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Board Risk Oversight: Insights from Recent Proxy Disclosures
December 1, 2010
Deloitte & Touche LLP analyzed a sample of approximately 400 organizations’ proxy disclosures about the board’s role in risk oversight that were new in 2010 for public companies. Several observations…
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Evaluating Impact of Compensation Plans
October 1, 2010
The current economic climate is an opportune time for employers to determine if compensation practices are properly aligned with market practices and the organization’s business strategy. A six-step process is outlined for evaluating compensation plans in order to keep organizations’ compensation programs relevant and tied to strategy and value effective in a changing economy.
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Risk Management: Strengthening A Valuable Asset
September 30, 2010
Grant Thornton, LLP in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, recently released a joint report summarizing their analysis of a review of issues surrounding the success of risk management practices…
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Global ERM Ahead of the Curve
September 1, 2010
While there is tremendous focus on the need for organizations to consider enterprise risk management, recent surveys suggest the United States is in catch-up mode relative to global organizations who…
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Risk Management Practices that are Working for Public and Private Sectors
September 1, 2010
The Department of Homeland Security Office of Risk Management and Analysis conducted a survey to see what actions are being taken by both public and private sector organizations with respect…
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Global Emerging Risks Survey
August 2, 2010
The Oliver Wyman Corporate Risk consulting practice conducted a global survey to assess the importance of emerging risks and how risk management teams are handling these potential risk events at…
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Current state of the Internal Audit Profession and Risk Oversight
June 11, 2010
The fallout from the recent financial crisis has quickly changed the way many companies operate. Internal audit is the one branch of an organization that has the authority, knowledge and…
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Nine Hallmarks of Successful ERM
June 1, 2010
As organizations seek to strengthen their risk oversight, they are interested in learning from others about effective practices that ensure risk oversight provides strategic value. A recent Aon Global Risk…
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ERM Insights and Operationalization
June 1, 2010
One of the biggest pressures facing boards today is figuring out how to balance ERM to both manage risks and still add value to the company. A recent research report…
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Global Risk Technology Survey
June 1, 2010
Aon Analytics collected data in 2009 on the perspectives of risk professionals from leading organizations around the world to provide its first edition of the Global Risk Technology Survey. This…
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A Survey of Recent Proxy Statement Disclosures
April 1, 2010
The recent additions to the list of SEC mandated disclosures require companies to provide descriptions of the board of director’s role in risk management oversight. This article has surveyed a…
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ERM Roundtable Summit - Panel Discussions on ERM: Lessons Learned & ERM: Directions for the Future
March 12, 2010
On March 12, 2010 the NC State University ERM Initiative hosted a half-day ERM Roundtable Summit in Charlotte, NC that involved a series of two 90-minute panel discussions. Our first…
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Report on the Current State of Enterprise Risk Oversight: 2nd Edition
February 1, 2010
This second edition report from the ERM Initiative at NC State University and the AICPA provides insight on how boards and senior management teams are responding the challenges of risk…
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Current State of Enterprise Risk Management
September 1, 2009
The recent economic crisis has forced many companies to evaluate their risk management process. The authors of this article conducted a survey to gain a better understanding of risk oversight.…
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Global Emerging Risks
August 1, 2009
Financial Times Research and Oliver Wyman recently conducted a survey of 350 executives around the world with the goal of better understanding how organizations view and respond to emerging risks. In addition, the survey highlights the effectiveness of risk identification tools and methods, as well as how risk information is communicated throughout an organization.
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The Future of Risk
July 31, 2009
The current economic downturn has caused companies everywhere to question their risk management process and investigate ways to upgrade their risk management efforts. As risk complexity has increased, so too…
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S&P Issues Progress Report on ERM Integration into Credit Ratings
July 22, 2009
Standard & Poor’s recently published a report detailing the focus of their discussions with rated companies regarding ERM and insights gleaned from these discussions to date. So far, ERM discussions…
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The State of Enterprise Risk Management at Colleges and Universities
July 1, 2009
A survey was conducted in June 2008 of over 600 presidents and chancellors, CFOs, governing board members, chief academic officers, and risk managers from private and public colleges and universities…
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Global Integrity Survey
July 1, 2009
Compliance Week conducted a survey analyzing the role of integrity and ethics programs in corporations around the globe. The survey addressed the structure of these programs as well as metrics…
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Best-in-Class Enterprise Risk Management
February 1, 2009
The Aberdeen Group conducted an online survey in January and February 2009 of over 120 enterprises in a diverse set of industries and geographies that are devoting resources to improving…