HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk

**Is your business playing it safe—or taking the right risks?** If you read nothing else on managing risk, read these 10 articles. We’ve combed through hundreds of **Harvard Business Review** articles and selected the most important ones to help your company make smart decisions and thrive, even when the future is unclear. This book will inspire you to: * Avoid the most common errors in risk management * Understand the three distinct categories of risk and tailor your risk-management processes accordingly * Embrace uncertainty as a key element of breakthrough innovation * Adopt best practices for mitigating political threats * Upgrade your organization’s forecasting capabilities to gain a competitive edge * Detect and neutralize cyberattacks originating inside your company This collection of articles includes “Managing Risks: A New Framework,” by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; “How to Build Risk into Your Business Model,” by Karan Girotra and Serguei Netessine; “The Six Mistakes Executives Make in Risk Management,” by Nassim N. Taleb, Daniel G. Goldstein, and Mark W. Spitznagel; “From Superstorms to Factory Fires: Managing Unpredictable Supply-Chain Disruptions,” by David Simchi-Levi, William Schmidt, and Yehua Wei; “Is It Real? Can We Win? Is It Worth Doing?: Managing Risk and Reward in an Innovation Portfolio,” by George S. Day; “Superforecasting: How to Upgrade Your Company’s Judgment,” by Paul J. H. Schoemaker and Philip E. Tetlock; “Managing 21st-Century Political Risk,” by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart; “How to Scandal-Proof Your Company,” by Paul Healy and George Serafeim; “Beating the Odds When You Launch a New Venture,” by Clark Gilbert and Matthew Eyring; “The Danger from Within,” by David M. Upton and Sadie Creese; and “Future-Proof Your Climate Strategy,” by Joseph E. Aldy and Gianfranco Gianfrate.