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

Strategy Driven

Risk management helps them stay on top of the market challenges and trends in the relevant industry. However, markets and industries are dynamic concepts. Businesses across the world have become an integral part of the networked economy. All of this, at the same time, creates a network of risks. About the Author.

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

Harvard Business Review

On August 1 Uber announced that it is selling its Chinese brand and operations to Didi Chuxing for $1 billion, its annual burn rate in that market, in exchange for a 20% stake in the local competitor. Platforms are supposed to enable rapid, asset-light globalization. Are there really global network economies?

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Business School Professors Should Be Like Movie Directors

Harvard Business Review

Classrooms are becoming a mesh of virtual and real, inspiring more collaboration, and expanding across hundreds of cultures as campuses globalize. The classroom should be more akin to one big reality game that simulates a market or industry. Employers expect us to train our leaders to create value on this new frontier, as they should.