Research
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The Risk Institute produces world-renowned research on relevant topics related to risk and enterprise risk management which creates synergies from collaboration among academics and member executives. The Risk Institute also serves as a resource for helping to identify existing research that is relevant to additional risk and enterprise risk management topics
Current Research Fellows
Alessandro Melone joined the Department of Finance at The Ohio State University Max M. Fisher College of Business in 2022 after earning a PhD in Finance from the Vienna Graduate School of Finance (VGSF). During his doctoral studies, he was a visiting scholar at Bocconi University and Northwestern University. Professor Melone’s research interests center on macro-based asset pricing and investments. His research has been awarded the John A. Doukas PhD Best Paper Award 2022, the IQAM Research Award 2022 and has been featured on The Wall Street Journal. His work has also been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Alessandro teaches Investments to undergraduate students at Fisher.
Don Pagach is professor of accounting at NC State University and director of research for NC State’s Enterprise Risk Management Initiative. Don received his undergraduate and master’s degrees from UW-Madison and his PhD in accounting from the Florida State University. His current research focuses on enterprise risk management, specifically risk appetite. His research has appeared in The Accounting Review, Journal of Accounting Research, Contemporary Accounting Research and Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance.
Don has been named an outstanding teacher at NC State. He is active in the CPA profession and is a member of the Financial Accounting and Reporting exam committee for the AICPA. Don, along with Jim Wahlen and Jeff Jones, co-authored the accounting text Intermediate Accounting, published by Cengage.
The Risk Institute meets at the intersection of academia and industry and is committed to generating new insights and influencing the adoption of leading risk management practices.
Recent Research
Research completed by Dennis Hirsch and Aravind Chandrasekaran. The Final Report in the Business Data Ethics project examines: The threats that corporate use of advanced analytics creates for individuals and the broader society (Part III); What “data ethics” means to the companies that practice it (Part IV); Why companies pursue data ethics when the law does not require them to do so (Part V); The substantive principles that companies use to draw the line between ethical and unethical uses of advanced analytics (Part VI); The management processes (Part VII) and technologies (Part VIII) that companies use to achieve these substantive goals; and Corporate projects that use advanced analytics for the social good (Part IX).
How can a company improve the resilience of its supply chain processes, so that it can recover rapidly from unexpected disruptions, assure business continuity and adapt effectively to changing external conditions?
SCRAM™ is the solution. SCRAM™ is a facilitated process, supported by a computer-based toolkit, that provides a diagnostic assessment of an organization's preparedness and fitness for coping with turbulent change. The process identifies resilience gaps and then suggests enhancements that will strengthen the company's capacity to survive, adapt and flourish - even when surprises occur.
