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Apr 5, 2024

What is Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)?

This article outlines how ERM differs from traditional risk management and how an ERM process can be one of the entity's most important strategic tools.

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Feb 5, 2025

Board Oversight of Risks: Strengthening ERM for Effective Risk Governance

Boards play a critical role in enterprise risk management. Learn how directors oversee risk, define risk appetite, and enhance governance through structured oversight for long-term organizational resilience.

The role of Chief Risk Officers and management-level risk committees in risk management.

Jan 21, 2025

Chief Risk Officers and Management-Level Risk Committees

Learn approaches for communicating enterprise-wide risks to executives and boards. Enhance risk management with insights and a free ERM tool.

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Jun 3, 2024

Whited, Burd Examine SEC Climate Disclosure Amendment

Poole College faculty weigh in on the March 2024 SEC rule requiring public companies to disclose climate-related risks, mitigation activities and emissions.

Jun 27, 2023

ERM Initiative Launches Inaugural Risk Governance Research Symposium

Risk governance thought leaders discussed recent research on four key topics at ERM Initiative’s Risk Governance Research Symposium.

Aug 29, 2022

Raleigh Native and Civic FCU Executive Joins Pack, Dives Into Risk and Analytics

Learn about Pete VanGraafeiland, a Raleigh native and Civic FCU executive, as he joins NC State's MRA program. Discover his innovative work in risk management and analytics, focusing on fraud prevention and enhancing member services at Civic FCU.

Aug 12, 2022

Focusing efforts on ESG goals is ‘just good business’

Bruce Branson, associate director of the ERM initiative at N.C. State's Poole College of Management, discusses the challenges and benefits of establishing and communicating ESG goals. Learn why focusing on ESG is good business and how it can enhance stakeholder value.

Apr 4, 2022

Study Finds Empowering Workers Can Backfire

Empowering employees can backfire if workplace obstacles remain. A new study shows that addressing hindrance stressors is essential to prevent unethical behavior and maximize the benefits of empowerment.

Feb 28, 2022

REGISTER NOW! Master of Management, Risk and Analytics Concentration (MRA) Session, February 28, 2023

Poole College’s MRA concentration prepares leaders with risk management and data analytics skills. Join the online program for strategic leadership in a data-driven world. Learn more at the upcoming information session.

Feb 8, 2022

Imagining Unimaginable Risks

Risks take a variety of forms, many of which companies can proactively manage. But novel risks are much more difficult to predict and plan for and they may seem improbable, emerge from a perfect storm of events, or are unprecedentedly massive. In their 2020 Harvard Business Review article, "The Risks You Can't Foresee," authors Robert S. Kaplan, Herman B. "Dutch" Leonard and Annette Mikes define novel risks and then describe how to detect and respond to them to mitigate the risk impact on the business.

Feb 8, 2022

Board Oversight of ESG and Diversity Risks

PwC's 2021 Annual Corporate Directors Survey gauges the views of public company directors across the United States. The survey results reveal the significant impact of the social, environmental and economic pressures companies have faced in recent years, including new risks for boards to address. The PwC report also sheds light on the changes boards are making in response to the dynamic environment.