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- 11 Jan 2014
- Conference Presentation
Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes
- November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
General Motors Corporation: Retiree Benefit Risk Management (A)
By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
General Motors issues $17 billion and uses $10 billion to reduce an unfunded pension obligation. View Details
Hawkins, David F., and Jacob Cohen. "General Motors Corporation: Retiree Benefit Risk Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 104-041, November 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 07 Jul 2020
- Podcast
Incorporating Climate Risk in Pension Fund Investment Decisions
Hiro Mizuno, former head of the Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF), and Professor Vikram Gandhi discuss the steps GPIF has taken to incorporate climate risk in its investment process. Mizuno highlights the need to address the entire investment universe... View Details
- 09 Dec 2008
- News
Washington Takes Risks With Its Auto Bailout Plans
- 07 Jun 2009
- News
Bank of America Ousts Head of Risk Oversight
- January 1995
- Teaching Note
Allied-Signal: Managing the Hazardous Waste Liability Risk (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-793-044). View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy
- Research Summary
Contract Rights and Risk Aversion: Foreign Banks and the Mexican Economy, 1997-2004
In 1997 Mexicos banking laws were reformed, allowing foreign banks, for the first time since the nineteenth century, to purchase controlling interests in the countrys largest banks. Foreign banks controlled 16 percent of Mexican bank assets in March 1997. By June... 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.
- 1997
- Other Unpublished Work
Maximizing Corporate Shareholder Value Using Risk Profile Dynamics
By: Marc L Bertoneche and Samir Asaf
- 1993
- Article
Interest Rate Parity and the Exchange Risk Premium
By: E. S. Mayfield and R. Murphy
Mayfield, E. S., and R. Murphy. "Interest Rate Parity and the Exchange Risk Premium." Economics Letters (1993).
- September 1982
- Article
Risk Aversion and the Negotiation of Insurance Contracts
By: R. Kihlstrom and A. E. Roth
Kihlstrom, R., and A. E. Roth. "Risk Aversion and the Negotiation of Insurance Contracts." Journal of Risk and Insurance 49 (September 1982): 372–387.
- January 2005
- Article
Business Groups and Risk Sharing Around the World
By: Tarun Khanna and Yishay Yafeh
Khanna, Tarun, and Yishay Yafeh. "Business Groups and Risk Sharing Around the World." Journal of Business 78, no. 1 (January 2005): 301–340.
- 6 Aug 2013
- Conference Presentation
Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes
- 2004
- Working Paper
Contract Rights and Risk Aversion: Foreign Banks and the Mexican Economy, 1997-2004
By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
In 1997 Mexico allowed foreign banks unrestricted entry to the market. What impact did foreign mergers and acquisitions have on Mexico's banks? We find that all banks in Mexico have become increasingly risk averse, and that foreign banks are even more so. Foreign banks... View Details
- 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.
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
companies from Germany dealt with the incarceration of thousands of their German national employees in India during World War I and World War II in her recent working paper, Countering Political Risk in Colonial India: German... View Details
- 09 Nov 2012
- Working Paper Summaries