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Cambridge Judge Business School Discussions on Risk
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Cutting-edge expert commentary, analysis and business insights on the risk and risk management issues of the day from Cambridge Judge Business School's global faculty, associates and guest speakers.
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Risky business
Mar 22, 201100:09:15Tap to summarizeFactoring in the 'unknown unknowns': why new multidisciplinary risk management models are needed in light of the Japanese earthquake
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The bigger picture
Jan 6, 201100:05:27Tap to summarizeMichelle Tuveson, Executive Director of the Centre for Risk Studies, says decision-making in risk management relies on cultural perceptions of how we perceive those 'threats'. However she warns that risk must not be observed from a parochial point of view; it must be seen from a global view point.
Transcribe →The brain as a business model
Jan 6, 201100:08:49Tap to summarizeProfessor Ed Bullmore, Cambridge Department of Psychiatry, and Director of the Behavioural & Clinical Neuroscience Institute, says there exist useful analogies between the world of neuroscience and the world of business and risk. You can build a better business model through understanding the brain, he argues.
Transcribe →Cognitive wherewithal
Jan 6, 201100:04:44Tap to summarizeRisk, argues, Dr John Coates, Senior Research Fellow at Cambridge Judge Business School, is pro-cyclical. We can go from being too risky to being risk-averse and this change in sentiment can impact markets too. A bear market can lead to a crash, and a bull market to a bubble.
Transcribe →The difference between intelligence and wisdom
Jan 6, 201100:07:54Tap to summarize'Values', say Alan Smith, Global Head of Risk Strategy at HSBC, have become even more important in this 'complex' age of banking. Commenting in a personal capacity, he said the 'wisdom' of risk managers will be ever more important.
Transcribe →Raising the stakes
Jan 6, 201100:10:09Tap to summarizeProfessor Frank Kelly, Statistician, and Master of Christ's College at the University of Cambridge, says he's fascinated by the scaling up of risks, and the roles of networks and corporations and the ensuing efficiencies in this global society. He warns however that whilst failures are becoming increasingly rare, when they do inevitably happen they will be catastrophic in their nature due to our interconnected dependencies.
Transcribe →Mitigating risk for those at the bottom of the pyramid
Jan 6, 201100:06:35Tap to summarizeProfessor Haresh Shah, Chairman of the Advisory Board at the Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management, Nanyang Technological University Singapore, makes the case for allowing the poorest to insure against risks great and small.
Transcribe →The economy of contingency planning
Jan 6, 201100:06:32Tap to summarizeAndrew Freeman, Executive Director of the Deloitte Centre for Financial Services, explains how his panel discussion viewed the challenges of managing perception when a culture is in crisis. Key, he said, was ensuring that at any given moment in time, the decision makers have access to the right information.
Transcribe →Primate coalition formation
Jan 6, 201100:08:01Tap to summarizeDr Leslie Knapp, Reader at the Cambridge Department of Anthropology, explains how observing group behaviour in primates, in particular how they herd and respond to 'threats', can teach us a lot about ourselves.
Transcribe →The human dimension of risk Part 2
Jan 6, 201100:26:38Tap to summarizeIn an ever competitive, complex, and uncertain business environment the role of 'risk' within organisations is coming under increasing scrutiny. When is a 'risk' acceptable and where do the boundaries of 'risk' lie?
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