrate what is meant by reputation resilience.
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5.28.10
Writing for Institutional Investor, Maureen Nevins Duffy reviews
Nouriel Roubini's new book, “Crisis Economics” (Penguin Press). As a counterpoint to "Dr. Doom's" indictment of Wall Street modeling, Ms. Duffy quotes Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky who blames the failure of models on “naiveté.”
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5.17.10
In the Agenda newsletter, a board-centered publication of Money Media, a Financial Times Company, Nir Kossovsky provides insights to the issue of IP theft.
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5.03.10
More from the Risk and Insurance Management Society meeting in Boston. In the Agenda newsletter, a board-centered publication of Money Media, a Financial Times Company, Tony Chappelle writes in "Conference Points Up Risk Managers’ Increasing Value to Boards" that risk professional are gaining credibility in-house. Characterizing Steel City Re's CEO, Nir Kossovsky 'a specialist on reputation assets,' Mr. Chappelle conveyed Steel City Re's mantra that companies with superior reputations have pricing power, lower operating costs, lower credit costs, and higher earnings multiples (available by subscription only - free trial available).
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5.01.10
In an article noting that in the wake of the Toyota recall, more companies are grappling with the issue of measuring reputation, CFO Magazine describes how the Steel City Re Corporate Reputation Index tracks the weekly reputation ranking of approximately 7000 companies. The article by failed to mention that certain hedge funds trade on the reputation metrics and that the Intangible Asset Finance Society publishes select data weekly through its blog, Mission Intangible.
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4.27.10
While covering events at the Risk and Insurance Management Society meeting in Boston, Risk and Insurance Magazine senior editor Dan Reynolds caught the panel session chaired by Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky and Nir's comments on Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS). Mr. Reynolds summarizes it this way: "...
that's just how powerful, in real monetary terms, reputation is."
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3.03.10
Marketing expert and iconoclast Jon Baskin, author of the Dim Bulb blog and books such as Branding Only Works on Cattle, (and speaker at an IAFS conference) references data in Mission: Intangible in his blog, Green with Enui. The issue - shareholders of Apple and ExxonMobil recently defeated corporate sustainability initiatives.
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3.02.10
In the context of Goldman Sachs' 10K disclosure that reputation risk was material, IAM Magazine's Joff Wild writes in his blog, "The good news for Goldmans and for anyone else is that there are ways in which to manage this most precious of intangible assets. In his IAM series - and also in his book Mission Intangible - Nir (Kossovsky) gives his views on how. Whether you agree with him or not on the specifics, though, you would be very badly advised not to engage with reputation management as an issue."
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3.01.10
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Whistling by the graveyard, Kossovsky uses the Steel City Re Corporate Reputation Index metrics and recent financial data to estimate the costs of Toyota Motors, (NYSE:TM) reputation loss. Bottom line, breaches in ethics, safety and quality will produce incremental income losses of $2 billion and has already produced an equity loss of $25 billion.
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2.24.10
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky and other leaders from the Intangible Asset Finance Society will lead a program track,
the Growing Intangible Asset Marketplace, at the ICAP Ocean Tomo IP Think Tank event on March 24-25, 2010, in San Francisco, California.
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2.17.10
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In You got it, Toyota, Kossovsky uses the Steel City Re Corporate Reputation Index metrics to show that Toyota Motors (NYSE:TM) was showing signs of reputation strain in early 2009.
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2.10.10
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Tigers, elephants and frogs; oh my!, Kossovsky uses the Steel City Re Corporate Reputation Index metrics to refute claims that Tiger Woods' sponsors, Accenture (NSYE:ACN), AT&T (NYSE:T), Nike (NYSE:NKE) or Electronic Arts (NASDAQ:ERTS), suffered financial losses from headline risk.
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2.03.10
IAM magazine's editorial for issue #40 (Mar/Apr 2010) gives chief exective Nir Kossovsky a shout out for thought leadership in linking reputation to intangible asset management. In Setting the intangible agenda
for the next decade, the editor writes, "As Nir Kossovsky and the Intangible Asset Finance Society (IAFS) continue to argue, reputation has a significant economic value and is, beyond question, a product of intangible asset management. It is hard to disagree with Kossovsky when he states that, second to managing cash, managing corporate reputation is the key issue in boardrooms across the world."
