Case | HBS Case Collection | 2011 (Revised from original 2011 version)
by Anette Mikes, Gwen Yu and Dominique Hamel
Citation:
Mikes, Anette, Gwen Yu, and Dominique Hamel. "Lehman Brothers and Repo 105." Harvard Business School Case 112-050, December 2011. (Revised from original October 2011 version.)
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Working Paper | HBS Working Paper Series | 2013
Managing Risks: Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management
Anette Mikes and Robert Kaplan
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary corporate governance reforms. Now that principles, guidelines, and standards abound, it is time to take stock. Has the idea of ERM reached maturity with proven, unambiguous concepts and tools? Or is it still emerging and unproven? Or can it be simply taken for granted, its value "proven" by the apparent demand?
This paper portrays ERM as an evolving discipline, and presents empirical findings from academic papers and our own field research on its current state of maturity. The academic studies explore factors that influence the adoption and impact of ERM but have produced few significant results because of an inadequate and insufficiently specified concept of ERM. Based on a ten-year field project, over 250 interviews with senior risk officers, and three detailed case studies in high reliability organizations, we propose a contingency framework for ERM, describing the emerging design parameters that help to explain the observable variation in the "ERM mix" adopted by organizations. We also propose a new contingent variable: the type of risk that the ERM practices address. We outline a "minimum necessary contingency framework" (Otley, 1980) that is sufficiently nuanced, yet observable to empirical researchers so that they may, in due course, hypothesize about "fit" between contingent variables, such as risk types and the ERM mix, as well as outcomes (organizational effectiveness).
Conference Presentation | 12 Jan 2013
Accounting and Risk Management, and Interactive Control Selection: Which, When and Why?
Anette Mikes
Article | Risk & Regulation | Winter 2012
The Struggle to Codify Risk Management
Keywords: Risk Management;