Decision-Making and Risk Management
How can we ensure a better, more logical approach to decision-making without complicating matters further? The answer: risk management.
- Start Date: December 5, 2022
- Online learning with live, interactive sessions
- Tuition: USD $2,500
- English, Spanish, and Portuguese
- 3.9 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)
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About the Course
Our eight-week Decision-Making and Risk Management course focuses on the key concepts, definitions, principles, and practices in risk management from the perspectives of the corporation, the market, and the regulator. Topics in the course include corporate risk governance and enterprise risk management, assessment of risk at the corporate and capital allocation level, risk management products and structures, tools for decision-making in risk management, and regulatory risk monitoring and compliance. This course will be taught according to Harvard Business Review (HBR) cases and articles on financial risk management.
You will learn to:
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- Understand different types of risks, risk analysis, and monitoring tools.
- Explore regulatory requirements, processes, and compliance.
- Use financial and statistical tools for risk analysis.
- Design strategies involving portfolio management, budgeting, and structure.
- Introduce risk governance and management into an organization’s culture.
- Learn about concepts and identify tools for decision-making within risk management, including derivative structures and risk analysis models.
You will be able to:
- Understand the principles of risk-management.
- Apply risk-management techniques and technologies.
- Analyze problems using decision-making criteria and theories.
- Utilize the characteristics of uncertainty to make educated decisions.
- Model different types of risks and decisions to forecast potential outcomes.
- Be awarded a certificate of completion from the University of Chicago and become part of the UChicago network.
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Career Outlook
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73
k
The average annual base pay for a risk analyst in the US
$28B
The size the risk management market is expected to reach by 2027
18.7%
The projected CAGR of the industry from 2020 to 2027
Potential Risk Management Job Titles
- Chief Risk Officer
- Compliance Consultant
- Compliance Officer
- Environmental Compliance Specialist
- Loss Control Consultant
- Model Risk Specialist
- Regulatory Affairs Manager
- Risk Analyst
- Risk Compliance Investigator
- Risk Manager
Meet Your Instructors
Borislava Karageorgieva, CFA, MBA, PAHMCorporate Financial Strategy and Decision-Making and Risk Management Read More
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Borislava Karageorgieva is a corporate finance expert with experience in financial compliance and regulatory analysis, mergers and acquisitions, angel investing and entrepreneurship, and board governance. She has worked in both early-stage and mature companies and internationally.
Karageorgieva is the board president of the Chicago Booth Angels Network of Chicago. She is a board director and past president of the Chicago Booth Alumni Club of Chicago. She judges, coaches, and mentors entrepreneurs in the alumni and global new venture challenge tracks for the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation accelerator program at the University of Chicago.
A co-founder of several businesses, including for-profit and non-profit entities, she is a member of the University of Chicago’s Global Entrepreneurial and Investor Network.
Karageorgieva is an adjunct instructor at the University of Chicago, where she teaches the Corporate Financial Strategy and Decision-Making and Risk Management courses.
She received her MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business an undergraduate finance degree in Sofia, Bulgaria, and is a CFA charterholder.
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The University of Chicago Approach to Online Learning
Our online learning programs are crafted with your specific needs in mind. Programs combine e-learning with live, interactive sessions to strengthen your skill set while maximizing your time. We couple academic theory and business knowledge with practical, real-world application. Through online learning sessions, you will have an opportunity to grow your professional network and interact with University of Chicago instructors and your classmates.
What Our Participants Say
¨A very good experience. Highly didactic material with examples and real cases that help us to automatically think about how to apply these new concepts in our companies.¨
Iván Monjaraz Ruiz
Peru, June 2021
¨I wish to thank the entire academic team. The fact that you offer these kinds of programs shows a desire to support people’s professional growth. Uploading the content of updated material, dealing with the needs of so many people, and being able to guide them to make the most of the experience require tremendous effort and your dedication is commendable. Thank you very much.¨
Fernando Samaniego
Mexico, June 2021
¨I thank you for the support and all the structure that the University of Chicago provides. I hope to continue my learning journey with you very soon.¨
Renato Hombo
Brazil, June 2021
¨It was both essential and very helpful to have access to quality content in an academic and corporate environment, as well as case studies with professional interactions. This will make a difference in the final months of my learning experience and in applying what I have learned to my day-to-day professional life.¨
Silvia Goulart Figueiredo Machado
June, 2021
¨I enjoyed my learning experience with the University of Chicago. The teaching was amazing and my classmates were very thoughtful.¨
Anonymous
Head of E-commerce at Britânia Eletrodomésticos
Brazil, September 2020
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