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- June 2024
- Case
Virya Therapeutics: The Certain Uncertainties of Preclinical Development
By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks and Shardule Shah
- 18 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy
- 07 Jan 2015
- News
Taking on risk
Having worked as an engineer at SpaceX and as an analyst at Oaktree Capital, Zach Lupei (MBA 2015) is now building a startup in the personal-finance space. (Published January 2015) View Details
- 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.
- 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.
- 26 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism at Risk
- October 1989
- Exercise
At RISK Exercises
By: David E. Bell
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty
Bell, David E. "At RISK Exercises." Harvard Business School Exercise 190-063, October 1989.
- 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.
- Fast Answer
Companies: risk ratings
Where can I get company risk ratings? Bloomberg has company ratings on credit, corporate governance, and other aspects. Enter ticker symbol, hit EQUITY key, type RSKC, and hit... View Details
- Article
MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management
By: Robert C. Merton
Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy
Merton, Robert C. "MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 20, no. 4 (Fall 2008): 20–38.
- July 2003 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Managing Business Risk of Information Technology
By: Richard L. Nolan and Robert D. Austin
Sets up a situation in which participants must create presentations that assess the IT risk of a large company. View Details
Nolan, Richard L., and Robert D. Austin. "Managing Business Risk of Information Technology." Harvard Business School Case 604-004, July 2003. (Revised June 2004.)
- Program
Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual
Summary All organizations—even those with sophisticated models of risk exposure—are vulnerable to disaster. In most organizations, risk management attempts to avoid disasters by emphasizing compliance,... View Details
- August 1984 (Revised March 1994)
- Case
The Toro Company S'no Risk Program
By: David E. Bell
Toro introduced a promotion in which purchasers of their snowthrower would receive a refund if the next winter brought only modest snowfall. The principal focus of the class is to understand what the risk implications are for the customer and for the company. May be... View Details
Bell, David E. "The Toro Company S'no Risk Program." Harvard Business School Case 185-017, August 1984. (Revised March 1994.)
- 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.
- 15 May 2012
- Panel Discussion
Capitalism at Risk
By: Lynn S. Paine and Joseph L. Bower
- 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.
- 9 Feb 2012
- Keynote Speech
Capitalism at Risk
Paine, Lynn S., Joseph L. Bower, and Dutch Leonard. "Capitalism at Risk." Harvard Business School Virtual Learning Series, February 9, 2012.
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries