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Risk Taking v. Risk Management

By Gordon Smith, Christine, Hurt, Vic Fleischer, Fred Tung, Lisa Fairfax, David Zaring

In an earlier post, I discussed risk-taking decisions by boards and whether excessive risk-taking might constitute a breach of a board?s fiduciary duties, particularly in the insolvency context.  A board?s potential liability for risky investment decisions begs the question, ?What can boards do to better protect themselves and corporate value??  I think the growing importance of enterprise risk management could help answer this question.      The truly malfeasant bo read more

Full post as published by Conglomerate on November 13, 2008 (boomark / email).