Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2012

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. These risks can emanate from the realm of security, public health, natural ecology, technology, or economics.

Risk Management 15

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 15

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Renowned crisis manager, lawyer, author, and television producer, Judy Smith, the inspiration for the TV show “Scandal,” joins Azeem Azhar to discuss what tech businesses need to know to stay on top of their reputation in an era of instantaneous news and activist employees.

Crisis 10

Crisis Crisis Management Reputation Management 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

Ever since the forced bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the financial crisis 10 years ago, regulators, risk managers, and central bankers around the globe have focused on shoring up banks’ ability to withstand financial shocks. But the next crisis might not come from a financial shock at all.

Crisis 11

Crisis Banking System Cooper 11

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 2, 2015

Many people used to do the same thing with the word ‘technology,’ using it far from its reasonable definitions. These expressions are trite and reflect a copy-cat way of talking and thinking: ‘Solutions’ is a tired 1990’s term, taken from technology hype.

Strategy 50

Strategy Strategic Planning Budgeting Risk Management 50

Strategy Driven

JULY 11, 2014

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. There were years where I kept the typewriter on the work station next to the computer.

Energy 74

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 74

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Clarke, Technology and the Future. The ingredients may include such sophisticated business concepts as change management, crisis management and preparedness, streamlining operations, empowerment of people, marketplace development, organizational evolution and vision.

Benchmarking 50

Benchmarking Crisis Management Rogers Tactics 50

N2Growth Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Decisions made at the gut instinct or data level can be made quickly, but offer a higher level of risk. Decisioning at the information level affords a higher degree of risk management, but are still not as safe as those decisions based upon actionable knowledge.

Blog 416

Blog Analysis CEO Brand 416

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2023

Extreme weather events, infrastructure and technology failures, and transportation accidents are on the rise globally. These physical threats often have cascading effects that reach all areas of a business. Organizational resilience, or the ability to anticipate, absorb, and recover from hazardous events, is now table stakes.

ROI 18

ROI Transportation Bottom-up Globalization 18

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 9, 2018

Businesses are constantly experimenting with new ways to use artificial intelligence for better risk management and faster, more responsive fraud detection — and even to predict and prevent crimes. While today’s basic technology is not necessarily revolutionary, the algorithms it uses and the results they can produce are.

Banking 8

Banking Strategic Fit Risk Management Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Executives in any business, however, can learn valuable lessons in crisis leadership: One critical concept that we share with the participants in the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative (NPLI) at Harvard is that every crisis includes many situations , each with different contingencies and considerations. Remember Katrina.)

Crisis 8

Crisis How To Crisis Management Media 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

As corporate leaders grapple with the question of how to prove something is (or isn’t) real, they will need to invest in new technology that helps them keep one step ahead of bad actors. But that technology is still in its early stages, and as it develops you can be sure that bad actors will be working on ways to defeat it.

Reputation 10

Reputation Company Video Crisis 10

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 3, 2018

Business evolution is an amalgamation of thoughts, technologies, approaches and commitment of the people, asking such insightful questions as: What would you like for you and your organization to become? How important is it to build an organization well, rather than constantly spend time in managing conflict?

Company 50

Company Self-aware Creativity Marketing 50

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 3, 2012

The financial crisis that led to the Great Recession unfolded almost four years ago. But for businesses, knowing when to expend time and effort preventing — and planning responses to — low probability, high consequence events is now, more than ever, one of the hardest and most important risk management problems to address.

Risk Management 11

Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis Report 11

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2014

Is there any aspect of your daily life and business that is not significantly affected by digital technology? Digital transformation is about a careful transition between the old and the new, balancing risk management, value creation and long-term sustainability, which are precisely the key roles of boards. Boards Technology'

Business Model 8

Business Model Technology Long-term Risk Management 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 5, 2016

You employ state-of-the-art technology and are in the vanguard of your industry. Operations are sound, professional and productive. Demonstrated integrity and dependability assure customers and stakeholders that you will use your size and influence rightly. Keeping the cash register ringing is not the only reason for being in business.

Leadership 50

Leadership Benchmarking Learning-by-Doing Ethics 50

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Rather than stick together in crisis situations and collectively investigate the problems, both Ford and Firestone distanced themselves from each. economy spent one trillion dollars fixing and treating the so-called Y2K Bug, which we now know was a manufactured “crisis” by technology consulting companies.

Crisis 58

Crisis Crisis Management Retail Budgeting 58

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2016

For instance, the cost of building and equipping a leading-edge semiconductor fab has climbed to $7 billion, as the technology required to make more advanced chips is getting more complex. In many industries, the capital required to build an asset of minimum efficient scale is growing. Dual asymmetrical joint venture.

