Risk management

How companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure.

Strategies to help companies mitigate the legal risk and ensure they're in compliance with the law.

Smart companies match their approach to the nature of the threats they face.

A top-down approach doesn't work anymore.

Increasingly, multinational corporations (MNCs) are pledging to procure the materials and services they need from companies committed to fair labor practices...

The U.S.-China trade war and the supply and demand shocks brought on by the Covid-19 crisis are forcing manufacturers everywhere to reassess their supply...

Regulators, industry groups, consultants, and individual companies have developed elaborate guidelines over the years for assessing and managing risks...

Three steps for leaders to take.

For years public concern about technological risk has focused on the misuse of personal data. But as firms embed more and more artificial intelligence...

Strategy making forces executives to confront a future they can only guess at. It's not surprising, then, that they try to make the task less daunting...

No company can afford to underestimate the long-term financial costs.

An important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […]

The average cost of a data breach reached $4.35 million in 2022, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report in 2022.

In recent years, a growing number of business practitioners and theorists have postulated that one way for a company to increase its return is by increasing its market share, and studies appear to have confirmed this relationship. But the authors of this article refuse to accept the blanket inference that “more” is necessarily always going […]

Managers should make environmental investments for the same reason they make other investments: because they expect them to deliver positive returns or to reduce risks.

Companies should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Less than a decade after the frantic merger activity of the late 1960s, we are again in the midst of a major wave of corporate acquisitions. In contrast to the 1960s, when acquirers were mainly freewheeling conglomerates, the merger movement in the 1970s includes such long-established giants of U.S. industry as General Electric, Gulf Oil, […]

Daniel Isenberg on why "embracing failure" to encourage entrepreneurship is bad policy.

The star of the 2018 Oscar-winning documentary "Free Solo" talks about how he prepares for climbs, the way he thinks about risk, and what's next now that...

Putting change into action isn't always a one-size-fits-all approach. Four practices will help you find the path that works best for your team.