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  • 30 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new... View Details
  • 2006
  • Dissertation

Enterprise Risk Management in Action

By: Anette Mikes
The new Basel regulatory initiatives and a burgeoning risk management literature signify the rise of enterprise risk management (ERM) in the financial services sector. However, very little is known of the roles that risk management plays in organizations and how it... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Risk Management; Practice; Governance Controls; Value; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

The Musts of 2023

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. At fall reunions, we set up shop on campus and asked alumni about what media moved them this year. What changed their minds or their hearts. And their answers ran... View Details
  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Reunions 2023 Reunion Presentations At Reunions, HBS faculty and other thought leaders address a range of issues facing business and society. Program recordings and materials (slide deck, handouts, etc.) are made available only when permission is given View Details
  • July 2009 (Revised January 2012)
  • Case

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold

By: Anette Mikes
This case motivates a debate on the role of staff functions, such as risk management: what does it mean for them to be independent, and at the same time, to partner the business lines? The case describes the risk assessment process in the corporate banking arm of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Credit; Banks and Banking; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods
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  • February 2010 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
The case, in a non-profit project-oriented setting, introduces fundamental risk management principles and processes that are easily applicable to private sector settings. Gentry Lee, senior systems engineer and de-facto chief risk officer, is applying a new... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Governance; Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Risk Management; Projects; Aerospace Industry; United States
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  • March 2009 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: Deciding about "Megadeals"

By: Anette Mikes
Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in a corporate finance business. Chief executive Alastair Dowes has to decide if the risk governance process is adequate to uncover mega-risks... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Decision Making; Performance Evaluation; Credit; Balance and Stability; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Offer; Performance Effectiveness; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry
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  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment

the recent Climate Change Challenge assignment in Technology & Operations Management, a required first-year course taught by Mike Toffel, Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and BEI... View Details
  • 12 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 12

Framework Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Risk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • News

Alumni-Cofounded Company Sells to CVS for $10.6 Billion

Photo via LinkedIn Photo via LinkedIn The Wall Street Journal reported this week that health care giant CVS has agreed to purchase Oak Street Health, a “network of value-based primary care centers for adults on Medicare” that was cofounded View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Learning from the Kursk Submarine Rescue Failure: the Case for Pluralistic Risk Management

By: Anette Mikes and Amram Migdal
The Kursk, a Russian nuclear-powered submarine, sank in the relatively shallow waters of the Barents Sea in August 2000 during a naval exercise. Numerous survivors were reported to be awaiting rescue, and within a week, an international rescue party gathered at... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Groups and Teams; Crisis Management
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  • 01 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

advantage. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/11/how-great-companies-think-differently/ar/1 Managing the Multiple Dimensions of Risk—Part I Authors:Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes Publication:Balanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Building Iconic Brands and Brighter Futures: Interview with Glossier CEO, Kyle Leahy - Recruiting

of employees and a billion-dollar business. During this time, she also took on new roles in her personal life, marrying her husband Mike and becoming a mom to her two children. “My family is my north star,” says Leahy. “I want to take all... View Details
  • Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

opportunities. Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain The case describes Harvard University's consideration to decarbonize its supply chain by replacing cement with a low-carbon substitute called... View Details
  • Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

tool built by the trans community that addresses clinicians’ barriers around learning and advocacy. SeaCycle Hande Ilhan (MBA 2025) Jakob Spiess (MBA 2025) Social Enterprise Track Crowd Favorite Pioneering sustainable biopolymer... View Details
  • Web

Regional Winners - Alumni

2022, Co-founder & CEO Eric Gruskin, MBA 2022, Cofounder & COO Region: New York Codigo Codigo is a rapid software development platform which tools help developers accelerate Blockchain development by automating the generation of back-end... View Details
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

By: Anette Mikes
This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Managerial Roles
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  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle

By: Anette Mikes
Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Accounting; Conflict and Resolution; Trends; Financial Services Industry
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  • Web

Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Photography John D. Gordan, III Kheel Center, Cornell University Library of Congress Ambassador John L. Loeb, Jr. Mike Luckovich and Creators Syndicate The Metropolitan Museum of Art The New York Public Library New York Stock Exchange... View Details