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 11

Tools Risk Management Budgeting SWOT 11

Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2012

Which is why managing those arguments, as Ina Drew appears to have done brilliantly during the financial crisis but wasn't around to do for the past couple of years, is so important. The words "risk management" usually evokes less subjective, more data-driven pursuits. MORE ON MANAGING RISKY BEHAVIORS.

Management 10

Management Risk Management Competitive Intelligence Hedge 10

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

AUGUST 4, 2014

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. Over the decades, risk management has become a deeply quantitative endeavor. Public relations Risk management Transparency'

Reputation 9

Reputation Risk Management Supply Chain Crisis 9

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

As one chief information security officer for a global bank said, "If we did all the security checks we'd like to before connecting with new hedge fund customers, they would just take their business across the street.". Unfortunately, though, it's all too easy to grind your business to a halt with doctrinaire security policies.

Supply Chain 12

Supply Chain Risk Management Hedge Banking 12

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

JULY 10, 2014

I work in the investment business, where risk-taking is an occupational necessity. There isn’t anyone successful at managing a mutual or hedge fund who avoids risk; we just need to face it carefully. Collaboration Decision making Risk management'

Tversky 8

Tversky Kahneman Hedge Analysis 8

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 309

Uncertainty Sports Credit Rating Learning-by-Doing 309

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

JANUARY 27, 2017

These organizations are fully committed to letting algorithmic autonomy take the enterprise to new frontiers of innovation, profitability, and risk. Machine learning algorithms stress-test and risk-manage other machine learning algorithms. Their results should humble those who privilege human agency.

Outsourcing 8

Outsourcing Software CAPEX Competitive Advantage 8

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

APRIL 3, 2015

Equity investors (venture capitalists, private equity, portfolio managers, mutual/hedge fund managers) will use this index to complement existing financial and intangible analysis and gain a more thorough and rigorous understanding of firm’s full market value.

Marketing 8

Marketing Leadership Venture Capitalist GAAP 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. But, from newspaper reports, it appears to be another high-return financial business gone bad.

Banking 9

Banking Hedge Constraint Operations 9

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2018

These robo-advisors may be used to automate certain aspects of risk management and provide decisions that are ethical and compliant with regulation. Robo-advisors have the potential to deliver a broader array of advice and there may be a range of specialized tools in particular decision domains.

Consultative 8

Consultative Strategy Advice McKinsey 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 8, 2012

The board of a Canadian pension fund with a significant in-house investment function made it clear to senior managers that they would be well compensated relative to society, but their pay would never reach the levels of hedge funds and private equity firms.).

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

Menlo Park venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz joined USV in investing in Polychain Capital , a hedge fund that only buys tokens. The New York–based venture capital firm Union Square Ventures (USV) broadened its investment strategy so that it could buy ICOs directly. Is this the end of banking as we know it?

Finance 8

Finance IPO Banking Venture Capitalist 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Multinational companies should pressure-test 2018 sales targets and currency hedging against this scenario. While North Korea tops most foreign observers’ Asia risk list, China has been laying the groundwork for superpower confrontation in the South China Sea.

Market Risk 9

Market Risk Marketing Supply Chain Company 9