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Risk Management – Value of Effective Risk Management

Strategy Driven

Most think of risk management as an insurance policy, the price paid to help prevent potentially negative outcomes. Such a view leads to the conclusion that risk management is a business expense with a highly subjective value proposition. You just finished reading Risk Management - Value of Effective Risk Management !

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How Dumb Is Your Business?

N2Growth Blog

Posted on October 13th, 2010 by admin in Operations & Strategy By Mike Myatt , Chief Strategy Officer, N2growth How dumb is your business? At the risk of drawing the ire of corporate elitists, I submit to you that the dumber your business is, the better off you are.

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Why Businesses Fail | N2Growth Blog

N2Growth Blog

Gut instincts can only take you so far in life, and anyone who operates outside of a sound decisioning framework will eventually fall prey to an act of oversight, misinformation, misunderstanding, manipulation, impulsivity or some other negative influencing factor. They make bad decisions.

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What the EPA’s Clean Power Plan Looks Like in Practice

Harvard Business Review

” Policies such as the new EPA proposal, which would establish firm limits on carbon pollution from power plants, will only help accelerate these much-needed market innovations. All told, they slashed carbon pollution from electricity by 20% from 2005-2011, led by Washington, which saw a 46% reduction during that period.

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Can JP Morgan Transparently Police Itself?

Harvard Business Review

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. They could be appropriate for Dimon, but so could a compensation action about future variable comp.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. This can disrupt a firm’s ability to operate on schedule and budget. ” Improving risk management.

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Strengthen Your Workforce Through Volunteer Programs

Harvard Business Review

Originally offered to just a few departments, the program is now company-wide, with more than half of all employees participating in 2011. By the way, although referred to as "volunteer" posts, employees usually receive their regular salaries during their stints of service.).