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Poole College of Management
Enterprise Risk Management Initiative

Briefs and Insights

Apr 28, 2022

A Look Inside Disney’s Tax Battle

Explore the tax and financial implications of Florida's decision to revoke Disney's special municipal status. Poole College accounting professors analyze how this move affects Disney, Florida residents, and the broader corporate-political landscape.

Apr 4, 2022

Protecting Brand Reputation in the Digital Age

Discover strategies to manage social media risks and protect your brand from reputational damage. Learn to address customer complaints, brand attacks, and social issues effectively.

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.
Mark Beasley and JMark Scearce

Feb 23, 2022

Interdisciplinary Collaboration: World Risks and Design Philosophy

Mark Beasley teams with JMark Scearce to integrate design thinking into ERM. Learn how innovative, cross-functional approaches address risks that cut across traditional silos.

Feb 9, 2022

Strengthening Enterprise Agility for a Crisis: Lessons Learned

The COVID-19 pandemic presented challenges and necessary changes for all organizations. To support rapid change, many entities adopted agile business practices. A team of experts from McKinsey and the Harvard Business School analyzed the experiences of agile or partially agile companies during the crisis and provide insights around which elements of their operating models proved most useful in practice. To carry forward the lessons learned by agile organizations and to support success in the "new normal," the experts present a three-step guide to fully embracing an operating-model shift to agile practices.

Feb 8, 2022

How to Adapt to Thrive in the New Normal

Shocks like economic recessions and global pandemics can result in long-lasting behavioral changes that impact businesses. The Covid-19 pandemic is the most recent reminder that companies prepared to reassess their opportunities, adapt their business models and reallocate investments amid a crisis are the winners.

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

Six Practices to Future-Proof Your Company

As companies rebuild their workforces in the aftermath of Covid-19, they must move into the digital age to future-proof their operations and give them a competitive advantage. A recent Harvard Business Review article, "Future-Proofing Your Organization," draws on research by Bain & Company involving more than 300 large firms in every sector of the global economy. The authors identify six recommended practices for companies to follow as they recover from the pandemic to create technology-enabled workforces for future success.

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.