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JUST RELEASED! 2019 The State of Risk Oversight: An Overview of Enterprise Risk Management Practices - 10th Edition
April 2, 2019
While most executives perceive that uncertainties in the business environment are leading to more complex risk challenges for their organizations, few executives describe their organization’s approach to risk management...
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Corporate Governance Trends 2018
February 21, 2019
Each year Russell Reynolds Associates interviews over 30 institutional and activist investors, pension fund managers, public company directors, proxy advisors, and other corporate governance professionals in five key markets to determine...
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Are Boards Focused on the Right Risks?
July 19, 2018
Recent studies conducted separately by the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and Protiviti/NC State highlight that “yesterday’s risks” that still preoccupy many boardroom discussions may...
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Insights About What Boards are Looking for in ERM
June 8, 2017
Mark Beasley, Deloitte Professor of ERM at NC State University, interviews Jim DeLoach, Managing Director, Protiviti, about what he is hearing from individuals serving on boards of directors...
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Importance of Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
February 23, 2017
Bonnie V. Hancock, Executive Director of the ERM Initiative at NC State University, interviews Richard (“Rich”) G. Muzikar, Director, Enterprise Risk Management at ConEdison, Inc. based in...
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2017 Top Risks Report: Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2017
December 8, 2016
Research conducted by the ERM Initiative at NC State University in partnership with Protiviti finds that executives across all types and sizes of organizations that span a number of industries...
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2016 The State of Risk Oversight Report: An Overview of Enterprise Risk Management Practices
August 25, 2016
NC State’s ERM Initiative, in partnership with the American Institute of CPAs, has just released its 2016 The State of Risk Oversight: An Overview of Enterprise Risk Management Practices. Based...
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Reporting Key Risk Information to the Board of Directors
December 10, 2015
ERM Initiative Releases NEW Thought Paper on Reporting Risk Information to the Board The ERM Initiative in the Poole College of Management at North Carolina State University is pleased to...
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Integrating Sustainability with Enterprise Risk Management
September 1, 2015
Sustainability policies have a meaningful role in managing risk, and can also promote faster growth. Have you ever heard the saying ‘you have to spend money to make money?’ This...
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Mitigating Asymmetric Information Risk
September 1, 2014
Asymmetric Information Risk occurs when there is an imbalance of information possessed by C-suite executives and their boards of directors. Boards are susceptible to information risk given the realities that...
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Proxies Reveal Enhancements in Board Risk Oversight
December 31, 2013
On February 28, 2010, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) mandated that public companies disclose the role of the Board in risk management. To learn about what boards are disclosing Deloitte has...
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Analysts Evaluate Behavior of Corporate Leaders in Ratings Process
July 1, 2013
Credit rating agencies, such as Standard & Poor’s, have become more vocal about their consideration of an entity’s enterprise risk management approach as part of the rating agency’s...
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Board Oversight Much a Part of ERM Program Success (or Failure)
July 1, 2013
A number of governance rules and regulations focus attention on the role of the board in an organization’s risk management process. Generally, the board is responsible for understanding and...
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Framework for Building a More Risk-Aware Enterprise Compliance Structure
April 1, 2013
Across the universe of enterprise risks, one would be hard-pressed to name a risk category more critical to organizations than compliance risk. Many businesses must face an increasingly complex set...
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Crowdsourcing, A Tool to Tackle Emerging Strategic Risks
April 1, 2013
Organizations are turning to “crowdsourcing” as part of their innovation strategy where they leverage the knowledge of “the crowd” to identify emerging trends and opportunities. A recent article in _Harvard...
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Confronting Risk Culture at the Board Level
October 1, 2012
Tackling risk culture head-on – that is, the collective way in which personnel within an organization think about, communicate about, and behave in relation to risk – may be one of the...
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The Importance of Board Support for Enterprise Risk Management: Part 3
August 3, 2012
A critical element for the success of any ERM effort is the involvement and "buy-in" of the board of directors. Michael Somich, Executive Director of Internal Audit at Duke University,...
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Beasley Moderates Discussion Between Senator Sarbanes and Representative Oxley
July 30, 2012
Mark Beasley, Deloitte Professor of ERM at NC State, moderated a live discussion between former Senator Paul Sarbanes and Representative Mike Oxley on July 30, 2012, which marked the 10th anniversary to...
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The Importance of Board Support for Enterprise Risk Management: Part 2
July 6, 2012
A critical element for the success of any ERM effort is the involvement and "buy-in" of the board of directors. Michael Somich, Executive Director of Internal Audit at Duke University,...
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The Importance of Board Support for Enterprise Risk Management: Part 1
June 4, 2012
A critical element for the success of any ERM effort is the involvement and "buy-in" of the board of directors. Michael Somich, Executive Director of Internal Audit at Duke University,...