Harvard Business Review

JUNE 11, 2012

Over time, these risk attitudes change via the process of surprise. Because firms and individual managers have totally different risk attitudes, there is a varied and varying set of surprises that are happening all the time. Of course, Maximizers and Managers are surprised. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

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Risk Management Company Marketing Case Study 12

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Studying hundreds of data breaches, our research has found that they create significant ripples that affect other companies in the industry. Although companies can provide transparency and control through various customer communications, the formalized and codified ways they do this is their privacy policies.

Policies 11

Policies Company Sample Price 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2012

So says Michael Cavanagh — who has been cleaning up the trading mess for JPM CEO Jamie Dimon — on the company's quarterly earnings call. million in 2011, including $7.5 Second, which of the numerous compensation recovery policies were used to pull back the 2010 and 2011 remuneration? Drew earned $15.5

CIO 12

CIO Risk Management Policies Reputation 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In 2011 Avaya had a major likability problem, and the according market performance you would expect. Reeling from the growing pains of a $475 million merger with Nortel, the business communications company faced lingering customer disillusionment and falling profits. Avaya embraced innovation as a risk management exercise.

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Agility Innovation Metrics Middle Management 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 9, 2014

” It wasn’t just one company, though; the whole economy was slowed by the extremes and volatility we faced. So let’s consider what a company can do in a world that’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous – that’s “VUCA” for short, a military term that’s been adopted by business. Diversity. billion hit to earnings).

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Strategy Risk Management Christensen 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

Although the media has spoken loosely about a company "clawing back" pay, there are, in fact, different ways to hold responsible individuals to financial account. Holding people to account for these and related issues is an essential element of a broad approach to risk management inside financial services (and industrial) firms.

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CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 5, 2014

Americans — and American companies — have also connected the dots between clean energy and economic growth, with 87% last year saying that developing clean energy should be a priority for the President and Congress. After all, the power sector is already halfway toward meeting its 2030 target of 30% below 2005 CO2 emissions levels.

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Power Planning Proposal Energy 9

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Former employees have alleged a “soul-crushing” culture of fear and daily intimidation by managers, where they were pressured to reach extreme sales goals, some by breaking the law. Along with fixing the sales culture, the bank will have to address these critical management issues to prevent the next scandal.

Banking 11

Banking Committee Leadership Ethics 11

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Time-crunched employees are increasingly looking to their jobs to provide opportunities for the good deeds that they don't have the hours for outside of work, and companies are responding. We're a quantitatively focused company," she says. After the event, 51% felt better about the company, and 50% felt better about themselves.

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Participative Library Entrepreneur Survey 14

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Aside from being costly, a flawed execution can cast doubt on management credibility, have a negative impact on morale, taint the brand, adversely affect external relationships, and cause a variety of other problems for your business. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions.

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Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 384

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 12, 2011

In the torrent of commentary following Steve Jobs' death, few have noted that his career and his company say something profound in the endless debate about the purpose of the corporation. Martin's manifesto is: "We must shift the focus of companies back to the customer and away from shareholder value. But this is at it should be.

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Short-term Rogers Long-term Price 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2013

The next time we hear about a bank or insurance company''s "green program" — like using energy efficient light bulbs or operating out of a LEED Platinum building — we''ll either scream or throw up. Trust reached an all-time low of 24 percent in 2011, down from 69 percent in 2008.". Don''t get us wrong.

Banking 8

Banking Licensing Finance Insurance 8

Strategy Driven

APRIL 4, 2014

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Of the companies who continue to operate without a plan, 40% of them will be out of business in the next 10 years. by Hank Moore.

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Budgeting Succession Consultative Crisis 85

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. Yet executives are often reluctant to place sustainability core to their company’s business strategy in the mistaken belief that the costs outweigh the benefits. ” Improving risk management.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Loyalty Efficiency 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Companies that emit a lot of greenhouse gases should know that at some point the burgeoning impacts of climate change will prompt government to act, either at the federal or state level, or both. And any company can be subject to the physical impacts of climate change, whether or not they are big emitters.

Insurance 9

Insurance Supply Chain Benchmarking Trends 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 13, 2012

In 2005, Dimon hired Ina Drew to head the company's Chief Investment Office, the unit responsible for the bank's risk exposure. In 2011, the company dropped its requirement to exit investment positions when losses exceeded $20 million. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS. Five House Rules for Managing Risky Behaviors.

