Publications

01 Dec 2009
News

The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer

Keywords: by Anette Mikes

Web

COVID-19 as a Novel Event and Risk Management Framework

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Article

When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager

By: Kurt Meyer, Anette Mikes and Robert S. Kaplan

Risk management needs to be part of the daily lives of all employees up, down, and across an organization. Here’s how the Swiss electricity network achieves that. View Details

Keywords: Employees; Risk Management

July 1998
Article

International Overborrowing: A Decomposition of Credit and Currency Risks

By: Ronald I. McKinnon and Huw Pill

June 2018 (Revised November 2020)
Course Overview Note

Investing in the 21st Century: Return, Risk and Impact

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi and Caitlin Reimers Brumme

April 2024
Case

Managing AI Risks in Consumer Banking

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Satish Tadikonda, Paul Dongha, Manoj Saxena and Radhika Kak

In early 2024, Ruth Jones, head of digital banking at Signa Bank, a (fictitious) European consumer bank, was thinking about how to best incorporate GenAI capabilities to improve efficiencies and create new ways to improve the customer experience. Where were the biggest... View Details

Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; AI and Machine Learning; Risk Management; Opportunities; Customization and Personalization; Banking Industry; Europe

Educators

June 2019
Supplement

Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk; Risk Tolerance Exercise

By: Shikhar Ghosh

01 Feb 2018
News

Ignore environmental, social and governance risks at your peril

2004
Other Unpublished Work

Capital and Value of Risk Transfer: Presented at Actuarial Approach for Financial Risks (AFIR) Colloquium, Boston, MA, November

By: K. Froot, G. Venter and J. Major

Keywords: Capital; Risk and Uncertainty

20 Feb 2022
News

Hong Kong: A Case Study of Managing in Extreme Uncertainty

1998
Article

Governance and Risk Taking in the U.S. Cable Television Industry

By: T. R. Eisenmann

Keywords: Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Television Entertainment; Media and Broadcasting Industry

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

Educators

January 2008
Article

Prudence in Bargaining: The Effect of Uncertainty on Bargaining Outcomes

By: Lucy White

Keywords: Negotiation; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result

June 2020
Case

Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A)

By: Laura Huang, Elizabeth Jiang and Brandon Yu

Career Karma is a startup focused on helping individuals looking to transition careers into computer engineering roles or similar fields by preparing them for formal technical training programs, or “coding bootcamps,” that would lead to a successful career pivot upon... View Details

Educators

2023
Working Paper

Who Invests in Crypto? Wealth, Financial Constraints, and Risk Attitudes

By: Darren Aiello, Scott R. Baker, Tetyana Balyuk, Marco Di Maggio, Mark J. Johnson and Jason Kotter

We provide a first look into the drivers of household cryptocurrency investing. Analyzing consumer transaction data for millions of U.S. households, we find that, except for high income early adopters, cryptocurrency investors resemble the general population. These... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Finance; Cryptocurrency; Fintech; Inflation; Portfolio Choice; Stimulus; Consumer Behavior; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment

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