key person risk
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Noun edit
key person risk (countable and uncountable, plural key person risks)
- (business) A risk carried by an organization that depends to a great extent on one individual for its success.
- Synonym: key man risk
- 2015 July 14, Matt Vickers, “Managing Key Person Risk”, in Dynamic Business:
- The most notable examples of key person risk occur in some of the world’s largest companies.
- 2018 February 25, Shuli Ren, “Xi's the Key-Person Risk for Emerging Markets: China's president may be around for a long time. There are two ways of looking at that .”, in Bloomberg:
- Are we being too complacent in a space that now has one key-person risk?