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[Course Name] INS 575 [Overview] Corporate executives face a growing variety of risks that can interrupt their normal business operations and negatively impact the value of their firms. Such recent events as the threat of corporate class action lawsuits (e.g., the 2007 class action suit filed against Mattel for its sale of toys painted with lead-based paint or Merck’s three-year legal battle with consumers over the health risks of the firm’s Vioxx drug), the increase in the price of commodities (e.g., petroleum or grains), the unraveling of corporate employee benefit programs among U.S. auto makers, and the increased liability exposure placed upon corporate executives by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act reflect the growing spectrum of risks that threatens today’s businesses and organizations. INS 575: Risk Management examines the methods used by firms to protect their interests from these types of corporate risks. [Course Title] 
Risk Management
Second Year Course List — Penn State Smeal College of Business