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1.28.10
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Financial Spreads, Kossovsky shows that the long-term returns of four examplary Capital Markets sector firms -- BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, and Morgan Stanely -- correlate with their reputation metrics.
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1.15.10
Steel City Re's Judy Giordan, Managing Director for Intangible Asset Finance, recieves the The Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal from the American Chemical Society. The annual that recognizes distinguished service to chemistry by women chemists. The Award consists of a cash prize (US$5,000) and a medal. The medal was designed by Margaret Christian Grigor. The Garvin-Olin Award is the ACS' third-oldest award, and the first award established to honor women chemists.
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12.18.09
Risk and Insurance Magazine outlines a solution for reducing reputation risks linked to high profile personalities such as, for example, Tiger Woods. The magazine quotes Steel City Re's CEO, Nir Kossovsky, and describes Steel City Re's approach to the general challenge of fostering conformance with desired behaviors.
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12.11.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Genzyme fixates on process, Kossovsky concludes that Genzyme's (Nasdqa:GENZ) focus on process improvements is timely and wise.
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12.08.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Reputation breeds indifference, Kossovsky finds litte evidence that United Airlines' reputation was adversely affected by Dave Caroll's YouTube tribute, United Breaks Guitars.
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12.01.09
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky, CEO, writes in J&J, a Credo and a Reputation in issue 39 of IAM magazine that a corporate ethical consititution set the ethical stage for Johnson & Johnson's (NYSE:JNJ) historic reputation restoration process.
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12.01.09
Steel City Re's Judy Giordan, Managing Director for Intangible Asset Finance, writes in Why It Has To Be Women in issue 39 of IAM magazine that new data affirm in financial terms the value of diversity. Giordan was co-leader of Project ENHANCE, a three year National Science Foundation study.
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11.17.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Ethical lubricant, Kossovsky reviews data from Kelly Services, Inc. (NASDAQ: KELYA, KELYB) affirming that companies can realize lower operating costs (read: human resource costs) and reduce internal frictional costs through superior intangible asset management (read: superior risk and reputation management).
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11.12.09
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky is quoted in the Boston Globe in a note on residential real estate transactions and the value of civility - an intangible asset.
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11.10.09
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky speaks on reputation and financial consequences at the Pennsylvania Bar Institutes program, "Facebook, Twitter & Blogging...Oh MySpace!" In addition to moderating a session on intellectual property issues, Kossovsky asks and answers the question - what is the value of reputation impairment through social media adventures, and what can you to to ensure reputation resilience?
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11.06.09
Steel City Re's Judy Giordan, Managing Director for Intangible Asset Finance, speaks at the Mission:Intangible Monthly Briefing on new data that affirm in financial terms the value of diversity. Giordan was co-leader of Project ENHANCE, a three year National Science Foundation study.
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11.06.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Diversity for dollars - change at Chrysler, Kossovsky looks at how Chrysler is working to restore its reputation through (1) business process changes: diversity and quality process engineering; and (2) innovative signaling strategies.
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10.13.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In P&G looks forward, Kossovsky looks at Procter & Gamble (NYSE:PG) and observes that a firm with world-class brands and price to book ratio of 2.7 focuses its risk management efforts on the management of value-creating intangible assets (business processes).
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10.5.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In New fundamentals, Kossovsky takes issue with the hard line anti-corporate stance of Nell Minow of the Corporate Library, yet finds value in Minow's central theme that going forward, investors will seek greater transparency on intangible asset financial management.
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9.24.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In It's personal, Kossovsky uses Siemens AG (NYSE:SI) to illustrate how Officers and Directors may be held personally liable for corporate ethical breaches.
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9.17.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Fast lane, Kossovsky revisits the Automobile sector, Ford (NYSE:F), GM (NYSE:GM) and Honda (NYSE:HMC) where he finds evidence of reward for superior reputation management.
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9.15.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Photo finish, Kossovsky comments briefly on an loan secured by the IP of photographer Annie Liebovitz.
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9.10.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Table or menu, Kossovsky looks at a baker's dozen of companies in the Food Products sector following Kraft Foods' (NYSE:KFT) unsolicited bid for Cadbury (NYSE:CDY).
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9.10.09
Steel City Re's Judy Giordan, Managing Director for Intangible Asset Finance, hosts a special workshop sponsored by the Pittsburgh Technology Council focused on women in leadership and high tech entrepreneurship. Judy highlights why women are great leaders and entrepreneurs and asks, "so why aren't there more of both?" Judy was co-leader of Project ENHANCE, a three year National Science Foundation study, she will share study findings and ask key questions to facilitate a discussion on women in leadership with fellow attendees.
