Many believe that the recent emphasis on enterprise risk management function is misguided, especially after the failure of sophisticated quantitative risk models during the global financial crisis. One concern is that top‐down risk management will inhibit innovation and entrepreneurial...

Rising food prices threatened an unprecedented number of people around the world with malnutrition or starvation in 2008. The new Executive Director of the United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP)--the world's largest food relief agency-- must not only address this challenge but also must...

Senior executives, however, sometimes require a richer feedback experience - one which might also include one or more of the following: detailed verbatim descriptions of performance, observations from family members and friends, psychometric measures of personality and motivation, and data on...

Tensions of organization design -- Aligning span of attention -- Unit structure -- Diagnostic control systems -- Interactive networks -- Shared responsibilities -- Adjusting the levers : three examples -- Designing organizations for performance.