Co-Opetition 8

Co-Opetition Operations Cost Technology 8

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

We’ve got the latest technology. Once the PR crisis passes, things will get back to normal. Our company has got the most up to date technology. Companies spend disproportionate amounts of money on technology and neglect their people, processes and policies. Our people were hired to do their jobs.

Budgeting 74

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 74

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Some of these problems occurred before the 2008 crisis and some since then. These business leaders must, however, be aided by highly competent legal, financial, risk, compliance, audit and technology staff. And will the intensity and focus of top management remain in 12 or 18 months when the current crisis has passed?

Banking 8

Banking Management Ethics Letter 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

These include legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement, litigation, ethics, reputation, crisis management, corporate citizenship, and pressures from public officials, NGOs, and the media. These ethical questions arise in the whole range of corporate activity from technology and manufacturing to marketing and sales.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If only GM’s modern-day leaders could have summoned such creativity amidst crisis.). In an era of economic dislocation and technological disruption, you can’t do great things if you’re content with doing things a little differently than how you’ve done them in the past. Change management Leadership Risk management'

White Paper 9

White Paper Advertising Risk Management Entrepreneur 9

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

When they did take the helm of a company, they tended to improve the condition of the company over the course of their tenure more often than other leaders — 71% of the time versus 42% for those without management consulting backgrounds. Consulting Crisis management Succession planning'

Consultative 9

Consultative CEO Management Short-term 9

Harvard Business Review

JULY 17, 2017

I seldom, if ever, hear that apologetic tone from students choosing technology companies or consulting. How will the crisis of problematic loans in Italian banks be resolved? Finally, the global financial crisis has taught us about the havoc that finance can wreak — and how central the industry is to our lives.

Finance 8

Finance Insurance Career Reputation 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

As one of the most serious industrial accidents in history, the Gulf explosion should be a great case study for corporate leaders across the globe who are trying to manage risk in hazardous activities involving complex technology. And, if they are not known, those lessons can't be learned.

Report 12

Report Policies Risk Management Analysis 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

The land reforms triggered a series of events that spiraled into a major economic crisis and caused formal unemployment to soar to 90%. Technology : Providers of mobile banking and cash transfer solutions are doing particularly well in the economy due to the country’s multi-currency exchange regime and low availability of U.S.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Strategy Driven

MAY 2, 2014

The irony is that its principal corporate contributor (Eastman Kodak) fell by the wayside, a victim of changing technologies. Photography is presently at an all-time high in terms of societal impact. Photographs convey thoughts, ideas and experiences.

Strategy 93

Strategy Budgeting Audience Risk Management 93

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Do you have the necessary resources (financial, technology, talent, infrastructure, etc.) How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? " My days in technology have taught me that you frequently have to ask "why" up to 5 times before you REALLY get the answer.

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

Strategy Driven

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Technology is but one tool of the trade. In the 1940s, technology brought us the 45-RPM and 33-1/3-RPM records… adding up to the ‘mother speed’ of 78-RPM. Some of the old ways really work better… and should not be dismissed just because they are old or some fashionable trend of the moment looks better.

Planning 59

Planning Learning Curve Learning-by-Doing Budgeting 59

Strategy Driven

JANUARY 3, 2014

Though I wrote all my books on computers, I wrote the modern technology chapters on the typewriter, to make points to myself that the readers could never have grasped. There were years where I kept the typewriter on the work station next to the computer.

Energy 56

Energy Strategic Planning Succession Humphrey 56

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

A massive breach is not an individual error or a technology failure — it’s an organizational breakdown that is the responsibility of the top executive. A study from risk management firm Stroz Friedberg found that just 45% of senior leaders believe they are responsible for protecting their companies against cyberattacks.

Execution 8

Execution Press Release Report Reputation 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

Contingency : Nothing is without risk, and when you think something is without risk, that is when you’re most likely to end-up in trouble. All initiatives surrounding new ideas should include detailed risk management provisions. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 7, 2022

And how organizations around the world can prepare.

Organization 21

Organization Crisis Management Risk Management Crisis 21

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 26, 2015

But in the aftermath of the financial crisis, risk managers have become increasingly involved in business strategy and decisions. The risk team helped run the numbers to ensure the client met the right credit threshold, then marketing prepared the package and the reps went to work. The risk function can do the same.

Credit Scoring 8

Credit Scoring Risk Management Finance Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

On paper, the project seemed like it would be a hit: The investment by the mining company would bring jobs and 21st-century technology to an economically poor area and tax revenues to the government. Managers need to communicate directly with many stakeholders to build a shared understanding of local needs, issues, and concerns.

Company 9

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 5, 2015

To add to that, business buyers must justify a decision to others in the organization, especially as capital expenditures flow less liberally in many industries since the financial crisis of 2008.

B2B 8

B2B AIDA AIDAS Disintermediation 8