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9.8.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Dominating Dominos, Kossovsky reviews a case of reputation resilience: why Dominos Pizza (NYSE:DPZ) rebounded successfully from a body blow to its most valuable intangible asset -- quality.
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9.3.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Ethical pharmaceuticals II, Kossovsky revisits economic return predictions for Novartis (NYSE:NVS), Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY) based on the Steel City Re Corporate Reputation Index.
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9.2.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Employer brand, Kossovsky challenges FT columnist Stefan Stern's conclusions on the relative reputations of Hiscox Ltd (LON:HSX), an insurance firm, and BT Group plc (NYSE:BT), the telecom conglomerate.
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8.27.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Reputation egalitarianism, Kossovsky summarizes the thoughts of reputation futurist Ross Dawson.
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8.25.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Whole feuds, Kossovsky comments on the reputation effects of the controversial comments by Whole Foods (NASDAQ:WFMI) CEO, John Mackay.
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8.20.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Reader's indigestion, Kossovsky comments on the effects of the Reader's Digest Chapter 11 filing on the reputation of Ripplewood Holdings and its CEO, Tim Collins.
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8.17.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Sifting for sentiment, Kossovsky comments on a new media tone metric launched by the Financial Times group to report on a specific stage of the reputation value chain.
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8.11.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Ethical investigations, Kossovsky comments on the apparent inpact of changes in UK and US law - in the UK, a new bribery bill which could become law next year creates an offence of “negligent failure of a commercial organisation to prevent bribery”. Executives could be held responsible for wrongdoing in their company or by third-party agents, regardless of whether they knew about it. In the US, that standard is already in place as the result of In re Caremark Int’l Inc. Derivative Litig., 698 A.2d 959 (Del. Ch. 1996), and Stone v. Ritter, 2006 Del. LEXIS 597 (Del. 2006).
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8.03.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Andersen's ashes, Kossovsky comments on indications and warnings of the accounting scandal at Huron Consulting (NASDAQ:HURN), a successor company to Andersen Consulting that collapsed amid allegations of accounting fraud with respect to Enron.
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7.13.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Sustainable sustainability, Kossovsky comments on the recent moves by United Technologies (NYSE:UTX) and BP (NYSE:BP) that challenge the widely-held assumption that a reputation for sustainability is valued.
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6.30.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Aeros and omissions, Kossovsky comments on the supply chain problems afflicting Boeing (NYSE:BA) and EADS (EPA:EAD).
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6.22.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Toll House cooke crumbles, Kossovsky comments on the E. coli 0157 oubreak in cookie dough that is giving venerable Nestle SA (VTX:NESN) a reputation challenge.
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6.12.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In The new Sprint, Kossovsky compares Wireless telecommunications services sector companies Sprint Nextel Corp (NYSE:S) and China Mobile Ltd. (ADS) (NYSE:CHL).
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6.10.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Nobody Doesn't Like Sara Lee, Kossovsky comments on the recent departure of Sara Lee Corp's (NYSE:SLE) risk and reputation officer, Margaret (Peggy) M. Foran executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary.
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6.05.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Target v. Wal-Mart, Kossovsky comments on the recent reversal of reputation trends at these two competitors.
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6.03.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Targeting Target, Kossovsky comments on the recent reputational rebound at Target (NYSE:TGT) and how that may have enabled the board to resist the efforts of activist investor Bill Ackman.
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6.02.09
Implant Sciences Corporation (OTCBB:IMSC), a supplier of systems and sensors for the homeland security market and related industries, adds Steel City Re's Robert P. Liscouski to the Company’s Board of Directors.
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6.01.09
According to Intellectual Asset Management magazine, "world-class IP strategists have a fully rounded approach to IP management and value creation, and how both should be aligned to overall business strategy. They look beyond straight bottom-line return to understand the range of value-creation options available to rights owners. They know how these can be applied to the circumstances of individual businesses. If needs be, they are able to develop new solutions to deal with very specific sets of circumstances. Many people call themselves IP strategists; far fewer can devise game-changing plans and then deliver on them. Those who can, however, are worth their weight in gold." Steel City Re's NIr Kossovsky has been recognized as a member of this peer group.
