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Poole College of Management
Enterprise Risk Management Initiative

ERM Initiative Staff

Feb 24, 2006

Assessing ERM Practices

Prodyot Samanta outlines how S&P integrates ERM practices into corporate credit rating assessments, covering risk governance, methodology, and infrastructure in evaluating management’s ability to manage risks.

Feb 1, 2006

Risk Management Quantification

Explore the balance between qualitative and quantitative risk management through frameworks like COSO and Basel II. Learn how actuarial models can enhance Enterprise Risk Management and guide organizations in risk classification and appetite strategies.

Feb 1, 2006

Enterprise Risk Management Quantification – An Opportunity

Explore the value of quantitative ERM, including a six-step risk modeling process, to better understand risks, evaluate mitigation strategies, and optimize risk retention and transfer.

Jan 1, 2006

ERM Guide: Frequently Asked Questions

Protiviti’s ERM Guide answers key questions about ERM implementation, offering insights into risk alignment, stakeholder confidence, governance, and managing performance variability.

Nov 18, 2005

Leveraging Compliance into Enterprise Risk Management at Entrust

Entrust Inc. CFO David Wagner discusses lessons from Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and rising information security demands. Learn how these challenges helped Entrust enhance its ERM and strategic risk management practices.

Nov 1, 2005

S&P’s Enterprise Risk Management for Financial Institutions: Rating Criteria and Best Practices

Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services presents Enterprise Risk Management For Financial Institutions: Rating Criteria And Best Practices.

Oct 14, 2005

Enterprise Risk: Overview and a Start-Up Experience

Discover how Delta Airlines launched ERM after 9/11, with Chris Duncan detailing leadership roles, risk mapping, and practical advice for building effective risk oversight systems.

Oct 1, 2005

Turnbull Report

Explore the revised 2005 Turnbull Report from the UK's Financial Reporting Council, offering key guidance on internal control and risk management for directors under the Combined Code.

Sep 30, 2005

Evolution of ERM

Business professionals have varied personal definitions of enterprise risk management (ERM) based on their limited exposure to the new idea and their specific encounters with its effects given their roles within their companies. However, in order to better understand risk management, and especially ERM, risk itself must be better understood with greater uniformity than that with which it has been understood in the past. Misconceptions have kept business professionals from understanding risk as measurable in both negative and positive outcomes, as existent even without the occurrence of an event, and as affective of businesses in many areas, not just in the consideration of insurance.

Sep 16, 2005

Cynthia Cooper Provides Insight, Perspective on WorldCom Fraud

Cynthia Cooper's role in exposing WorldCom’s financial fraud highlights the importance of strong ethical leadership, audit independence, and robust fraud prevention measures. Learn key takeaways from her insights.