Risk strategies : dialling up optimum firm risk

1. Introduction -- 2. Nature and sources of corporate risk -- 3. Why organizations take risks -- 4. Decision making and risk -- 5. Impact of risk on shareholder value -- 6. Enterprise risk management -- 7. Financing risk : insurance and asset-liability management -- 8. Managing risks in financial operations -- 9. The new function of chief risk officer -- 10. Governance and ethics -- 11. National risk strategy -- 12. Management of corporate crises -- 13. Lessons from the 'great risks' -- 14. Summary and conclusions.