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 14

Risk Management Management Committee Insurance 14

Strategy Driven

AUGUST 1, 2014

Criticizing others may be cloaked as a subtle or even polite dialog. We can dispense with all that employee training and professional development. Not engaging in planning for future operations: So what are you gonna do about it? Some people and organizations go to great extremes to place spins, rationalize or save face.

Budgeting 82

Budgeting Risk Management Quality Strategic Planning 82

N2Growth Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

How can we improve the risk management, governance, control, and reporting functions for this? Who are your strongest leaders and how are you developing them to handle more responsibility? How will we measure them, and what hurdles do we need to hit to be successful? to hit your objectives? Why should we make this investment?

Team Building 284

Team Building Blog Team CEO 284

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 13, 2011

In order for your enterprise to turn an idea into a monetizing and/or value creating event you should develop a strategic plan that attempts to measure the idea against the following 15 elements: 1. It should be developed as a solution to a problem or to exploit an opportunity. Be careful of high level, pie-in-the-sky projections.

Blog 413

Blog Innovation Strategic Planning Brand 413

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 23, 2016

Are corporate boards as polarized politically as the general population? Female directors are much more evenly split between the two main political parties. The ideological divisions we’re seeing in the political arena have permeated the boardroom. We did not find any notable differences by age group or education.

Politics 8

Politics Committee Telecommunications Diversity 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Developed during World War II, CARVER (then one letter shorter and known as CARVE) was originally used by analysts to determine where bomber pilots could most effectively drop their munitions on enemy targets. (One The CSO would rank Criticality like this: 5 – Loss of the pipeline would stop operations. 2 – Little impact.

Tools 9

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 20, 2016

She must also have the experience and capability to address business-in-society issues—legislation, regulation, investigation, enforcement and litigation — that now create risk and opportunity in all dimensions of corporate activity. Recent global developments underscore the importance of these societal issues.

CEO 8

CEO Ethics Chief Financial Officer Supply Chain 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Look no further than the recent protests against the completion of the Keystone and the Dakota Access pipelines , or the opposition that stopped the development of the Cape Wind Associates’ offshore wind farm in Nantucket Sound. Conflicts like these with local communities are not only divisive, they are expensive.

Company 8

Company Supply Chain Real Estate Stakeholder Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 25, 2016

Commentators and researchers have focused on the crucial role of the CEO in leading effective corporate action to promote high performance, high integrity , and sound risk management. One key to this partnership is identifying risk priorities—whether economic (e.g.

CFO 8

CFO Chief Financial Officer Compliance Due Diligence 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 29, 2016

How can leaders develop a specific view of the industry- and firm-level implications? Political process. ” From the map, combine various values to develop multiple scenarios. by combining political uncertainty with lower volatility). What are the first-response imperatives for corporate leaders? For example, a U.S.

Uncertainty 8

Uncertainty Short-term Supply Chain Long-term 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

Yes, political hacktivists brag about Web pages defaced and customer information released over the Internet, but companies rarely reveal the attacks that result in the loss of valuable intellectual property — business plans, proprietary technologies or fraudulent payments.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 26, 2017

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. In politics, this is known as the principle of “ subsidiarity ” or “the principle that a central authority should … [perform] only those tasks which cannot be performed at a more local level.”

Decentralization 8

Decentralization Efficiency Mintzberg Operations 8

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Mugabe’s ouster and replacement with his one-time deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was the most significant development in the Southern African nation since it gained independence from Britain in 1980. However, companies should stay clear of sectors with high levels of political interference, such as mining.

Banking 8

Banking First-mover Advantage Politics Finance 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2014

If the customers haven’t changed much, point to changes in the competitive environment that make your strategy less sound today than it was when it was developed. Mine societal, economic, political, regulatory, and technological trends to identify any external changes that necessitate a shift in your strategy.

Strategic Planning 8

Strategic Planning Due Diligence Proposal Rogers 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

At Frontier Strategy Group, we observed that in 2017, executives and boards paid the most attention to risks that dominated global headlines: Brexit, the Trump administration’s trade policy, cybersecurity, and, more recently, North Korea. conflict in the Middle East or Africa renewing the migrant crisis in Europe.

Market Risk 8

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

It’s no secret that organizations have been increasingly turning to advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve decision making across business processes—from research and design to supply chain and risk management. Additionally, knowledge of common use cases (e.g., in their domain is important.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain McKinsey Engineering Agility 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 20, 2017

Multinational companies operating in Mexico are facing a great deal of uncertainty. If the center-right PAN candidate wins, whether it is Zavala or Anaya, it would likely help cement business’s confidence in the country’s economic and political stability. Renegotiating NAFTA. Navigating the Next Two Years in Mexico.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Depreciation Uncertainty Marketing 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 22, 2013

Everyone we spoke to in the company was polite, helpful, and increasingly apologetic. If you are a business leader, you don’t want to see any of these developments occur. The big banks had well-intentioned formal processes for risk management, but no one was really, genuinely accountable for the risks they took.

Bureaucracy 8

Bureaucracy Chief Financial Officer Delegation Globalization 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

To do that, all the parties that have a stake in disruptions — members of supply chains, insurers, governments, and markets — should proactively develop a responsiveness system that would be able to predict different types and levels of supply-chain disasters. Government incentives are necessary.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Transportation Merchandising 8