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- January 2005
- Article
Agency Costs in a Supply Chain with Demand Uncertainty and Price Competition
By: V.G. Narayanan, Ananth Raman and J. Singh
Narayanan, V.G., Ananth Raman, and J. Singh. "Agency Costs in a Supply Chain with Demand Uncertainty and Price Competition." Management Science 51, no. 1 (January 2005).
- Research Summary
International business and political risk in West Africa
This project, based on confidential corporate archives, explores the response of foreign companies to political decolonization and the threat of expropriation in Ghana and Nigeria. Foreign companies in Ghana and Nigeria, especially those from Britain, had a... View Details
- November – December 2009
- Article
Risk Management and the Strategy Execution System
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Risk Management and the Strategy Execution System." Balanced Scorecard Report 11, no. 6 (November–December 2009): 1–6.
- 2003
- Working Paper
Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility
By: Mario Draghi, Francesco Giavazzi and Robert C. Merton
Draghi, Mario, Francesco Giavazzi, and Robert C. Merton. "Transparency, Risk Management and International Financial Fragility." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 03-118, June 2003. (Also NBER Working Paper Series, No. 9806.)
- Teaching Interest
Risk Management for Corporate Leaders
By: Robert Simons
As companies adapt to the aftershocks of the global recession, senior executives and boards are discovering that risk management has never been more important. The financial crisis revealed that risk management structures break down just when... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and Financial Stability
- June 2024
- Case
Virya Therapeutics: The Certain Uncertainties of Preclinical Development
By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks and Shardule Shah
- 2016
- Working Paper
Options-Pricing Formula with Disaster Risk
By: Robert J. Barro and Gordon Y. Liao
A new options-pricing formula applies to far-out-of-the money put options on the overall stock market when disaster risk is the dominant force, the size distribution of disasters follows a power law, and the economy has a representative agent with Epstein-Zin utility.... View Details
Barro, Robert J., and Gordon Y. Liao. "Options-Pricing Formula with Disaster Risk." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21888, January 2016.
- spring 1990
- Article
Earnings and Risk Changes Surrounding Primary Stock Offers
By: Paul M. Healy and Krishna G. Palepu
Healy, Paul M., and Krishna G. Palepu. "Earnings and Risk Changes Surrounding Primary Stock Offers." Journal of Accounting Research 28, no. 1 (spring 1990): 25–48.
- 18 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy
- Teaching Interest
Risk Management for Corporate Leaders
As companies adapt to the aftershocks of the global recession, risk management is a top priority for their senior executives and boards—and for those of nonprofit and public-sector enterprises as well. The financial crisis revealed that risk management processes cannot... View Details
- February 2021
- Case
Veracity Worldwide: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risk
By: Kristin Fabbe
Fabbe, Kristin. "Veracity Worldwide: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Risk." Harvard Business School Case 721-035, February 2021.
- October 2008
- Article
Risk Frameworks and Biomonitoring: Distributed Regulation of Synthetic Chemicals in Humans
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
The ability to detect and measure the presence of synthetic chemicals at trace levels in humans coupled to increased environmental NGO mobilization concerning chemical exposure has challenged risk and regulatory frameworks built up over the past quarter-century. This... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Risk Management; Natural Environment; Pollutants; Non-Governmental Organizations; United States
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Risk Frameworks and Biomonitoring: Distributed Regulation of Synthetic Chemicals in Humans." Environmental History 13, no. 4 (October 2008): 684–694.
- 2010
- Chapter
Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents
By: Dutch Leonard and Arnold M. Howitt
The world has seen a number of recent events in which major systems came to a standstill, not from one cause alone but from the interaction of a combination of causes. System-level accidents occur when anomalies or errors in different parts of an interconnected system... View Details
Leonard, Dutch, and Arnold M. Howitt. "Understanding and Coping with the Increasing Risk of System-Level Accidents." In Integrative Risk Management: Advanced Disaster Recovery, edited by Simon Woodward. Zurich, Switzerland: Swiss Re, Centre for Global Dialogue, 2010.
- July 2008 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)
By: Anette Mikes
An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Knowledge Sharing; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Situation or Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)." Harvard Business School Case 109-001, July 2008. (Revised January 2012.)
- June 2010
- Case
Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)
By: Anette Mikes
An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
Mikes, Anette. "Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (Multimedia)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 110-707, June 2010.
- 2018
- Working Paper
Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970
By: Geoffrey Jones and Rachael Comunale
This working paper provides a new perspective on how businesses have responded to political risk in South Asia and Latin America over the last half century. The existing business history literature on political risk is focused on the experiences of Western... View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Risk Management; Government and Politics; Business History; South Asia; Latin America
Jones, Geoffrey, and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-102, May 2018.
- 2021
- Other Unpublished Work
Risk Perception, Tort Liability, and Emerging Technologies
By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Galasso, Alberto, and Hong Luo. "Risk Perception, Tort Liability, and Emerging Technologies." Brookings Institution, March 2021.
- February 2013
- Supplement
Boston University: Managing Reputation and Risk (C)
By: Dutch Leonard, James Honan and Kerry Herman
- October 2009
- Article
Managing Risk in the New World
Five experts gathered recently to discuss the future of enterprise risk management: Kaplan, the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School, who with his colleague David Norton developed the balanced scorecard; Mikes, an assistant professor at HBS who studies... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Capital Structure; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Risk Management
Kaplan, Robert S., Anette Mikes, Robert Simons, Peter Tufano, and Michael Hofmann Jr. "Managing Risk in the New World." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 10 (October 2009): 68–75.