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Can Amazon Sell Long-Termism, Too?

February 01, 2012

The votes are in, and a long-term approach to business growth has trounced short-termism! Really. Wall Street Journal readers cast their ballots Wednesday morning after reading this analysis of Amazon's decision to lower short-term profitability by maki ...

Risk Management's Missing Dimension(s)

January 27, 2012

When practitioners, consultants and academics discuss leading organizational risk management practices, they hone in on people, processes and supporting technology. As major risk management failures in recent years have illustrated, mastering these three ...

Best Buy Needs to Confront Its Residual Risk

January 11, 2012

As I think about Best Buy's strategic risk management issues, I keep coming back to the notion of "residual risk." Best Buy is getting hammered by business professors, writers and pundits for – well, it's difficult to pinpoint the exact reason, as the ...

Risk Chat: How will Dodd-Frank Progress in 2012?

January 05, 2012

... what it all will mean for finance managers. Eric Krell : First, can you fill me... season. Krell : Are best practices emerging with regard to Dodd-Frank's say-on-pay ...

Risk Management 2012: Back to the Past?

November 16, 2011

Eric Krell reports on governance, risk management and compliance for Business ...

The Global Skills Gap: the Biggest, Most Obscure(d) Risk

November 02, 2011

is no laughing matter. Contributing editor Eric Krell reports on governance, risk management ...

Too Much Information, Not Enough Analysis

September 27, 2011

. Contributing editor Eric Krell reports on governance, risk management and compliance for Business ...

Introducing 'Social CFOs'

September 26, 2011

While researching a project on social media ROI, a Deloitte consultant mentioned something that opened my eyes. "So let's think about social CFOs," he said. "Think about the close the books process for a large multi-national corporation. That is inheren ...

Dodd-Frank's 'Poor Me' Effect

September 09, 2011

Last week, I identified some executive-compensation challenges CFOs and CROs confront. Since then, I've had a dozen conversations with general-workforce and executive compensation experts for a research project on compensation trends I'm conducting. It' ...

Risk Management Lessons from the Future

July 12, 2011

"Just two words: scenario planning." If the iconic 1967 movie "The Graduate" were remade today, Mr. Robinson would whisper this career advice to Dustin Hoffman's college-graduate character (recast as an accounting major) instead of "plastics" -- especia ...