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5.28.09
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky speaks in Turin, Italy at the launch of the Intellectual Property Finance Institute, the first European research and competence centre focused on IP Economics & Finance. The Institute is a joint venture of the Innovation Studies Group of the Politecnico di Torino, a leading international technology university, and ICM Advisors, a leading international advisory and research firm specialized in intangible asset valuation and IP-based financing. The presentation can be downloaded from the IPFI website.
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5.19.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Flight safety, Kossovsky comments on the reputation impact of two safety incidents involving Colgan Air, a company owned by by Pinnacle Airlines Corporation (NADAQ:PNCL) that operates under the brand of three iconic companies: Continental Connection (NYSE:CAL), United Express (NASDAQ:UAUA), and US Airways Express (NYSE:LCC).
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5.15.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Banking on reputation, Kossovsky responds to a 11 May 2009 JD Powers report on consumer banking preferences and the role of risk and ethics. The featured companies are the top 10 ranking firms in the Regional banking sector, IBERIABANK Corp. (NASDAQ:IBKC), First Financial Bankshares Inc. (NASDAQ:FFIN), Cullen/Frost Bankers Inc. (NYSE:CFR), Peoples Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:PFBX), Bank of Marin Bancorp (NASDAQ:BMRC), UMB Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:UMBF), Westamerica Bancorp (NASDAQ:WABC), Commerce Bancshares Inc. (NASDAQ:CBSH), National Bankshares Inc. (NASDAQ:NKSH), and BOK Financial Corp. (NASDAQ:BOKF).
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5.14.09
Steel City Re's Chairman, Bob Rittereiser, addresses a gathering of Chief Financial Officers under the auspices of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants at the AICPA CFO Conference in La Jolla, CA. His keynote address: Strategic Leadership.
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5.08.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Popularity, reputation and financial metrics, Kossovsky compares the popularity survey data from the Reputation Institute with the financial indicators of corporate reputation from the Steel City Re Index. The featured companies are the top and bottom ranking firms according to the Reputation Institute survey, Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and Halliburton (NYSE:HAL).
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5.06.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Beverage grandmasters, Kossovsky likens the battle of the beverage titans, Pepsi (NYSE:PEP) and Coke (NYSE:KO) to a competition between two chess grandmasters. The game is all about letting the other guy make the first mistake.
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5.01.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Ethical pharmaceuticals, Kossovsky discusses ethics and the Pharmaceutical sector, Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Eli Lilly (NYSE:LLY), Novartis (NYSE:NVS) and Astra Zeneca (NYSE:AZN).
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4.28.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Pirates of reputation, Kossovsky comments on a recent blog post by Steel City Re colleague and former Assistant Secretary for Homeland Security, Robert Liscouski, on security issues and the Marine sector. Companies covered include Dry Ships Inc. (NASDAQ:DRYS) and Diana Shipping Inc. (NYSE:DSX).
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4.27.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Falling Dominos, Kossovsky discusses quality and the Restaurant sector, Panera Bread Co. (NASDAQ:PNRA); McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE:MCD); Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. (NYSE:CMG); and Dominos Pizza Inc. (NYSE:DPZ).
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4.24.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Truth vs truthiness, Kossovsky discusses intangible asset valuation in a multi-site debate with colleagues from Intellectual Asset Management Magazine and the Athena Alliance.
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4.22.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In A tale of two chassis, Kossovsky discusses the Automobiles sector, Ford (NYSE:F) and General Motors (NYSE:GM).
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4.20.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Tsk tsk, Liska, Kossovsky discusses ethics, the Communications Equipment sector, Motorola (NYSE:MOT) and Qualcomm (NASDAQ:QCOM).
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4.14.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Serving Reputation for Dinner, Kossovsky discusses safety, the Food Products sector, Kellogg (NYSE:K), Heinz (NYSE:HNZ), General Mills (NYSE:GIS), and Ralcorp (NYSE:RAH).
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4.13.09
MISSION:INTANGIBLE - Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky blogs for the Intangible Asset Finance Society on intangibles, reputation and finance. In Eclipse of the Sun, Kossovsky discusses innovation, the Computers and Peripherals sector, IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA).
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4.7.09
Risk & Insurance magazine leads their story covering Steel City Re Chairman Robert Rittereisers presentation 3 April at the Intangible Asset Finance Society as follows: "One of the more exciting developments in risk management recently has been the increased focus by forward-thinking people on vetting the ethical standards and financial stability, not only of their own shop, but of the shops of their trading partners."
