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  • January–February 2022
  • Article

Operational Disruptions, Firm Risk, and Control Systems

By: William Schmidt and Ananth Raman
Operational disruptions can impact a firm's risk, which manifests in a host of operational issues, including a higher holding cost for inventory, a higher financing cost for capacity expansion, and a higher perception of the firm's risk among its supply chain partners.... View Details
Keywords: Operational Risk; Operational Disruptions; Information Asymmetry; Control Systems; Operations; Disruption; Risk Management
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  • March 2024
  • Background Note

Physical Climate Risk

By: Michael W. Toffel, Spencer Glendon and Alison Smart
This note describes how managers can identify their company’s physical climate risks, which can heighten the risk of business disruption, change the costs of operations and supply chains, and affect the demand for their goods and services. The note also provides a... View Details
Keywords: Resilience; Maps; Climate Risk; Climate Impact; Modeling And Analysis; Climate Change; Risk Management; Demand and Consumers; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruption
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  • November 2016 (Revised December 2016)
  • Module Note

Strategy Execution Module 13: Identifying Strategic Risk

By: Robert Simons
This module reading begins by describing the three sources of strategic risk—operations risk, asset impairment risk, and competitive risk—and demonstrates how these risks can undermine an entire business. To assist in the identification of these risks, the risk... View Details
Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Risk Assessment; Operational Control; Asset Impairment; Franchise Risk; Fraud; Strategy; Information Management
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  • 2007
  • Article

Convictions, Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions

By: Anette Mikes
Making sense of operational risk practices in the financial services sector is a challenge. There is a temptation to explain the wide variety of approaches as a characteristic of the early stage of development in which the genre resides.
Based on the evidence of... View Details
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Conflict and Resolution; Organizations; Financial Services Industry
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  • Fall 2013
  • Article

Sustainable Operations Management: An Enduring Stream or a Passing Fancy?

By: David Drake and Stefan Spinler
Paul Kleindorfer was among the first to weigh in on and nurture the stream of Sustainable Operations Management. The thoughts laid out here are based on conversations we had with Paul relating to the drivers underlying sustainability as a management issue: population... View Details
Keywords: Sustainable Operations; Sustainability; Environment; Paul Kleindorfer; Management; Environmental Sustainability
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  • Article

Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970

By: G. Jones and Rachael Comunale
This article contributes to the literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin... View Details
Keywords: Political Risk; Emerging Market; Bribery; Business ＆ Government Relations; Turbulence; Violence; Risk and Uncertainty; Emerging Markets; Crime and Corruption; Business and Government Relations; Business History; India; Latin America
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    The Psychology of Risk Taking

    Taking risks has usually at least two, often many, outcomes, and balancing these outcomes has been the subject of much study. Prof. Bell has studied the impact of psychological consequences of decision making including regret, disappointment and (to come)... View Details

    • June 2017
    • Article

    Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?

    By: Nikolaos Trichakis, Dan A. Iancu and Gerry Tsoukalas
    We study the inefficiencies stemming from a firm's operating flexibility under debt. We find that flexibility in replenishing or liquidating inventory, by providing risk-shifting incentives, could lead to borrowing costs that erase more than a third of the firm's... View Details
    Keywords: Covenants; Risk-shifting; Inventory; Agency Costs; Debt Financing; Risk Management; Borrowing and Debt
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    • TeachingInterests

    Understanding and Influencing Operations as an Investor

    This course is designed to impart to students who plan to become investors an understanding of firms' operations, and to students, including entrepreneurs, planning to operate companies an understanding of how to interface with investors. The course also... View Details

    • January 2014
    • Other Article

    The Answer is 9,142: Understanding the Influence of Disruption Risk on Inventory Decision Making

    By: Mark Cotteleer, Maria Ibanez and Geri Gibbons
    The question was how many units of inventory a manager should order when faced with a possible disruption in supply. The correct answer is not guesswork, but based on 150 years of theory and practice. We examine individual choices made in this critical situation—and... View Details
    Keywords: Behavioral; Behavioral Operations; Inventory; Bias; Operations Management; Operations
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    • March 1999 (Revised April 1999)
    • Case

    Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Monica M Mandelli and Jennifer Burns
    Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human health, corporate profitability, or... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Generation; Supply Chain Management; Metals and Minerals; Management Systems; Management Teams; Trade; Vertical Integration; Energy Industry; Mining Industry
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    • Fast Answer

    Managing Global Operations

    market reports.   Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) In-depth ready to use reports give country, industry, and risk analysis. Reports in Country Commerce provide information on business practices and regulations such as human... View Details
    • Article

    MIT Roundtable on Corporate Risk Management

    By: Robert C. Merton

    Against the backdrop of financial crisis, a distinguished group of academics and practitioners discusses the contribution of financial management and innovation to corporate growth and value, along with the pitfalls and unintended consequences of such innovation.... View Details

    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Value; Distribution; Capital Structure; Risk Management; Business Ventures; Business Model; Strategy
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    • 15 Aug 2024
    • Op-Ed

    Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

    the trial runs. Technology: Use necessary technological tools to support assigned roles in crisis management, ensuring seamless operation and coordination, such as different modes of communication and documentation on and off the primary... View Details
    Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
    • 01 Mar 2012
    • News

    Competitiveness at Risk

    partnered with us. What do you mean by competitiveness? Porter: There’s widespread confusion about what competitiveness actually means, so our definition is a vital component of our work. When we talk about US competitiveness, we mean the ability of firms View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
    • Web

    Technology & Operations Management - Doctoral

    School of Business, Information, Risk and Operations Management Department Tommy Pan Fang, 2022 Rice University, Jones Graduate School of Business Michelle Shell, 2020 Boston University, Questrom School of... View Details
    • Program

    Risk Management for Corporate Leaders—Virtual

    Summary All organizations—even those with sophisticated models of risk exposure—are vulnerable to disaster. In most organizations, risk management attempts to avoid disasters by emphasizing compliance,... View Details
    • 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
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    • Other Unpublished Work

    Risk Aversion, Risk Premium and the Choice of Capital Projects

    By: S. Datar, R. Banker and B. Gopi
    Keywords: Risk Management; Cost vs Benefits; Infrastructure
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    • 15 Aug 2007
    • Op-Ed

    3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk

    expertise among the spaghetti bowl of supervisory bodies; second, encourage rating agencies to improve their modeling of new and complex derivative products; and third, induce new investors to evaluate the ratings issued by the agencies against improved internal View Details
    Keywords: by Mohamed El-Erian; Financial Services; Banking