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- November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 13: Identifying Strategic Risk
By: Robert Simons
This module reading begins by describing the three sources of strategic risk—operations risk, asset impairment risk, and competitive risk—and demonstrates how these risks can undermine an entire business. To assist in the identification of these risks, the risk...
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Keywords:
Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Execution;
Risk Assessment;
Operational Control;
Asset Impairment;
Franchise Risk;
Fraud;
Strategy;
Information Management
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 13: Identifying Strategic Risk." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-113, November 2016. (Revised December 2016.)
- September – October 2011
- Article
Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk-Part II: The Office of Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes and Robert S. Kaplan
In the second article of our two-part series, we explore the concept of an Office of Risk Management along with a case study of an innovative risk management function at JP Morgan Private Bank. We also look at the "softer" components of risk management, including a...
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Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Innovation and Invention;
Management Style;
Managerial Roles;
Risk Management
Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan. "Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk-Part II: The Office of Risk Management." Balanced Scorecard Report 13, no. 5 (September–October 2011): 1–6.
- September 2011 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul Healy and Sarah L. Abbott
It was June 2011 and Alexander Saint-Amand, President and CEO of Gerson Lehrman Group, the largest expert network firm globally, has found his firm once again in the midst of controversy. This controversy centered around a number of insider trading cases that had been...
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Keywords:
Risk Management
Groysberg, Boris, Paul Healy, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Gerson Lehrman Group: Managing Risks." Harvard Business School Case 412-004, September 2011. (Revised January 2012.)
- 02 Nov 2010
- Conference Presentation
Risk Management in High-reliability Organizations
By: Anette Mikes
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
Enterprise Risk Management in Action
By: Anette Mikes
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management in Action." ESRC Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation Discussion Paper, October 2005.
- March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Deciding about "Megadeals"
By: Anette Mikes
Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in a corporate finance business. Chief executive Alastair Dowes has to decide if the risk governance process is adequate to uncover mega-risks...
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Keywords:
Risk Management;
Decision Making;
Performance Evaluation;
Credit;
Balance and Stability;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Negotiation Offer;
Performance Effectiveness;
Corporate Finance;
Banking Industry
Mikes, Anette. Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Deciding about "Megadeals". Harvard Business School Case 109-071, March 2009. (Revised May 2011.)
- April 2024
- Case
Managing AI Risks in Consumer Banking
By: Suraj Srinivasan, Satish Tadikonda, Paul Dongha, Manoj Saxena and Radhika Kak
In early 2024, Ruth Jones, head of digital banking at Signa Bank, a (fictitious) European consumer bank, was thinking about how to best incorporate GenAI capabilities to improve efficiencies and create new ways to improve the customer experience. Where were the biggest...
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Srinivasan, Suraj, Satish Tadikonda, Paul Dongha, Manoj Saxena, and Radhika Kak. "Managing AI Risks in Consumer Banking." Harvard Business School Case 124-093, April 2024.
- 11 Apr 2012
- News
The High Risks of Short-Term Management
- 23 Apr 2024
- News
AI-Related Risks Test the Limits of Organizational Risk Management
- January 1994 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Ocean Spray Cranberries: Environmental Risk Management
Ocean Spray Cranberries, one of the nation's most successful agricultural cooperatives, faces some difficult environmental management problems associated with water usage and wetlands development. Because of federal and state wetlands laws, new bogs for expansion had...
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Keywords:
Agribusiness;
Innovation and Invention;
Risk Management;
Cooperative Ownership;
Environmental Sustainability;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
Vietor, Richard H.K. "Ocean Spray Cranberries: Environmental Risk Management." Harvard Business School Case 794-088, January 1994. (Revised August 1994.)
- April 1993 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
American Barrick Resources Corporation: Managing Gold Price Risk
By: Peter Tufano
Managing the risk of changing prices of gold is central to the business strategy of American Barrick Resources Corp., one of North America's largest and most successful gold-mining firms. The case contrasts this firm's hedging policies with those of its rivals that do...
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Tufano, Peter. "American Barrick Resources Corporation: Managing Gold Price Risk." Harvard Business School Case 293-128, April 1993. (Revised October 1995.)
- 2021
- Article
Internment as a Business Challenge: Political Risk Management and German Multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)
By: Christina Lubinski, Valeria Giacomin and Klara Schnitzer
Internment in so-called “enemy countries” was a frequent occurrence in the 20th century and created significant obstacles for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This article focuses on German MNEs in India and shows how they addressed the formidable challenge of the...
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Keywords:
Internment;
Political Risk;
International Business;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Employees;
War;
History;
Outcome or Result;
India;
Germany
Lubinski, Christina, Valeria Giacomin, and Klara Schnitzer. "Internment as a Business Challenge: Political Risk Management and German Multinationals in Colonial India (1914–1947)." Business History 63, no. 1 (2021): 72–97.
- March 2012
- Article
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This article is concerned with business strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a pharmaceutical and skin care company in Germany. During World War I, the expropriation of its brands and trademarks...
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Keywords:
Business Strategy;
Government and Politics;
Risk Management;
Brands and Branding;
Problems and Challenges;
Communication Technology;
Cost;
Trademarks;
Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Germany
Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990." Enterprise & Society 13, no. 1 (March 2012): 85–119.
- Winter 2012
- Article
The Struggle to Codify Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes
Keywords:
Risk Management
Mikes, Anette. "The Struggle to Codify Risk Management." Risk & Regulation, no. 24 (Winter 2012): 18–19.
- 2011
- Working Paper
Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990
By: Geoffrey Jones and Christina Lubinski
This working paper examines corporate strategies of political risk management during the twentieth century. It focuses especially on Beiersdorf, a German-based pharmaceutical and skin care company. During World War I the expropriation of its brands and trademarks...
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Keywords:
History;
Risk Management;
Business History;
Multinational Firms and Management;
Corporate Strategy;
Intellectual Property;
Cooperation;
Business and Government Relations;
Germany
Jones, Geoffrey, and Christina Lubinski. "Managing Political Risk in Global Business: Beiersdorf 1914-1990." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-003, July 2011.
- October 2020
- Teaching Note
Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
This note was prepared by HBS Professor Robert Kaplan and Professor Anette Mikes (University of Oxford) for the purpose of aiding classroom instructors in the use of “Swissgrid: Enterprise Risk Management in a Digital Age,” HBS No. 119-045.
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- 1984
- Other Unpublished Work
Legitimizing Risk Management for Toxic Chemicals
By: Dutch Leonard and Richard Zeckhauser
- 2001
- Working Paper
Bank Capital and Risk Management: Issues for Banks and Regulators
By: Kenneth A. Froot
Banks and financial firms are in the process of evolving away from primary warehousers of risk to diversified originators and distributors of financial services. These changes are important for the way that financial firms think about their needs for economic... View Details
Keywords:
Bank Capital And Risk Management;
Issues For Banks And Regulators;
Risk Management;
Governance Compliance;
Capital;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry
Froot, Kenneth A. "Bank Capital and Risk Management: Issues for Banks and Regulators." IFCI Geneva Research Paper, No. 8, April 2001. (International Financial Risk Institute.)