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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

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. The rise of Olympic risk management is certainly evident at the level of the IOC, the guardian of the Games.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Body of Knowledge. Protection of status and utilization of organizational working knowledge, management’s activities and relationships with regulators. Prevention of leaks in customer information and losses in company market position. The Big Picture.

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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

He spoke of using parallel processing, a form of artificial intelligence, to create new solutions that address thorny risk management issues faced by financial services institutions such as banks and insurance companies. Education is another field he mentioned. why is everyone smiling?

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When Real-Time Intel Still Isn’t Fast Enough

Harvard Business Review

Information & technology Knowledge management Risk management' We will need to be faster. For more expert insights on the power of predictive analytics, see HBR’s Insight Center, Predictive Analytics in Practice.

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

Soft-wiring relies on more informal, organic, voluntary, temporary, or one-off instruments, such as an ad-hoc multi-dimensional task force, an annual corporate planning cycle, an advisory council, a central coordination function, or a company-wide knowledge management system. For example, the U.S.

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A Beekeeper's Perspective on Risk

Harvard Business Review

Bees are masters at risk management. Take, for example, their approach toward the "too-big-to-fail" risk our financial sector famously took on. Knowledge management is also essential. Honeybees have a failsafe preventive for that. It's: "Don't get too big."

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

Think, for example, of the internal audit or occupational safety functions in general, or the risk management function in banks, as the Basel III regulatory framework stipulates that this function should be “under the direction of a chief risk officer (CRO), with sufficient stature, independence, resources and access to the board.”