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4.3.09
Cadbury Schweppes, Kellogg, Mattel - all iconic firms whose products, cash flows, and reputations have been sullied by their business partners through ethical breaches including melamine in milk, salmonella in peanut butter, and lead paint. In a presentation provocatively titled, "Imposing performance (behavior) requirements on a commercial partner," Steel City Re's Chairman, Robert Rittereiser, who also chairs the IAFS Ethics and Sustainability Committee, builds a compelling case for a robust global trade information network in which insurance instruments help enforce compliance.
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3.21.09
Steel City Re's Judith Giordan chairs a panel on corporate partnering and corporate ventures at the Venture Well forum in Alexandria, VA.
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3.17.09
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky and Robert Liscouski present at the Northern Virginia Technology Council's Emerging Business and Entrepreneur Event.
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3.6.09
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky and Peter Gerken write in Patent Management and Strategy volume 9 issue 10, that intangible asset mismanagement may expose corporate directors to personal liability. Learn about the governance issues surrounding intangible asset risk and reputation management.
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3.5.09
Peter Gerken of Steel City Re presented a breakout session on intangible asset risk management at WRG's Sixth Annual Summit on Monetizing and Maximizing IP. This conference centered on the theme of "How to Drive an Aggressive IP Monetization Program with Constrained Resources." Learn about increasing value, a Steel City Re specialty.
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3.4.09
Steel City Re's Robert Liscouski, formerly an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, continues his blog series on what the private sector security community can do to deploy resources that increase both security and corporate value. Learn about increasing value, a Steel City Re specialty.
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2.11.09
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky writes in IAM Magazine issue 34, "The reputation and intangible asset value crash of 2008," that the market collapse of Q4 2008 triggered a precipitous decline in intangible asset value from a median of 70% of market cap to around 50% of market cap. Learn about recovering value, a Steel City Re specialty.
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2.3.09
Steel City Re's Robert Liscouski, formerly an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, continues his blog series on what the private sector security community can do to deploy resources that increase both security and corporate value. Learn about protecting value, a Steel City Re specialty.
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1.29.09
In the blog of of the Adfera national security group, Steel City Re's Robert Liscouski, formerly an Assistant Secretary in the Department of Homeland Security, comments on an opportunity to simultaneously invest in the economy, enhance national security, and increase corporate enterprise value. Learn about increasing value, a Steel City Re specialty.
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1.24.09
In the blog of Intellectual Asset Management Magazine, editor Joff Wild triggers a heated on-line debate with an advance review of a paper in which Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky explains why the median intangible asset value has fallen from 70% of market cap to under 50% of market cap. Learn about recovering value, a Steel City Re specialty.
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1.14.09
In Compliance and Ethics Magazine, the official magazine of the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, Steel City Re's Peter Gerken explains how insurance instruments can reduce risk and increase enterprise value by both enforcing and signaling compliance with intangible asset management best practices. Click here to contact Peter Gerken to request a copy. Learn about protecting value, a Steel City Re specialty.
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1.02.09
In Patent Strategy and Management, Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky shows how business networks such as supply chains, franchisees, licensees, and outsourced service providers create reputation perils that place enterprise value at risk.
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12.19.08
In The Risk Communicator, the newsletter of the Security Analysis and Risk Management Association, Steel City Re's Robert Liscouski outlines the business case for security in an article entitled, "The Reputation Value of Security: Managing a Critical But Intangible Asset."
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12.05.08
In Intellectual Asset Management magazine, finance editor Nigel Page quotes Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky opining on the critical need for reputation management and the vital role of insurance in assuring value as stakeholders take flight to safety.
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11.25.08
In Risk & Insurance magazine, Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky suggests that to avoid D&O and other claims, insurance companies and others need to learn to manage the intangibles.
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11.18.08
Steel City Re's Robert Liscouski describes insurance-driven innovations in compliance enforcement at Beyond Compliance: Data Security and Corporate Risk at the Harvard Club, New York.
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11.10.08
Jonathan Salem Baskin writes in Advertising Age magazine that Steel City Re's metrics and management solutions bring to corporate reputation protection the clarity of forward-looking management tools instead of backward-looking crisis management.
