The Risk Institute
Research

Rooted in Research
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
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.
NEW: 2023 Call for Research Proposals
Read the announcement and details on the proposal submission process from Academic Director Isil Erel and Executive Director Noah Jellison.
Recent Research
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Business Data Ethics: Emerging Trends in the Governance of Advanced Analytics and AI
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).
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FinTech Response to PPP
New technology (FinTech) promises to expand the supply of financial services to small businesses poorly served by the banking system. Does it succeed? Isil Erel and Jack Liebersohn study the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), which offered guaranteed and potentially-forgivable small-business loans to “provide a direct incentive for small businesses to keep their workers on the payroll.”
Because Isil Erel serves as the Academic Director of The Risk Institute, Risk Institute dollars were not used to fund this research due to conflict of interest.
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The Effects of Paid Family Leave on Firm Performance
Despite increased participation in the labor force, women in the U.S. still assume most of the housework and childcare. This fact has been illustrated starkly during the COVID-19 pandemic, which risks forcing a generation of working mothers out of the labor market. In this research, Isil Erel and her coauthors explore how lowering labor market frictions for female workers affects corporate performance.
Because Isil Erel serves as the Academic Director of The Risk Institute, Risk Institute dollars were not used to fund this research due to conflict of interest.
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COVID-19 Survey Highlights
The Risk Institute conducted a survey in June 2020 to better understand the impacts of COVID-19 on businesses.
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Survey on Integrated Risk Management
This annual survey by The Risk Institute was created in 2014 to better understand how senior executives from both financial and non-financial industries view risk management’s role in their organization; how, if at all, they integrate risk management into business decisions; and how they structure their risk management function to support its role in the firm.
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Supply Chain Resilience
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.
The Risk Institute Research Fellows
- Jaideep (Jay) Anand
William H. Davis Chair in the American Free Enterprise System and Professor of Strategy
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Murillo Campello
Lewis H. Durland Professor of Management, Professor of Finance
Cornell SC Johnson College of Business - Keely Croxton
Associate Professor of Logistics
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Isil Erel
Academic Director, The Risk Institute
Distinguished Professor of Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Erasmo Giambona
Associate Professor of Operations
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Seth D. Guikema
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering
University of Michigan - Oğuzhan Karakaş
Assitant Professor of Finance
Boston College Carroll School of Management - Xi Li
Assistant Professor of Accounting
Temple University Fox School of Business - Brett Massimino
Assistant Professor and Professor Robert M. Chase Faculty Fellow
Department of Services Operations Management
Cornell University, School of Hotel Administration - Yihui Pan
Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Utah - Steven M. Quiring
Professor, Atmospheric Sciences Program, Department of Geography
The Ohio State University - Adam Rose
Professor, The National Center of Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)
University of Southern California - Eric Seiber
Associate Professor
The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy - Oded Shenkar
Ford Motor Company Chair in Global Business Management
Professor of Management and Human Resources
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Brittany Shoots-Reinhard
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
The Ohio State University - Tracy Yue Wang
Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management - Ingrid M. Werner
Martin and Andrew Murrer Professor in Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - YiLin Wu
Professor of Economics
National Taiwan University College of Social Sciences
- Nicholas P.B. Bollen
E. Bronson Ingram Professor of Finance
Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University - Zhenhua Chen
Assistant Professor City and Regional Planning (CRP)
The Ohio State University Knowlton School of Architecture - Elroy Dimson
Chair, Newton Centre for Endowment Asset Management
University of Cambridge Judge Business School
Emeritus Professor of Finance
London Business School - Shan Ge
PhD Candidate, Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Ralph T. Greco
Director, Business Analytics Initiative
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Brian Hilligoss
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy - Yingchao Lan
PhD Candidate, Operations Management
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Anil K. Makhija
Dean and John W. Berry, Sr. Chair in Business and Professor of Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Bernadette A. Minton
Chair, Department of Finance
Professor of Finance and Arthur E. Shepard Endowed Professor in Insurance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Jordan V. Pino
PhD Student and Graduate Research Associate, Department of Geography
The Ohio State University - Simcha Ronen
Emeritus Professor of International Management and Organizational Psychology
Tel-Aviv University Graduate School of Business - Paul Rose
Frank E. and Virginia H. Bazler Designated Professor in Business Law
Director, Law, Finance & Governance at Ohio State
The Ohio State University - Berk Sensoy
Associate Professor of Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Stephen A. Shield
M.A. Student and Graduate Research Associate, Department of Geography
The Ohio State University - René M. Stulz
Everett D. Reese Chair of Banking and Monetary Economics
Director, Dice Center for Research in Financial Economics
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Michael S. Weisbach
Ralph W. Kurtz Chair in Finance
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business
Research Associate
National Bureau of Economic Research - Karen Hopper Wruck
Professor of Finance, Dean's Distinguished Professorship
The Ohio State University Fisher College of Business - Wendy Yi Xu
Assistant Professor
The Ohio State University College of Public Health, Division of Health Services Management and Policy
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Executive Director, The Risk Institute
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