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Managing Risks Means Managing Arguments

Harvard Business Review

The tick-borne illness kept JPMorgan Chase's Ina Drew out of the office for extended periods in 2010 and 2011. That discord in 2010 and 2011 contributed to the chief investment office's losing trades in 2012, the current and former bankers said. How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating.

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JP Morgan's Loss: Bigger than "Risk Management"

Harvard Business Review

Finance professor Rene Stulz, for example, has made the point that a large loss in itself is not evidence of a risk management failure, because a large loss can happen even if risk management is flawless ( Six Ways Companies Mismanage Risk , HBR , March 2009). How Competitive Intelligence Rules Encourage Cheating. But was it?