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Transferring Risk Helps Relieve Leaders’ Biggest Fears

Chief Executive

Political risk insurance is a highly specialized form of insurance that protects a company’s assets, investments, or contractual rights in foreign countries from losses caused by political events happening abroad. While not confirmed, Russia is the primary suspect.

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How a Cyber Attack Could Cause the Next Financial Crisis

Harvard Business Review

Ever since the forced bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers triggered the financial crisis 10 years ago, regulators, risk managers, and central bankers around the globe have focused on shoring up banks’ ability to withstand financial shocks. Peter Dazeley/Getty Images.

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How Blockchain Is Changing Finance

Harvard Business Review

Money, equities, bonds, titles, deeds, contracts, and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved and stored securely, privately, and from peer to peer, because trust is established not by powerful intermediaries like banks and governments, but by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration, and clever code.

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How the U.S. Navy is Responding to Climate Change

Harvard Business Review

Forest Reinhardt and Michael Toffel, Harvard Business School professors, talk about how a giant, global enterprise that operates and owns assets at sea level is fighting climate change—and adapting to it. Reinhardt and Toffel are the authors of “ Managing Climate Change: Lessons from the U.S.

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To Guard Against Cybercrime, Follow the Money

Harvard Business Review

Spear-phishing emails have been used in many of the most notorious attacks, including the 2017 French presidential election and the infamous attack on the Democratic National Committee. What suppliers or partners have access to your digital assets? Integrate email security into your organization’s risk management program.

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Robo-Advisers Are Coming to Consulting and Corporate Strategy

Harvard Business Review

A study by Deloitte estimated that “assets under automated management” (including hybrid offerings) in the U.S. This would represent between 10% and 15% of total retail financial assets under management. At the end of 2016, Fitch Ratings estimated that all robo-advisors managed under U.S.$100B

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What Investors Need to Know About Zimbabwe After Mugabe

Harvard Business Review

After being denounced for years for its dictatorship and destructive economic policies, Zimbabwe entered a new chapter in November 2017, following the military’s removal of president Robert Mugabe, who ruled the country for 37 years. ALEXANDER JOE/Getty Images.