Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty

Case Study: Dealing with Risk and Uncertainty
Overview
Select a company of your choice, one that has been dealing with risk and uncertainty within the last six
months, and write a 6–8 page paper in which you identify risk and identify comprehensive ways to should
minimize its negative impacts and address risk while improving profitability.
Instructions
• Evaluate a company’s recent actions (within the last six months) dealing with risk and uncertainty.
• Offer advice for improving risk management.
• Examine an adverse selection problem your company is facing and recommend how it should minimize its
negative impact on transactions.
• Determine the ways your company is dealing with the moral hazard problem and suggest best practices used
in the industry to deal with it.
• Identify a principal-agent problem in your company and evaluate the tools it uses to align incentives and
improve profitability.
• Examine the organizational structure of your company and suggest ways it can be changed to improve the
overall profitability.
• Use at least five quality academic resources in this assignment. One reference must be about the risk and
uncertainty the company has faced in the last six months.
o Note: Wikipedia, Investopedia, Course Hero, and similar websites are not acceptable references.
The specific course learning outcome associated with this assignment is:
• Determine solutions to organizational problems that take into account principles of risk management to
improve operations and profitability