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Risk Management

The Risks of High-Frequency Trading

Irene Aldridge | Posted 03.29.2013 | Business
Irene Aldridge

The trading risks of HFT may decimate the HFT operation and at the same time greatly affect other market participants. Particularly, in selected markets, unchecked HFT may quickly incur considerable losses, well in excess of any tolerable limits.

Design Performance, Risk Perception & Preferences

Soren Petersen | Posted 05.07.2013 | Business
Soren Petersen

The best strategy seems to be taking more risk early on in the process when exploring opportunities and then continuously clarifying and reducing risk as criteria and design crystallize.

Culture as Risk Mitigant: Cockpit, Country and Company

Lutfey Siddiqi | Posted 04.23.2013 | Business
Lutfey Siddiqi

The practice of risk management -- perhaps business management as a whole -- is too dependent on that which is quantifiable. Culture should not be delegated to the status of an amorphous add-on. It is front and center to the challenge of risk resilience.

JPMorgan Won't Pay Fine For $6 Billion Loss

AP | By MARCY GORDON | Posted 03.16.2013 | Business

WASHINGTON (AP) — JPMorgan Chase & Co. has been ordered to take steps to correct poor risk management that led to a surprise trading loss last year ...

'Trust, But Verify' Creditworthiness

Mary Ellen Biery | Posted 02.13.2013 | Small Business
Mary Ellen Biery

More than four years after the peak of the U.S. financial crisis, bankers, businesses and borrowers still remain cautious about their exposure to risk.

PMC = Protean Military Contractor

David Isenberg | Posted 12.03.2012 | Business
David Isenberg

There are many ways to think about private military and security contractor (PMSC) issues. They include, of course, military, but also business, law, ...

Innovation Balancing Act

Robert F. Brands | Posted 01.13.2013 | Business
Robert F. Brands

The formula for success in innovation is about finding the middle ground, walking the tightrope between risk and innovation; between ideation and value creation.

Should Companies Care If Hurricane Sandy Was "Caused" By Climate Change?

Andrew Winston | Posted 01.05.2013 | Green
Andrew Winston

The scene around my Connecticut home is not pretty, with downed trees and power lines everywhere. It's a serious time, and a time for some serious questions. Why did this happen?

Throw Out Your Plans for 2013: Business Is a Journey

Dov Seidman | Posted 01.01.2013 | Business
Dov Seidman

A journey takes two directions. It's a deep internal examination of our values, and an external demonstration of those values. Both require new thinking, and here are some ways to start.

Is Loss of Humanity the Real Risk of Risk Management?

Stuart Muszynski | Posted 11.24.2012 | Business
Stuart Muszynski

I believe the trend to disconnect ourselves from human consequences while focusing on numbers only is as potentially destructive to the future of businesses that depend on customer relationships as it has been to the political process

Shoes, Priorities And Economics

Ike Ikokwu | Posted 11.12.2012 | Black Voices
Ike Ikokwu

While some may look at the booming sales of such an extravagant item as a sign of a recovering economy, I caution that optimism. How many customers are on food stamps, welfare, or unemployment?

What Are Boards Thinking About as They Go Back to the Boardroom?

Lucy P. Marcus | Posted 11.10.2012 | Business
Lucy P. Marcus

I worked with a number of boards and board chairs over the summer, and here are the things on their minds and the things they'll be grappling with this autumn, above and beyond the usual business of the year.

8 Tips to Avoid Investing in a Ponzi Scheme

Ike Ikokwu | Posted 10.28.2012 | Home
Ike Ikokwu

Whether it's one million or ten million, people will still fall prey to these schemes until they pay attention to some basic rules of thumb to help you avoid them.

Facebook: Great Social Platform... Bad Investment

Ike Ikokwu | Posted 10.21.2012 | Home
Ike Ikokwu

So while Facebook was once a great social media platform, both individual and corporate users are calling to question its relevance and the return on investment from using this platform.

Calculated Risk: Wild Dogs, Caged Monkeys and... Texting?

Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D. | Posted 10.21.2012 | Healthy Living
Dr. Gregory Jantz, Ph.D.

Sometimes it works to take a calculated risk. Sometimes it doesn't. The challenge is to decide when you can't be wrong.

Win Without Losing... Money

Ike Ikokwu | Posted 10.14.2012 | Home
Ike Ikokwu

Managing my wealth this way allowed me to achieve financial independence at the age of 34 as well as avoid the market crashes of 2008 and 2009.

Compliance Is Not Leadership

John Friedman | Posted 09.30.2012 | Business
John Friedman

It does not qualify as leadership when an organization is satisfied at being among the best (or is the best) at meeting the minimum standards. Relying on the failure or malfeasance of others in your space is not a valid business model.

Risk Management: What if Cuomo Greenlights Fracking?

Kyle Rabin | Posted 09.12.2012 | New York
Kyle Rabin

If Governor Cuomo opens New York State to fracking, experts who analyze its impacts and have studied the toxic and environmental outcomes of Love Canal and the BP oil rig explosion predict similar long-term consequences.

Embracing Risk in Career Decisions

Ron Ashkenas | Posted 08.19.2012 | Business
Ron Ashkenas

Career decisions need to start not with risks, but creating a prioritized list of "happiness criteria," or aspects that will critically determine your long-term satisfaction.

Four Reasons Your Small Business Needs Risk Management

Chitra Nawbatt | Posted 08.18.2012 | Small Business
Chitra Nawbatt

As an entrepreneur, is risk management something you think about or even think applies to your business? What is risk management anyway?

JPMorgan Unit Responsible For Huge Loss Played By Different Rules

Reuters | Posted 07.16.2012 | Business

By Matt Scuffham and Edward Taylor LONDON/FRANKFURT, May 16 (Reuters) - The JPMorgan Chase & Co. unit that lost more than $2 billi...

Risk-Taking Women Will Destroy World, Say Male Economists

The Huffington Post | Mark Gongloff | Posted 03.28.2012 | Business

In the male-female divide, women are the careful ones, right? The ones more likely than men to buckle their seatbelts, less likely to funnel whiskey a...

Business Strategies for the Creative Economy

Soren Petersen | Posted 04.24.2012 | Arts
Soren Petersen

What differentiates entrepreneurial ventures in the creative economy is their dependence on one or a few individuals' intangible breakthrough ideas as opposed to raw material, property and energy.

How to Manage Risk of Stock Investments Today?

Irene Aldridge | Posted 03.26.2012 | Business
Irene Aldridge

With globalization reshaping traditional business models, domestic stock-issuing firms are under increasing margin-reducing pressure from lean foreign competitors.

What Puts High Achievers at Risk?

Lisa Arie | Posted 02.08.2012 | Business
Lisa Arie

It is critical to the careers and business success of high achievers to be able to connect to and understand how to use their sense of vulnerability. You are at risk until you engage this critical sense.