Harvard Business School Program Focuses on Risk to Help Executives Protect Organizations

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Harvard Business School (HBS) will host Risk Management for Corporate Leaders from February 5-10, 2012 on the Harvard Business School campus. Designed for senior executives, the program will help participants gain a clear understanding of the strategies and tactics that are essential to avoiding risk-associated pitfalls while preserving enterprise value.

“Our Risk Management program examines strategies for translating methodologies into real-world results.”

Designed for business leaders with significant corporate management experience, Risk Management for Corporate Leaders will teach participants to integrate processes that will protect their company from unexpected risks as well as help them plan for known risk factors. “In a competitive and evolving market, companies must be equipped to not only respond to risk, but also incorporate risk management into long-term goals and opportunities,” said David Yoffie, professor of International Business Administration and senior associate dean and chair of Executive Education at HBS. “Our Risk Management program examines strategies for translating methodologies into real-world results.”

Over the course of six days, HBS faculty will lead participants through established management skills and practices which companies can utilize to identify and react to external risk factors, such as employee behavior, brand risks and non-controllable events. Participants will also address issues unique to today’s market conditions, including managing risk while maintaining a strategy of high innovation and implementing risk mitigation programs.

“Risk management is not a single, compliance-based process. It requires a systematic understanding of the multiple types of risk exposures a company faces and the various management tools and processes required to identify, measure, mitigate and manage these exposures,” said Robert S. Kaplan, professor and faculty chair of Risk Management for Corporate Leaders. “Through in-depth study of actual risk management successes and failures, our participants will learn how companies can simultaneously create value with innovative strategies while deploying effective and rigorous risk management processes.”

This comprehensive program uses the latest research on risk management to create interactive faculty lectures, group discussions, scenario planning and war-gaming exercises with a diverse group of accomplished peer leaders.

Program Details:

Risk Management for Corporate Leaders will run from February 5-10, 2012 at Harvard Business School. Please visit http://www.exed.hbs.edu/programs/risk for complete curriculum details and to apply. Faculty Chair Robert S. Kaplan discusses key aspects of Risk Management for Corporate Leaders online here.

Risk Management for Corporate Leaders

February 5-10, 2012, HBS Campus

Faculty:

Paul M. Healy, James R. Williston professor of Business Administration and Henry B. Arthur Fellow. Healy is the senior associate dean, director of research and faculty chair of Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance, Strategic Financial Analysis for Business Evaluation and faculty co-chair of Leadership in Financial Organizations.

Robert S. Kaplan, Baker Foundation professor, faculty co-chair of Driving Corporate Performance: Aligning Scorecards, Systems and Strategy and faculty chair of Risk Management for Corporate Leaders: Integrating Best Practices for Superior Strategy Execution.

Anette Mikes, assistant professor of Business Administration.

Robert L. Simons, Charles M. Williams professor of business administration and faculty co-chair of Driving Corporate Performance: Aligning Scorecards, Systems, and Strategy.

About Harvard Business School:

Harvard Business School Executive Education, a division of Harvard Business School, is located on a 40-acre campus in Boston, Massachusetts. HBS faculty develop and deliver over 80 open-enrollment Executive Education programs and more than 60 custom programs for leading organizations worldwide. Last year, more than 9,000 business executives attended programs in classrooms across the globe, including Boston, London, Mumbai, and Shanghai. With global research centers in seven key regions, HBS faculty continue to develop groundbreaking research, forge powerful alliances with global organizations, and fulfill the mission of educating leaders who shape the practice of business and innovation.