Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Managing risks — especially the hard-to-pin-down, moving-target risks that any financial trading operation has to cope with — inevitably involves arguing. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. But data and objectivity can only get you so far.

Management 11

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 11

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In an uncertain and volatile world, risk management — a previously unsexy subject for many managers who created annual updates or reviews of their company's risk management plans — is now a front-burner issue for many. This assumption may be fundamentally flawed.

Supply Chain 8

Supply Chain Chief Procurement Officer Risk Management Management 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

More recently, CARVER has converted a new community of believers in the business world, including CEOs, financial analysts, and risk management planners, not to mention any number of Fortune 500 security directors. (One of us, Luke, is so enthusiastic about CARVER that he cowrote a book on it.).

Tools 12

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 12

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 4, 2014

And isn’t lowering costs exactly what managers focused on shareholder value are supposed to be doing? We find the debate interesting because it offers a great example of reputation risk – and more specifically, of why such risk has to be assessed both quantitatively and qualitatively. We’d like to propose a solution.

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

You can make customers provide more rigorous authentication before they make a transaction, or have managers limit distribution of sensitive plans. Unfortunately, though, it's all too easy to grind your business to a halt with doctrinaire security policies.

Supply Chain 13

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 13

Leading Blog

APRIL 5, 2019

Should they make a big bet, hedge their position, or just wait and see? 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. When faced with uncertainty, how should leaders react?

Uncertainty 308

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 308

Harvard Business Review

JULY 10, 2014

There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. When results are strong, the manager basks in the glow, prestige, and compensation attached to outperformance. Collaboration Decision making Risk management'

Tversky 8

Tversky Kahneman Hedge Analysis 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 31, 2012

What makes this case of corporate accountability so important is that it is a discretionary matter of "private ordering" under JP Morgan risk management policies, not under a mandatory rule contained in Dodd-Frank. Risk for one part of the bank might not be appropriate for another part of the bank.

CIO 8

CIO Committee Risk Management Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 27, 2017

At some of the world’s most successful enterprises — Google, Netflix, Amazon, Alibaba, Facebook — autonomous algorithms, not talented managers, increasingly get the last word. Elite MBAs (Management by Algorithm) are the new normal. Top management would have to trust its computationally brilliant bidding software.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 2, 2013

Incidentally, Iksil was head of the Chief Investment Office, the purpose of which is to protect the bank by hedging some of its other riskier bets. And frankly, they still may not deter a true risk-loving, thrill-seeking cowboy trader — but then again, they aren''t really the ones you need to look out for.

Kahneman 8

Kahneman Tversky Hedge Banking 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2015

Organizational refers to the systems these leaders create to manage leadership throughout the organization and the application of organization systems to specific business conditions. People manager: To what extent do leaders build competence, commitment, and contribution of their people today and tomorrow?

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 8

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

Does a robot manage your money? A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. Kearney predicts that assets under “robo-management” will total $2.2

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 15, 2012

The bank's chief investment office, where the losses occurred, was charged with protecting JP Morgan from financial market volatility by trying to hedge bets made by other parts of the bank. It performed well during the financial crisis, and continued to deliver big returns in subsequent years.

Banking 9

Banking Hedge Constraint Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 13, 2010

And sophisticated hedge funds that employ armies of programmers to come up with anything that can give them an edge would have a field day searching for signs of strength or weakness or for any talk of upcoming deals. But competitors would surely invest much more effort.

Gordon 14

Gordon Hedge Public Relations Document 14

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

One European fund manager, for example, seeks to meet every individual nominated for the board at their investee firms. Importantly, boards need to set the right expectations with top management and should push back against overly aggressive pay demands. In the U.K. The remedy: make sure these directors don't dominate the committee.

Execution 10

Execution Committee Incentives Hedge 10

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The reasons are rooted partly in the pernicious nature of complexity, and partly in the way that human beings psychologically respond to risk. We rightfully add safety systems to things like planes and oil rigs, and hedge the bets of major banks, in an effort to encourage them to run safely yet ever-more efficiently.

Banking 8

Banking Crisis Hedge System 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2017

They represent content and digital rights management platforms (such as SingularDTV ), distributed venture funds (such as the the DAO , for decentralized autonomous organization), and even new platforms to make investing in ICOs and managing digital assets easy (such as ICONOMI ). ” Others are sure to follow suit.

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

In our survey of 30 Brazil country managers in October, 20 reported increased revenue growth, despite the country’s dysfunctional, scandal-ridden politics. Multinational companies should pressure-test 2018 sales targets and currency hedging against this scenario. When it comes to Brazil, the economy is picking up.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9