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- February 2007
- Article
Reputation and Its Risks
By: Robert G. Eccles Jr., Scott C. Newquist and Roland Schatz
Eccles, Robert G., Jr., Scott C. Newquist, and Roland Schatz. "Reputation and Its Risks." Harvard Business Review 85, no. 2 (February 2007): 104–114.
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS professor Ben Edelman, an expert on... View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation
- Research Summary
Systematic Risk in the Housing Markets
A one-factor pricing model is employed to investigate the internal consistency of single family home and professionally-managed property prices during 1986-2006. The risk fac-tor used here is the US real estate index, which has much stronger explanatory power than the... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer
By: Anette Mikes
This paper tracks the evolution of the role of two chief risk officers (CROs), and the tools and processes they have implemented in their respective organizations. While the companies are from very different industries (one is a power company, the other is a toy... View Details
Mikes, Anette. "The Triumph of the Humble Chief Risk Officer." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-114, May 2014.
- July 9, 2009
- Editorial
Systemic Risk and the Fed
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "Systemic Risk and the Fed." Wall Street Journal (July 9, 2009).
- January 1992
- Article
Risk Reduction and Umbrella Branding
By: C. A. Montgomery and B. Wernerfelt
Montgomery, C. A., and B. Wernerfelt. "Risk Reduction and Umbrella Branding." Journal of Business 65, no. 1 (January 1992): 31–50.
- Article
You Can Manage Construction Risk
By: John D. Macomber
Macomber, John D. "You Can Manage Construction Risk." Harvard Business Review 67, no. 2 (March–April 1989).
How to Make Climate Risk Good Business
The risk profiles of many real estate markets are rapidly increasing globally. Insurers and mortgage brokers are taking note and adjusting their offering based on widely available climate data and predictive analytics. John Macomber suggests that consumers and... View Details
- Article
Leaving It to Chance"—Passive Risk Taking in Everyday Life
By: Ruti Keinan and Yoella Bereby-Meyer
While risk research focuses on actions that put people at risk, this paper introduces the concept of "passive risk"—risk brought on or magnified by inaction. We developed a scale measuring personal tendency for passive risk taking (PRT), validated it using a 150... View Details
Keinan, Ruti, and Yoella Bereby-Meyer. Leaving It to Chance"—Passive Risk Taking in Everyday Life." Judgment and Decision Making 7, no. 6 (November 2012): 705–715.
- 07 Mar 2022
- News
Risks to the Brain
- 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
Meyer, Kurt, Anette Mikes, and Robert S. Kaplan. "When Every Employee Is a Risk Manager." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (January 25, 2021).
- 2015
- Working Paper
Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians
By: Dylan Minor
When seeking new leaders, business and government organizations alike often need individuals that are less risk averse, or even risk-seeking, in order to improve performance. However, individuals amenable to increased risk-taking may be more likely to engage in... View Details
Minor, Dylan. "Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-073, January 2016.
- March 2013
- Supplement
FX Risk Hedging at EADS
By: W. Carl Kester
- 11 Feb 2011
- News
The Impact of Financing Risk on Innovative Startups
- 1996
- Chapter
Upside Opportunity and Downside Risk
By: Richard F. Meyer
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty
- Research Summary
Risk Measurement, Management, and Disclosure
Jorgensen's main research investigates managers' choices of measurement, management and disclosure of risk.
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- Working Paper
Interest-Rate Risk and Household Portfolios
By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller, James Paron and Natasha Sarin
How are households exposed to interest-rate risk? When rates fall, households face lower future expected returns but those holding long-term assets—disproportionately the wealthy and middle-aged—experience capital gains. We study the hedging demand for long-term assets... View Details
Keywords: Portfolio Choice; Social Security; Interest Rates; Investment Portfolio; Equality and Inequality; Welfare
Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, James Paron, and Natasha Sarin. "Interest-Rate Risk and Household Portfolios." Working Paper, October 2023. (Reject and Resubmit, American Economic Review.)
- 07 Sep 2012
- News