Enterprise Risk Management

Publications

Executive Action Reports

September 2009

Recession Lessons for Mid-Market CFOs: Successfully Obtaining Loans in the New World of Credit
Even though signs of an economic recovery are emerging, recession challenges and a shutdown of easy credit have changed the lending world for CFOs of small- and mid-sized firms
File size: 204KB

May 2009

Key Questions in Pandemic Planning
This report addresses questions of concern to business managers across sectors, industries, and regions in light of the current resurgence of a global pandemic health threat.
File size: 152KB

December 2008

The Role of the Board in Turbulent Times: Overseeing Risk Management and Executive Compensation
This report highlights "pressure points" for boards to consider, including practical actions that can be followed to help ensure directors fully meet their fiduciary responsibilities toward shareholders.
File size: 118KB

April 2008

Coordinating Business Preparedness: Managing Public and Private Efforts
An effective partnership between the public and private sectors is essential to ensure the resilience of America's critical infrastructure.
File size: 117KB

April 2008

Security Metrics as a Management Tool
Modern security management requires a toolkit of effective metrics to relate security operations to the reduction of risk.
File size: 288KB

April 2007

The Business Benefits of Security: Making the Case in Mid-Market Companies
Mid-market companies are coming to the realization that security is best viewed as an investment that increases business value, rather than an expense to be minimized.
File size: 368KB

September 2006

Pandemic Preparedness: Frequently Asked Questions
The Conference Board has presented a number of programs to help businesses better prepare for and understand the challenges posed by an avian flu or other human influenza pandemic. Here we address the recurring questions elicited by these programs.
File size: 142KB

October 2005

Keep It Simple: Getting Your Arms Around Enterprise Risk Management
The savviest companies approach to Enterprise Risk Management is to focus on the fundamentals. Is your company one of them?
File size: 123.54KB

March 2005

Minimizing Risk and Maintaining Ethics in Asia–Pacific
In order to cope successfully when doing business in the Asia-Pacific world, one must take into consideration the region's unique culture and the higher incidence of certain kinds of risks.
File size: 200.7KB

January 2005

Beyond Compliance: The Future of Risk Management
According to recent interviews with business managers, Enterprise Risk Management is gaining ground as a comprehensive approach for evaluating activities and assessing a multitude of risks associated with conducting business.
File size: 139.6KB

May 2003

Getting the Best of Volatility: Managing Risk and Creating Opportunity
While there is great risk in these volatile times, there is also great opportunity for those businesses that know what to do.
File size: 194.8KB

April 2003

Managing Supply Chain Risks
"Just-in-time" supply chain management, while providing the needed speed and visibility to operate in today's complex supply chain environment, also exposes companies to large-scale disruptions, especially in times of conflict.
File size: 111.0

December 2002

Planning for Energy-Based Business Risks
It is one of the true ironies of our times: growing concern over the future of energy at a time of abundant and generally inexpensive supplies of traditional energy forms. How should a company respond?
File size: 77.0KB

July 2002

Corporate Citizenship and Sustainability Arrive: Are Capital Markets Addressing New Business and Investment Risk Factors?
Perhaps the only thing that is certain today in global capital markets is that traditional performance measures are not capturing important investment risk factors.
File size: 78.7KB

Research Reports

March 2009	Managing Reputation Risk and Reward This report examines the challenges companies face as they work to safeguard and enhance their reputations among customers, investors, employees, and other stakeholders.
April 2008	Assessing the Climate for Enterprise Risk Management in India This report looks at the state of ERM integration in India-based corporations and examines emerging practices in this area by four leading corporations in India.
December 2007	Reputation Risk: A Corporate Governance Perspective This report is intended to increase the awareness of reputation risk as a corporate governance matter and offer guidance on how corporate boards can approach their fiduciary responsibilities in this area.
September 2007	Risky Business Is Enterprise Risk Management Losing Ground? Enterprise risk management continues to be the approach most used by companies wanting a thorough, well-thought out plan to understand and manage risks. But how far are these companies going to integrate risk management throughout their businesses?
February 2007	Emerging Governance Practices In Enterprise Risk Management This report examines how ERM departs from the fragmented and compartmentalized risk management solutions already in place at many organizations.
October 2006	Navigating Risk — The Business Case for Security This report details survey results, regarding managing and mitigating risk, of 213 senior corporate executives working for a broad range of companies.
June 2006	The Role of U.S. Corporate Boards in Enterprise Risk Management The Conference Board with McKinsey & Company and KPMG's Audit Committee Institute conducted research on the role of U.S. corporate boards in Enterprise Risk Management; the findings are reported here.
October 2005	From Risk Management To Risk Strategy: Mid-Markets This survey based report presents the facts and figures on Mid Market companies increasing utilization of Risk Management Strategies.
June 2005	From Risk Management To Risk Strategy This survey based report presents the findings of 271 executives questioned on their current ERM practices.
June 2005	Beyond Costs: Financial and Operational Risks This report explores a number of important factors that must be taken into account when initiating offshoring, ranging from a consideration of unexpected setup costs to how to decide on a location.
June 2005	Enterprise Risk Management Systems: Beyond the Balanced Scorecard This report features a new approach to developing an Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) system which goes beyond earlier basic concepts to not only identify strategic success measures, but also to link them to risk factors.
May 2002	Value at Work: The Risks and Opportunities of Human Capital Measurement and Reporting This study focuses on why and how companies are measuring their HC, how they are creating and using HC measures; and why and how they elect or decline to report HC measures to the investment community.