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The Olympics as a Story of Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

Risk management is now at the heart of the governance model for the Olympic Games and the Olympic movement, and not only because of their growing scale and complexity. Since the 1980s, however, Games organizing committees have increasingly invested in teams and systems dedicated to the management of risk through internal controls.

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Has Jim Goodnight Cracked the Code of Corporate Culture?

Michael Lee Stallard

He spoke of using parallel processing, a form of artificial intelligence, to create new solutions that address thorny risk management issues faced by financial services institutions such as banks and insurance companies. Education is another field he mentioned. why is everyone smiling? why is everyone smiling?

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Making Matrix Organizations Actually Work

Harvard Business Review

Just in case you’ve forgotten, a manager in a matrix organization has two or more upward reporting lines to bosses who each represent a different business dimension, such as product, region, customer, capability, or function. The executives in charge of the various groups sit together naturally in the top management team.

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When Real-Time Intel Still Isn’t Fast Enough

Harvard Business Review

Information & technology Knowledge management Risk management' We will need to be faster. For more expert insights on the power of predictive analytics, see HBR’s Insight Center, Predictive Analytics in Practice.

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A Beekeeper's Perspective on Risk

Harvard Business Review

Professionally, I help large businesses manage risk by focusing on how their recruiting, compensation, training, and other systems encourage people to behave. Bees are masters at risk management. Take, for example, their approach toward the "too-big-to-fail" risk our financial sector famously took on.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 4 of 4

Strategy Driven

Crisis management is so much more than handling of the media. We therefore mounted a full-scope crisis management initiative that focused heavily on after-the-crisis help for the victims and their families. There are three aspects to Crisis Management and Preparedness. Body of Knowledge. Thinking Through the Strategies.

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When to Decentralize Decision Making, and When Not To

Harvard Business Review

By doing so they avoid the delays associated with information and approvals traveling up and down the management hierarchy. knowledge management and talent management); Activities that involve cross-unit arbitration, i.e. weighing alternatives and setting priorities (e.g., brands and capital).