by French Caldwell | November 2, 2011 | Comments Off
Many risk managers are still in a situation where they’d like to be able to contribute strategically, but they find themselves in the position of spending a lot of time still reacting to events. The upcoming annual meeting season is an opportunity for risk managers to show that they can be more than just the [...]
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Category: compliance public policy Risk Management Strategic Planning Tags: ERM, reputational risk
by French Caldwell | February 8, 2011 | 1 Comment
Arguably if you are an authoritarian leader who is threatened to be deposed, you view social media that your opponents use to organize protests as a threat. On the other hand, if your supporters can use it to organize counter-protests, then you might see it as an opportunity — perhaps this explains why Egyptians saw [...]
Category: Risk Management Tags: governance, Public Policy, reputational risk, Risk Management, strategy, Systemic Risk
by French Caldwell | January 21, 2011 | Comments Off
In the drugstore the other day, my wife was searching for Tylenol Cold and Flu. She insists that’s the only thing that works when she has a cold and with the onset of winter she wanted to make sure the medicine cabinet was stocked. We searched and searched, but where almost any Tylenol product was [...]
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Category: Risk Management Strategic Planning Tags: crisis management, Public Policy, reputational risk, Risk Management
by French Caldwell | January 13, 2010 | 9 Comments
So how about that Google — they’ve finally come back to their core principle: Do No Evil. Not so fast, though. With both Google and China, what’s on the surface is not what’s really happening. So, some speculation on Google’s new approach to China — and remember this is just purely personal speculation — and [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Public Policy, reputational risk
by French Caldwell | January 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
In the heyday that preceded the crash, banks did not take the public sentiment about huge bonuses seriously, but what’s surprising is that since the crash they haven’t figured out a way to reward risk takers without risking their reputations. When the gap between public expectations of corporate behavior, and the actions taken by corporations [...]
Category: Uncategorized Tags: Financial Regulations, Public Policy, reputational risk, Systemic Risk
