Strategic Risk Taking A Framework for Risk Management

Name: Strategic Risk Taking A Framework for Risk Management
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ISBN: 9780131990487

ISBN-10: 0131990489

ISBN-13: 9780131990487

Edition: 2008

Authors: Aswath Damodaran

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In finance and investing, risk has traditionally been viewed negatively: investors and companies can lose money due to risk, and therefore we typically penalize companies for taking risks. Most books on enterprise risk management focus strictly on hedging or mitigating risk. But the enterprises relationship with risk should be far more nuanced. Great companies become great because they seek out and exploit intelligent risks, not because they avoid all risk. Aswath DamoradansStrategic Risk Takingis the first book to take this broader view, encompassing both risk hedging at one end of the spectrum and strategic risk taking on the other. Damoradan helps readers separate good risk…

Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: FT Press
Publication date: 8/2/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Size: 7.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English



Strategic Risk Taking


A Framework for Risk Management (0131990489)



Aswath Updated 4/17/ 2007


Front Matter


Road Map Parts 1-4--The Economists View of Risk Aversion and the Behavioral Response 1 page; 2 figure



What Is Risk?--9 pages; 1 figure



Why Do We Care about Risk?--26 pages; 6 figures



What Do We Think about Risk?--31 pages; 5 figures



How Do We Measure Risk?--36 pages; 27 figures Parts 5-8-- Risk Assessment: Tools and Techniques 1 page



Risk-Adjusted Value--48 pages; 5 figures



Probabilistic Approaches: Scenario Analysis, Decision Trees, and Simulations--42 pages; 18 figures



Value at Risk (VAR)--32 pages;



Real Options--50 pages; 21 figures Parts 9-12-- Risk Management: The Big Picture 1 page



Risk Management: The Big Picture--33 pages; 15 figures



Risk Management: Profiling and Hedging--34 pages; 7 figures



Strategic Risk Management--29 pages ; 6 figures



Risk Management: First Principles--13 pages


Index