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Risk Management Summaries

Doing business always bears risks, such as a supply shortfall or even a black swan, like the 2008 stock market crash. Learn what strategies risks managers have up their sleeves to preempt these perils.

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Aspects of Complexity

Terry Cooke-Davies

Project Mgmt Inst., 2011

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3 months ago

The Handbook of International Trade and Finance

Anders Grath

Kogan Page, 2012

(8)

3 months ago

Industrial Megaprojects

Edward W. Merrow

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011

(9)

4 months ago

Intellectual Property Strategy

John Palfrey

MIT Press, 2012

(8)

6 months ago

Risk Intelligence

Dylan Evans

Free Press, 2012

(8)

6 months ago

Single Point of Failure

Gary S. Lynch

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009

(8)

10 months ago

How to Measure Anything
 

Douglas W. Hubbard

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010

(8)

1 year ago

Surviving and Thriving in Uncertainty

Frederick Funston and Stephen Wagner

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010

(8)

1 year ago

The Most Important Thing
 

Howard Marks

Columbia UP, 2011

(7)

1 year ago

Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management
 

John J. Hampton

AMACOM, 2009

(8)

3 years ago

No One Would Listen
 

Harry Markopolos

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010

(9)

3 years ago

How Risky Is It, Really?

David Ropeik

McGraw-Hill, 2010

(8)

3 years ago

Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times
 

Stephen R. Covey et al.

FranklinCovey Publishing, 2009

(8)

3 years ago

Strategic Risk Taking

Aswath Damodaran

Wharton School Publishing, 2007

(8)

3 years ago

Owning Up
 

Ram Charan

Jossey-Bass, 2009

(9)

3 years ago

Streetwise Credit and Collections

Suzanne Caplan

Adams Media, 2006

(7)

3 years ago

Plight of the Fortune Tellers
 

Riccardo Rebonato

Princeton UP, 2007

(8)

4 years ago

Organized Uncertainty
 

Michael Power

Oxford UP, 2007

(6)

4 years ago

Crisis Communication
 

Peter F. Anthonissen

Kogan Page, 2008

(8)

4 years ago

The Fat Tail
 

Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat

Oxford UP, 2009

(9)

4 years ago

Against the Gods
 

Peter L. Bernstein

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996

(8)

4 years ago

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Risk Management

No executive likes to ponder worst-case scenarios, but any business that ignores the reality of risk management is flirting with disaster. Organizations must be prepared to deal with all potential risks and devise comprehensive plans to eliminate or mitigate negative events. getAbstract can help you protect your business by offering insightful advice culled from the latest risk management books on the market. Formulating effective risk management solutions first requires you to identify the threats that can interrupt your operation. Many of the summaries in this critically important category will alert you to potential problems you may have never anticipated. Risk can assume many forms, including production failures, security breaches, legal issues, financial market downturns and natural disasters. Your company’s ability to overcome adversity depends on a thorough and frank assessment of your risk factors and their possible consequences. getAbstract will help you to not only recognize lurking dangers, but to assemble a practical risk management plan of action.

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Regardless of your industry, the size of your organization, or your company culture, getAbstract will lay out the fundamentals of risk management. You’ll learn how to strike the proper balance between committing to the process and spending so much time that you never complete the project. Although the notion of a risk management plan can seem intimidating, particularly for organizations that have never developed one, you can feel confident that getAbstract will guide you every step of the way. You have too much at stake to leave your future to chance. Let getAbstract help you minimize your risks and maximize your potential.

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