Focus on Risk Management

The Smith School's academic departments and research-focused centers of excellence combine leading scholars and industry veterans who truly understand the importance of risk management. Smith faculty and practitioners explore issues related to how risk impacts financial decisions, supply chains and the broader global economy.

Risk Management and Shorter Supply Chains Pay Off Big
Sandor Boyson and Thomas Corsi, professors and co-directors of the Supply Chain Management Center, say the uncertain economy has led to major strategy shifts for global companies: Shorter supply chains and a new intense focus on calculating risk. Book 

Flexible Risk-Taking, Mortgage Rules Key for Housing Recovery
Cliff Rossi, executive-in-residence, tackles the debate on qualified residential mortgage rules. Rossi says the proposed provisions oversimplify the risk tradeoffs among borrower, product and collateral in a way that is likely to raise borrowing costs and prevent a lot of well-qualified borrowers from obtaining mortgages. His solution: A simple scorecard. Briefing 

Center for Financial Policy Tackles Systemic Risk Data Issues
The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act created an Office of Financial Research (OFR) and a Data Center (OFR/DC) with the mandate to establish a sound data management infrastructure for systemic-risk monitoring. The Center for Financial Policy and partners NYU’s Salomon Center, UC-Berkeley's Fisher Center and Carnegie Mellon's Center for Financial Markets are working together to offer recommendations on systemic risk and data issues.

Reducing Risk in Cyberspace
In today’s networked world, cybersecurity risk management is critical to head off potentially harm caused by a lack of effective cybersecurity. Accounting professors Lawrence Gordon and Martin Loeb have been at the forefront on studying how organizations should invest in protecting information.