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.

The capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a theoretical representation of the way financial markets behave. It can be used to estimate a company's cost...

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.

Despite the benefit of high profits, as well as the enjoyment of a position of leadership, a company that has a high market share is a tempting target...

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.

The pros and cons of relying on machine intelligence to de-risk human behavior.

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, […]

Leaders need to start thinking beyond 2021.

Products and services that rely on machine learning--computer programs that constantly absorb new data and adapt their decisions in response--don't always...