How to Strategize in an Out-of-Control World

By Adam Job, Nikolaus Lang, Ulrich Pidun and Martin Reeves · MIT Sloan Management Review · 2025 · CFE101-125-26

Study guide: Exam CFE-101

An article by four Boston Consulting Group authors, first published in MIT Sloan Management Review and dated March 10, 2025 on BCG's site. It opens by observing that politics increasingly generates surprises that reverberate in boardrooms around the world, argues that political risk differs from other risk factors, and offers a six-step approach to a political risk strategy.

On the syllabus

• Exam CFE-101 — CFE101-125-26: How to Strategize in an Out-of-Control World; outcomes 1.3a, 2.1a, 2.2h, 3.2f.

Contents unavailable Only a short teaser of this article is published on the authors' firm's site; the full text is in MIT Sloan Management Review, which could not be read. This page records its citation and assignment from the syllabus and the teaser.

Sources

• How to Strategize in an Out-of-Control World (Boston Consulting Group, March 10, 2025) — the teaser page: title, authors, date, that the piece was first published in MIT Sloan Management Review, and the opening used for the lead; the article body has no section headings on that page
• CFE 101 Syllabus, Nov 2026/Mar 2027/Jul 2027 (SOA) — the reading code, its title and the learning outcomes (the syllabus does not name the author or publisher; the match to this article is by title)