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Simple Ethics Rules for Better Risk Management

Harvard Business Review

But as more organizations fall prey to complex intangible risks, from unwanted disclosure due to rampant cyber threats to breaches of conduct driven by skewed incentive systems, the aperture of risk management is expanding from protecting the balance sheet to promoting ethical leadership and values-based decision making.

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Your Company Needs a More-Radical Board of Directors

Harvard Business Review

My guess is that while a poor balance sheet might cause restless sleep, it’s the thought of an incorrectly reported balance sheet that brings on night terrors. This is not surprising: Growing regulation, increased investor focus on governance issues, and scary new categories of corporate risk (e.g.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business Review

Our growing reliance on so many intelligent, connected devices is opening up the possibility of global-scale shutdowns. The good news is that natural disasters themselves, which Munich Re says caused $330 billion in economic losses globally in 2017, provide a template for how to mitigate the growing and catastrophic risk posed by AI.

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Saving the World Through Values-Driven Leadership | Rajeev Peshawaria

Peter Winick

But most companies and most people see ESG or environmental and social issues as either a cost problem or a compliance headache or a risk management framework. So ESG is seen as a risk management framework or a plus problem or a compliance. And so our risk management framework only get to choose how do you want to be?