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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

While its results are singular, the methods used to achieve them can be used by any business that needs to reach a goal through team coordination. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. An HBR Mini Case Study.

Project 16
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How Risk Reduction Is (and Isn't) Rocket Science

Harvard Business Review

While its results are singular, the methods used to achieve them can be used by any business that needs to reach a goal through team coordination. This approach ensured that project resources were properly allocated where they were really needed and minimized conflicts of interest and management overhead. An HBR Mini Case Study.

Project 14
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The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

have been carefully observing Enron with interest since 1984 and have seen the trouble coming for most of those years. The company cried ‘case study’ from the very beginning, when it segued from the former Houston Natural Gas moniker. When goals are only in financial terms, the company is disproportionately lopsided.