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- July 1983
- Background Note
Risk and Return in the Capital Markets
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Risk and Return in the Capital Markets." Harvard Business School Background Note 284-001, July 1983.
- September 2002 (Revised August 2003)
- Case
Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Andrew N. McLean
In Egypt, Genzyme's humanitarian commitment to treat all sufferers of the rare Gaucher disease worldwide first confronts its commercial imperative to recoup the huge investment required to bring the drug Cerezyme to market. Here Tomye Tierney must decide how to balance... View Details
Keywords: Moral Sensibility; Investment; Emerging Markets; Negotiation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Sales; Commercialization; Expansion; Value Creation
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Andrew N. McLean. "Genzyme's Gaucher Initiative: Global Risk and Responsibility." Harvard Business School Case 303-048, September 2002. (Revised August 2003.)
- 2003
- Book
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. Vol. 4, Geneva Reports on the World Economy. International Center for Monetary and Banking Studies, 2003.
- Article
Opportunities and Risks of Durable Goods Promotion
By: John A. Quelch, Scott A. Neslin and Lois B. Olson
Quelch, John A., Scott A. Neslin, and Lois B. Olson. "Opportunities and Risks of Durable Goods Promotion." MIT Sloan Management Review 28, no. 2 (Winter 1987): 27–38.
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Road to Successful Bundled Payment Risk
- 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.
- July 2021 (Revised February 2022)
- Technical Note
RegTech: A New Way to Manage Risks
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Barnett
A note on regulatory technology (RegTech) describing its evolution, use cases, and the competitive environment in 2021. View Details
Keywords: Regulatory Technology; Change; Financial Management; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Technology; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry
Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and James Barnett. "RegTech: A New Way to Manage Risks." Harvard Business School Technical Note 122-004, July 2021. (Revised February 2022.)
- 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.
- August 2017
- Supplement
Accounting for Political Risk at AES (B)
By: Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Suraj Srinivasan
Supplement to the (A) case, HBS No. 118-023. View Details
Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo, and Suraj Srinivasan. "Accounting for Political Risk at AES (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 118-024, August 2017.
- February 2013
- Supplement
Boston University: Managing Reputation and Risk (C)
By: Dutch Leonard, James Honan and Kerry Herman
- January 2004 (Revised April 2011)
- Teaching Note
Farmington Industries,Inc.: Managing Currency Exposure Risk (TN)
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Teaching Note to 104053. View Details
- October 1992 (Revised August 1994)
- Case
Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Edward Prewitt
Allied-Signal, Inc., one of the world's oldest chemical companies and today a diversified conglomerate, is liable for clean-up costs of old hazardous waste sites. These costs are substantial: reserves grew to nearly $500 million in 1991. Attempting to avoid further... View Details
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Environmental Sustainability; Programs; Cost Management; Policy; Government Legislation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Governance Compliance; Legal Liability; Chemical Industry; United States; Europe
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Edward Prewitt. "Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk." Harvard Business School Case 793-044, October 1992. (Revised August 1994.)
- 23 Apr 2015
- News
How to Embrace Healthy Risk in Investing
- 22 Jun 2014
- News
Pension funds urged to publish climate risks
- October 2021
- Article
Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks
By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details
Keywords: Transparency; Reporting; Shareholder Engagement; Shareholder Activism; Climate Change; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Management; Investment Activism; Corporate Disclosure; Communication Strategy; Information Publishing; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; United States
Flammer, Caroline, Michael W. Toffel, and Kala Viswanathan. "Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks." Strategic Management Journal 42, no. 10 (October 2021): 1850–1879. (Featured in Harvard Business Review.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment
By: Flip Klijn, Joana Pais and Marc Vorsatz
We experimentally investigate in the laboratory two prominent mechanisms that are employed in school choice programs to assign students to public schools. We study how individual behavior is influenced by preference intensities and risk aversion. Our main results show... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Education; Marketplace Matching; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Personal Characteristics
Klijn, Flip, Joana Pais, and Marc Vorsatz. "Preference Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-093, April 2010.
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
Every bet—large or small, corporate or personal—puts you into a game. And whatever the game, at some point your participation ends. Sometimes it ends because the game is over for all the players, sometimes because your participation is terminated by others, and... View Details
- February 2013
- Supplement
Boston University: Managing Reputation and Risk (B)
By: Dutch Leonard, James Honan and Kerry Herman
- February 2013
- Case
Boston University: Managing Reputation and Risk (A)
By: Dutch Leonard, James Honan and Kerry Herman
- April 1999
- Teaching Note
Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation TN
Teaching Note for (9-799-062). View Details