A Better Way to Manage Risk

Companies accept that they must take strategic risks to generate superior returns. But all too often, they don’t practice sound risk-management thinking. Cognitive biases and risk-taking cultures may stand in the way. There have
been no clearly defined best-practice approaches for managing strategic risk—until recently.

Balanced Scorecard co-creator Robert Kaplan and fellow HBS professor Anette Mikes have created a risk-management framework that overcomes cognitive biases and embeds