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Don’t Divide Risk from Performance
The idea of integrating the consideration of risk into assessing and optimizing performance is not new. The well-founded belief — held, for example, by Robert Kaplan, creator of the Balanced Scorecard, and the accounting firm Ernst & Young — is that when risk and performance are viewed tog...
By Norman Marks • Dec. 28, 2012 -
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Women Directors Boost Profits
Companies slow to appoint women to their board may want to rethink their strategies in light of a study finding that companies with women directors outperform those with none.A Credit Suisse Research Institute report, “Gender Diversity and Corporate Performance,” found that net income growth over...
By Caroline McDonald • Dec. 14, 2012 -
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Payment on Sandy Claims to Arrive Sooner
New requirements for insurers in New York regarding claims for damage by superstorm Sandy, announced yesterday by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, may sound like good news for businesses and other policyholders. According to the New York Insurance Assn. (NYIA), it’s more like overkill.At Cuomo’s direction, the...
By Caroline McDonald • Nov. 30, 2012 -
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Rebuilding New York’s Business Resilience
With New York Governor Cuomo’s announced plan to ask the federal government for more than $30 billion in disaster aid, the public debate is filled with a vast array of schemes to protect vulnerable areas of New York from ever again being exposed to the violence and destruction of a superstorm suc...
By Shivan S. Subramaniam • Nov. 28, 2012 -
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China’s “Go West” Policy Spawns Economic Powerhouse
China’s 18th Party Congress wrapped up on November 15. No press was allowed to report on any of the inner workings or discussions during the Congress. That’s business as usual. The Chinese security apparatus seemed just as nervous that something would get in the Congress as would get out.When ...
By Ted C. Fishman • Nov. 27, 2012 -
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Don’t Let Superstorms Cloud Your Risk Judgment
Like tsunamis and ash-spewing volcanoes, Hurricane Sandy was a “black swan” event, the kind of disaster that even the most careful preparations can’t stave off. It’s also a stark reminder of the need to plan as best as possible for the unexpected.But while we gird against future storms, it’s wise...
By Sally Bernstein • Nov. 19, 2012 -
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How to Get More from Your Superstorm Coverage
For a business to recover from a disaster like superstorm Sandy — and get the most benefit from its insurance coverage — it’s important to understand property insurance policies and the business-income coverage they provide. Companies need to know what triggers coverage, and the methods insurers ...
By Pamela Hans and Michael LoGiudice • Nov. 16, 2012 -
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Whose Company Is It?
Is there value in running a public company purely for the benefit of shareholders? Of course there is, you say. But to Lynn Stout, distinguished professor of corporate and business law at the Clarke Business Law Institute of Cornell Law School, the answer is emphatically no.Stout and several othe...
By Russ Banham • Nov. 15, 2012 -
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Protecting the Deal
Mergers and acquisitions are in decline, but insurance policies and coverage limits for M&A are on the upswing. What’s going on?The value of global M&A in the first half of 2012 declined 21.6% from the same period in 2011, to a total of $929.4 billion, according to Mergermarket. As a resu...
By Caroline McDonald • Nov. 15, 2012 -
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Fraud Reports Climb
Reports of fraud by corporate employees have steadily risen this year, according to the Quarterly Corporate Fraud Index, a joint creation of The Network and BDO Consulting. The current drivers are mandated whistle-blower protections, increasing awareness of fraud, and changing company cultures.Th...
By Caroline McDonald • Nov. 15, 2012 -
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Superstorm Alters Companies’ Risk Focus
Fuel shortages, major flooding, and evacuations of critical facilities such as hospitals as a result of superstorm Sandy have placed a corporate focus on contingency planning — and on having the resiliency to stay in business after such a disaster.“Everybody is going to be out there resetting the...
By Caroline McDonald • Nov. 14, 2012 -
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M&A Down, Coverage Up: What Gives?
Mergers and acquisitions appear to be in global decline, but insurance policies and coverage limits for M&A are on the upswing. What’s the deal?A study by Deloitte, Corporate Development 2012: Leveraging the Power of Relationships in M&A, finds that fiscal and political uncertainty in Eur...
By Caroline McDonald • Oct. 23, 2012 -
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IBM, HP, Sprint Retain Top Spots in Newsweek Green Rankings
In the race to become the world’s greenest company, Team Finance and Team Technology have taken the lead.So say the results of Newsweek’s fourth-annual Green Rankings released this morning, which ranked IBM as the top environmental performer out of the 500 largest publicly traded U.S. companies f...
