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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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The Black Swan
 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Random House, 2007

(10)

Aspects of Complexity

Terry Cooke-Davies

Project Mgmt Inst., 2011

(8)

How to Measure Anything
 

Douglas W. Hubbard

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010

(8)

Industrial Megaprojects

Edward W. Merrow

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011

(9)

The Handbook of International Trade and Finance

Anders Grath

Kogan Page, 2012

(8)

Risk Intelligence

Dylan Evans

Free Press, 2012

(8)

Intellectual Property Strategy

John Palfrey

MIT Press, 2012

(8)

Single Point of Failure

Gary S. Lynch

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009

(8)

Fooled by Randomness
 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thomson Texere, 2001

(9)

Predictable Results in Unpredictable Times
 

Stephen R. Covey et al.

FranklinCovey Publishing, 2009

(8)

No One Would Listen
 

Harry Markopolos

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010

(9)

Green to Gold
 

Daniel C. Esty and Andrew S. Winston

Yale UP, 2006

(10)

Owning Up
 

Ram Charan

Jossey-Bass, 2009

(9)

Crisis Communication
 

Peter F. Anthonissen

Kogan Page, 2008

(8)

Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management
 

John J. Hampton

AMACOM, 2009

(8)

The Fat Tail
 

Ian Bremmer and Preston Keat

Oxford UP, 2009

(9)

The New Financial Order
 

Robert J. Shiller

Princeton UP, 2003

(10)

Crisis Management

Harvard Business Essentials

Harvard Business Review Press, 2004

(9)

Streetwise Credit and Collections

Suzanne Caplan

Adams Media, 2006

(7)

Against the Gods
 

Peter L. Bernstein

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996

(8)

Wharton on Making Decisions
 

Howard C. Kunreuther and Stephen J. Hoch

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2001

(8)

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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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