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Why Quants Should Manage Your Supply Chain Risk

Harvard Business Review

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 reduction in value is present and represents a cost today , not tomorrow.

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4 Assumptions About Risk You Shouldn’t Be Making

Harvard Business Review

Most executives know that the present value of an investment comes from projecting its cash flows and discounting those numbers into today’s dollars. The general rule is projects with positive net present values should get funded, and those with negative ones shouldn’t.

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Match Your Innovation Process to the Results You Want

Harvard Business Review

When forced to present familiar metrics for truly out-of-the-box "beginning" ideas, work teams develop what our friend Jay Paap calls "Imaginary Numbers."

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