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8 Leading Areas for Change In Risk Management/Analysis In The Coming Years

Strategy Driven

The digital era has also brought to light new business models facing brand new risks, which makes digitization a leading area for change in risk analysis. People in the risk management industry will have to identify these emerging and evolving risk types and integrate them into the existing risk models.

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What Uber’s China Deal Says About the Limits of Platforms

Harvard Business Review

One specific manifestation of the interest in platforms has to do with the notion that, as a business model, they represent a silver bullet for all the time and treasure that globalization takes. Are there really global network economies? Do switching costs help sustain network advantages?

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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

However, our current business model is ill-prepared for these trends. Professors must think of themselves as experiential movie directors for a production of Global Business in the Networked Economy , orchestrating and coaching a multinational cast of actors through experiments – and stepping off of the stage for a broader purview.