June 27, 2017 What is More Important for Creating Successful Teams, Design or Coaching? It’s hard to find an organization these days not using teams to execute all kinds of business initiatives, including sales & marketing, research design & innovation, talent acquisition,...
June 20, 2017 Observations about the State of ERM: A View From S&P Don Pagach, Director of Research for the ERM Initiative at NC State University, interviews Steve Dreyer, Head of Investor Communications – Americas, S&P Global Ratings, about the...
December 8, 2016 2017 Top Risks Report: Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2017 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...
June 3, 2016 The Audit Committee’s Role in Third-Party Risk Oversight In the ordinary course of business, companies develop and manage hundreds of third-party relationships to carry out its operations. These organizations maintain a web of suppliers, distributors, sales personnel, and...
May 27, 2016 The C-Suite Viewpoint of Cybersecurity As a menacing threat to virtually every organization, cybersecurity risks do not discriminate against any particular industry or geographic region. Every aspect of a company is susceptible to a cybersecurity...
April 18, 2016 Social Class Origins Impact Executive Risk Taking Social class and childhood upbringing can have a significant impact on an individual’s ambitions, perspectives, and decisions. However, little research has been conducted to make a connection on how...
March 1, 2016 The Global Risk Report Each year the World Economic Forum issues the Global Risk Report offering a holistic view of the top risks. The Global Risk Report not only provides an analysis of the...
October 26, 2015 A Chief Compliance Officer’s Role in Risk Management Risks, rules, and regulations: Can today’s chief compliance officers keep up? It is commonly known that a company’s ability to assess and manage risks to meet stakeholder expectations...
October 1, 2015 Value Creation through Risk Management Many companies have come to realize that risk management serves more than just a compliance function. In the ever-changing risk environment we live in today, risk management also serves to...
October 1, 2015 Throwing Caution to the Wind: Effects of CEO Stock Option Pay CEO compensation over the years has increasingly become a hot topic. As such, researchers have been studying executive compensation for some time to better understand the relationship between CEO pay...
February 1, 2015 ERM Needs a Strategic Risk Leader The baton is often passed among different individuals as organizations try to assign leadership to the organization’s risk oversight process. For organizations that merely see risk management as a...
November 1, 2014 An ERM Leader’s Strategy For Success Leading a risk management process is a daunting task, as it often requires new demands on resources and changes in processes, which leads to resistance from employees and management. The...
September 1, 2014 Mitigating Asymmetric Information Risk 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...
April 1, 2013 Improving Strategic Risk Management Strategic risk management plays a crucial role in the ultimate success of an organization. Addressing the deficiencies in strategic risk management helps focus the business plan towards a perspective of...
November 13, 2012 S&P’s Management and Governance Rating Criteria - 2012 NEW YORK (Standard & Poor's) Nov. 13, 2012--Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today published its criteria for evaluating enterprises' management and governance credit factors in an article titled "Methodology: Management And Governance Credit...
October 2, 2012 Internal Audit’s Role in Risk Management Michael Somich, Executive Director of Internal Audit at Duke University, discusses with Dr. Mark Beasley his views about the role internal audit should play within an organization’s ERM process. ...
October 2, 2012 The Future of ERM Steve Dreyer, Managing Director and Practice Leader at Standard & Poors, speaks to whether he thinks Enterprise Risk Management is just another consultant’s fad or if it will be an...
October 2, 2012 Chief Risk Officer vs. Risk Committees A major stumbling block companies run into when beginning their ERM journey is whether to have one risk champion (CRO) or have a committee that handles risk oversight. Paul Zavolta,...
October 2, 2012 Role of Senior Executives in Leading Risk Oversight Michael Somich, Executive Director of Internal Audit at Duke University, discusses how having the President of Duke University "walk the walk and talk the talk" regarding ERM is essential element...
October 2, 2012 Education of ERM Concepts at the Collegiate and Corporate Levels Laurie Brooks, retired Chief Risk Officer at Public Services Enterprises Group and current board of director at Provident Financial Services, shares her views about the long-term viability of ERM and...