Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

We tend to see situations in one of two ways: either events are certain and can, therefore, be managed by planning, investment, and reliable budgets; or they are uncertain, and we cannot manage them. Probabilistic risk managers will think about the future of how they work. Let’s consider a few examples.

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Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 21, 2018

The culmination was an incident at an insecticide plant in LaPorte, Texas, where, as a result of a basic process safety management failure , an extremely toxic chemical—methyl mercaptan—was released and two workers were overcome. CEO Ellen Kullman came to see me and promised a top to bottom review of the DuPont safety program.

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Operations Chemicals CEO Metrics 14

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2013

It appears that Enron''s final fatal mistake was to try to support its stock price instead of living up to key contractual obligations required to maintain its credit rating. What caused Enron''s bankruptcy was, quite simply, the loss of its investment-grade credit rating. What caused Enron to go bankrupt?

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Price Credit Rating Finance Chief Financial Officer 8