Banking 10

Banking Kahneman Document Simon 10

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Any company or organization is like a tree. None of the limbs and twigs on each branch (staff-consultants) provide all nourishment required to breed a healthy tree (company). Top management must endorse corporate imaging and other forms of practice development, if your company is to grow and prosper. by Hank Moore.

Positioning 50

Positioning Company Strategic Planning Guidelines 50

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

If, as many would argue, a core CEO job is to create the company culture, the board of directors seems to ignore that bed-rock corporate principle when it increases Dimon’s pay, without much explanation, after several years in which the failings of the JPM culture were on the front pages for all to see.

Banking 8

Banking Fashion CEO Short-term 8

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? And I can assure you that any CEO who views him/herself as an army of one will fail. How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? to hit your objectives? Why should we make this investment?

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Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 16, 2015

” These information-focused leaders emerged as the world changed and the capabilities that companies needed shifted over time. The issues in each of these buckets require new leadership, or at least a rethinking of it in the highest ranks of companies, and deep operational changes. But companies will need new positions as well.

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Constraint Supply Chain Resources Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 23, 2011

Every half century or so, the risk assumptions underlying our economic, social and political foundations change dramatically. For a number of reasons, the size, complexity scale and symmetry of risk are vastly different in 2011 than 1991. It's not a matter of training to choose option "A" or "B."

Uncertainty 14

Uncertainty Supply Chain Scenario Planning Sharpe 14

Harvard Business Review

MAY 11, 2012

I read through all the lessons meant to make me a better, less cognitively biased forecaster, and started placing bets (using play money) on whether, say Muqtada al-Sadr would formally withdraw support for the current Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki by 30 September 2011. I paid pretty close attention in the first few months, and did okay.

How To 10

How To Politics Metrics Follow-up 10

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 4, 2014

Are managers particularly concerned about the impacts of climate change on their businesses? That story focuses on how the World Economic Forum, and some specific companies like Coca-Cola and Nike, are taking the issue seriously. If we believe the results of a recent MIT Sloan and BCG survey , the answer is no.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Short-term Fast Follower 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

I had run that group of stories through so many filters to ensure I was capturing everything in a balanced way — age, size of company, industry, geography. Maybe women conceive of risk-taking differently and I just didn't look through the right lens. I looked at Jill and said, "How in the world did this happen!?"

Stress 9

Stress Open-book Consultative Learning-by-Doing 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

Take the example of one of my clients, a Fortune 200 consumer products company. As the VP of global risk management told me, the most expensive events in company history in every weather category (flood, earthquake, hail, wind, etc.) Companies are waking up to the immediate impacts. occurred in the last few years.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Company Insurance Automotive 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 14, 2013

This rush to upgrade, however, creates a challenge: large numbers of excess electronics must be managed and disposed of properly. But what she viewed as a trivial act was in fact a serious data security threat that created massive liability for her company. An IT director was suspected of taking them. A Rising Threat.

Risk Management 8

Risk Management Class Information Technology Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 24, 2013

And unfortunately, they suggest that, in our huge, complex financial institutions, major failures of organizational discipline and major losses are likely to recur, despite greater attention to risk management. The risk limits set were too vague and broad. And, the Value at Risk (VaR) model was badly flawed, understating risk.

Report 8

Report CIO Crisis Committee 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 15, 2014

When I became the CEO of Anglo American in 2007, the company had suffered nearly 200 fatalities over the previous five years. Some company veterans insisted that deaths were inevitable at such a large mining company, because mining is simply a dangerous business. My conversations with local managers were frustrating.

Operations 8

Operations Industry CEO Bottom-up 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 7, 2012

On March 11, 2011, a magnitude-9.0 Before companies could fully recover, massive flooding in Thailand caused further disruptions in Asian supply chains. You have to expect the unexpected, yet in retrospect, too many companies and leaders have inadvertently made themselves fragile in their pursuit of ever-greater efficiency.

Efficiency 9

Efficiency Supply Chain Christensen Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 15, 2016

Some companies have ridden this wave. Chan School of Public Health, about the major challenges of local sourcing, how companies can manage them, and what food supply chains will look like in the future. Companies like Tyson have decades of experience in testing and making sure their products are safe. How can this be?

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Price Globalization Outsourcing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

but are still, as is clear from the chart below, costing companies a lot of money. These lawsuits have been enabled in part by the efficient-market teaching that “in an open and developed securities market, the price of a company’s stock is determined by the available material information regarding the company and its business.”

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Training Efficiency Class Price 8