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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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A Demon of Our Own Design

Richard Bookstaber

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007

(7)

A History of Corporate Finance

Paul J. Miranti Jr. and Jonathan Barron Baskin

Cambridge UP, 1999

(6)

Against the Gods
 

Peter L. Bernstein

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1996

(8)

Alternative Risk Transfer

Erik Banks

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2004

(8)

Aspects of Complexity

Terry Cooke-Davies

Project Mgmt Inst., 2011

(8)

Asymmetric Returns

Alexander M. Ineichen

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006

(8)

Blindside
 

Francis Fukuyama

Brookings Institution Press, 2007

(7)

Capital Ideas
 

Peter L. Bernstein

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005

(8)

Capital Ideas Evolving
 

Peter L. Bernstein

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007

(9)

Crisis Communication
 

Peter F. Anthonissen

Kogan Page, 2008

(8)

Crisis Management

Harvard Business Essentials

Harvard Business Review Press, 2004

(9)

Currency Strategy

Callum Henderson

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2002

(6)

Dealing with Financial Risk

David Shirreff

Bloomberg Press, 2004

(8)

Enterprise Risk Management

James Lam

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2003

(8)

Executive Roadmap to Fraud Prevention and Internal Control

Martin T. Biegelman and Joel T. Bartow

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006

(7)

Fooled by Randomness
 

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Thomson Texere, 2001

(9)

Fortune's Formula
 

William Poundstone

Hill and Wang, 2005

(9)

Fraud 101

Howard Silverstone and Howard R. Davia

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005

(8)

Fundamentals of Enterprise Risk Management
 

John J. Hampton

AMACOM, 2009

(8)

Getting Started in Hedge Funds

Daniel A. Strachman

John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000

(7)

Global Edge
 

Joel Kurtzman and Glenn Yago

Harvard Business Review Press, 2007

(7)

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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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