Corporate political risk analysis

Corporate boards and investors have long considered the impact of political risk in governance. An interesting read on the Harvard School Forum on Corporate Governance concludes: : companies and investing institutions are approaching each day as if walking on eggshells. On the one hand, they worry about unanticipated potential hits from the president, the administration, state-level officials, or from the eruption of sudden reputation crises arising from clients, and media. On the other, a subset girds to welcome long-sought policy gifts from Washington