Risk And Uncertainty - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy

that for CEOs of companies over $10 billion in revenues. My guess is that, given the increasing level of work required and personal risks run, a doubling of director compensation is an absolute minimum.... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

biotech companies—as a function of cost, time, and failure modes—tend to risk pivot on one program, one clinical trial, one outcome,” he observes. “Our company is the leader in mining muscle biology for drug... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2004
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Life Lessons

graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner; Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

23 Sep 2020
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Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method

change will require thoughtful action over several years,” say Otten and Kaplan. “Our biggest risk may be not to continue our work after the 2020 election, thereby not resolving these View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

times,” Datar notes, “it is our community that provides us comfort and our values that give us strength.” Note: Please see this page for guidance on contacting others in the HBS alumni network. HARVARD RESOURCES Scholars at View Details

11 Oct 2022
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Righting the Ship

When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

GPP—decreases the risk of relapse and overdose in patients fighting opioid addiction. Here, a 34-year-old woman takes a prescribed dose of methadone. Her addiction began when she was in the seventh grade.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

19 Feb 2020
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Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

sustainability risks and opportunities, has heard from a major technology company that they are considering the availability of renewable energy resources in site selection. “It has moved from being tenth on... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Mar 2025
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Heartland

Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.

01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback

companies now find their best customers in China and India, where U.S. technology products are in high demand. More importantly, the free flow of ideas and capital have created entrepreneurial hot spots... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

estate. Others call it a sea change. Whatever the choice of words, there’s broad agreement that the industry’s transformation has drained considerable risk out of a once notoriously unstable market. A new industry emerges Not so long ago,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Jun 2009
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Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs

outrageous. Others would argue that these are exceedingly high-skilled talents working brutal hours in an extremely demanding and competitive environment, that the firm was risking its own capital View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Sep 2010
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Reinventing the Annual Report

effectively with shareholders and other stakeholders, and lower reputational risk through a higher level of transparency. Given the importance of sustainability, companies have... View Details

Keywords: Robert G. Eccles

01 Oct 1997
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Short Takes

circumstances under which companies can, in terms of the environment, most successfully create value or lessen business risk. (An example of value created and risk reduced might be found with a newly... View Details

26 Jan 2021
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Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response

guests also talked about the leadership challenges of finding vaccine candidates, expediting clinical trials, and the need to invest billions without a clear sense of outcomes. Mango described it as a “portfolio strategy to manage... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

05 Apr 2020
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Launching in a World in Limbo

launch, the New York Times chronicled Whitman and Katzenberg’s challenging third act in a story called, “Two Veteran C.E.O.s Risk $1.8 Billion on a Streaming App. In a Pandemic.” Both led some of the biggest... View Details

30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas

risk of not being effective is a missed opportunity. It’s a very wide bandwidth you have to operate in, and it’s a challenging to stay within both ends of that spectrum.” View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Oct 2018
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Advancing Opportunities for Others

I had to ask myself, ‘What risk are you taking? You've been doing this for 20 years; you're good at it; you can do four or five deals in a week; and no other company knows that you're working on any other... View Details