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10.03.08
In issue 32 of IAM Magazine, authors Jorge Torres and Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky show that over the long term, companies that are superior managers of their intangible assets create more shareholder value. In the article, Intangible Assets and Shareholder Value, They also show that over the short term, these same companies have more stable stock prices. Last, over the past few months, reputational value has almost been as important as balance sheet value in establishing the market value of financial service companies.
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9.18.08
Anyone paying attention to the business headlines these days will readily appreciate the extent to which the strength of a financial services company is tied to its reputation -- and its business network (call it a financial supply chain if you must). The Intangible Asset Management magazine blog offers a timely reminder. "Ironically, Lehman Brothers was felled by the same vortex of forces that a year ago, turned Barbie’s accessories into toxic waste and knocked off $2 billion from Mattel’s market cap. That vortex was created by the complex forces at play in Mattel’s business network, ie, its supply chain."
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9.09.08
Supply chains are a prevalent form of commecial organization required by flat and lean organizations that outsource non-core functions. These are unencumbered by physical assets, are rich in intangible asset value and knowledge capital, and demonstrate superior returns on assets. These networks are essential for business, and are major source of risk. Steel City Re co-sponsored a conference on Reputation Perils in supply chains sponsored by the IAFS. Click here to link to the press releases from 8 Sep and 9 Sep.
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9.03.08
The Fall issue of the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management magazine is devoted to the "The Future of Capital" and includes discussions on intellectual capital/intangible assets. The issue contains articles from a number of perspectives from thought leaders. These interviews/insights cover issues ranging from accounting to social capital and from brand equity to reputation. On pages 90-92, Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky discusses "what it takes to become
a superior steward of intangible assets."
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8.04.08
In the article Reputation Resilience appearing in the current issue of IAM magazine, media partner to the Intangible Asset Finance Society, Steel City Re's Peter Gerken, President of the Insurance group, describes how best practice intangible asset management brings tangible benefits when a company finds its reputation is on the line.
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7.01.08
The Conference Board, the world's preeminent business membership and research organization best known for the Consumer Confidence Index and the Leading Economic Indicators, invites Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky to address its Reputation Risk Research Working Group.
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6.23.08
The Board on Science, Technology and Economic Policy in cooperation with the Committee on National Statistics of the National Academies hears Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky propose policy options to improve corporate competitiveness. The National Academies bring together committees of experts to address critical national issues and give advice to the federal government and the public.
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5.13.08
The Security Analysis and Risk Management Association hears Steel City Re's Robert Liscouski explain how value from investments in security can be realized when companies become superior managers of their intangible assets.
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5.12.08
The Financial Times publishes a letter on the value of reputation and the limitations of modern accounting from Steel City Re's CEO, Nir Kossovsky, in his capacity as Executive Secretary of the Intangible Asset Finance Society.
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4.23.08
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky explains the benefits of locating a leading-edge financial services business in Pittsburgh (Letter to the Editor of the Pittsburgh Post Gazette).
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3.26.08
Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson responds to Nir Kossovsky's question about private sector initiatives to protect and restore intangible asset value driven by integrity (6m13s into the CNBC Q&A segment at the US Chamber of Commerce).
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1.28.08
Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky shares his outlook on the intangible asset finance markets with IAM magazine.
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1.09.08
Writer Laura Goldman, in Michael Milken - Healthcare revolutionary appearing in Health Outcome Communicator 2008; 24:2-3, reports on Steel City Re's patent pending TOPCAP™ structure (conduit) for accelerating healthcare innovation.
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12.29.07
George Mason University School of Law Critical Infrastructure Protection Program publishes an analysis of the intangible value of security by Steel City Re's Robert Liscouski.
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12.14.07
Summary of the Steel City Re-sponsored conference, Financial Impact of Extra Financial Information, appears in IAM magazine.
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12.05.07
Milken Institute Israel Center's Financial and Policy Innovations Lab invites Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky and Judith Giordan to address conference in Jerusalem..
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11.12.07
Steel City Re to sponsor 14 Dec 2007 IAFS conference in New York on the Financial Impact of Extra Financial Information.
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11.06.07
Tomorrow's Business features Steel City Re's Robert Liscouski and Nir Kossovsky in a one hour radio program.
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11.05.07
The Bottom Line features Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky in story on the financial impact of intangible assets.
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09.09.07
New York Times features Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky in story on intangible asset monetization.
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08.23.07
Economist magazine publishes Letter to the Editor on intangible asset value from Steel City Re's Nir Kossovsky.
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