By Kristine A. Wong • Oct. 22, 2012 -
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Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Surging
Retaliation against workplace whistleblowers is climbing, yet companies are still falling short in their responsiveness to employees and their transparency in reporting retaliations and misconduct, according to recent surveys.In a supplemental report to its 2011 National Business Ethics Survey is...
By Caroline McDonald • Oct. 17, 2012 -
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Five Ways to Heal the Marketing-IT Rift
CFOs, I’ll bet you your company’s entire annual technology budget that your chief marketing officer and chief information officer are not getting along. Why would they? Your CMO needs technology, data, tools, and solutions, and she wants them ASAP. Your CIO wants security, process, governance, ...
By Martha Heller • Oct. 15, 2012 -
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Worrying about Water
As one of the hottest summers on record wound down in August, more than 60% of the contiguous United States continued to experience drought conditions, particularly in the Midwest. No wonder experts are advising companies to focus more than ever on intelligent water usage, work with key stakehold...
By Caroline McDonald • Oct. 8, 2012 -
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Briefing the Board
Stung by the perception in recent years that boards have been dropping the ball on corporate oversight, directors are looking to risk and compliance executives to provide more information about potential perils their companies face. But those executives may be wary of approaching the board about ...
By Caroline McDonald • Oct. 8, 2012 -
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Reputational Risk: Put Someone in Charge and Act Quickly
Reputational risks lurk everywhere, as was plain to see in 2011, when companies were stung by a plethora of natural disasters and such other events as Greece’s debt crisis, accounting irregularities, service disruption, and computer hacking.But too often, companies wait until their reputation is ...
By Caroline McDonald • Oct. 8, 2012 -
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Fraud Reports Climb Still Higher
Reports of fraud by corporate employees have continued their ceaseless rise so far this year, according to the Quarterly Corporate Fraud Index. The current drivers are increasing awareness of fraud, mandated whistle-blower protections, and changing company cultures.The index measures reported fra...
By Caroline McDonald • Sept. 26, 2012 -
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Will Latest Whistleblower Get a Nuclear Reaction?
A front-page story in my local newspaper, The Journal News, piqued my interest yesterday. An employee of Indian Point, a nuclear-power plant 30 miles north of New York City, has filed a lawsuit with the New York State Supreme Court. He alleges that the plant’s emphasis on profits over security ha...
By Caroline McDonald • Sept. 17, 2012 -
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CEOs Extend Pay Gap Over Finance Chiefs
Among S&P 500 finance chiefs, total direct compensation as a percentage of CEO pay dipped slightly in 2011, according to an analysis by Mercer (see chart). The gap was entirely due to a widening differential in long-term, non-cash incentive awards, like time-based restricted stock and stock o...
By David McCann • Sept. 13, 2012 -
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Finance Chiefs Should Steer Better Board Reporting, Experts Say
Prompted by negative public opinion about corporations in recent years — and the assumption that boards may be dropping the ball on corporate oversight — directors are looking to risk and compliance executives to provide deeper knowledge about potential perils their companies face.At the same tim...
By Caroline McDonald • Sept. 10, 2012 -
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Why U.S. Risk Managers Should Take a Hint from the Rest of the World
For better or worse, ISO 31000 is on a path to becoming the global standard framework for enterprise risk management (ERM). Any organization that does business internationally should be using it for ERM guidance.In fact, most ERM programs around the world, except in the United States, use the ISO...
By John Bugalla and Kristina Narvaez • Aug. 29, 2012 -
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SEC Whistleblower Award Sparks Employer Fears
A $50,000 payment of a first bounty, announced Aug. 21 by the Securities and Exchange Commission’s whistleblower program one year after the program’s inception, is triggering employer concerns that employees may turn to the SEC first rather than going to them. The award represents over 30% of th...
By Caroline McDonald • Aug. 23, 2012 -
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Companies Swimming in Water Risks
With at least 60% of the United States now experiencing drought conditions, companies are focusing more than ever on intelligent water usage. They are opting to conserve and to work with their watershed stakeholders to keep costs down and avoid potential compliance and reputational problems.The p...
By Caroline McDonald • Aug. 20, 2012
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