October 13, 2023
In the past six months, more than $130 billion in shareholder value was lost by 39 banks due to reputational risk—the risk of unmet stakeholder expectations resulting in incinerated business value–flawed stakeholder intelligence.
D&O
October 10, 2023
CEO’s Conviction SEC Charges. “Boards should demand… intelligence on stakeholder expectations,” said Kossovsky.
October 6, 2023
![A CEO and former Los Angeles County deputy coroner on what he feels derailed the ESG movement […] ESG died from toxicity and dysfunctionality. Culpable parties include investors, fund managers, corporate communicators and politicians.](https://steelcityre.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/20231006-Steel-City-Re.jpg)
A CEO and former Los Angeles County deputy coroner on what he feels derailed the ESG movement […] ESG died from toxicity and dysfunctionality. Culpable parties include investors, fund managers, corporate communicators and politicians.
September 5, 2023
“Lightning does strike,” (Kossovsky) said, but firms that can demonstrate that they have developed effective governance systems and implemented thoughtful risk management experience a much different impact: “That’s where enterprise risk management creates value.”
August 17, 2023
Backlash Over AI Work. Companies can mitigate the risk of backlash by encouraging collaboration between IT, enterprise risk management and communications within the organization, as well as getting the board involved in overseeing the risk management process, said Steel City Re’s Kossovsky.
June 19, 2023
Data-driven independent intelligence. Among the lessons we should learn about reputation risk from Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, Credit Suisse and others is that directors need better, more objective information about what stakeholders expect: the source of reputation value.
May 10, 2023
Parametric reputation health risk monitoring reports. Corporate leaders, from chief marketing officers to risk management professionals to boards of directors, need better monitoring tools for risks to reputation health and the costs of reputation loss – tools like the kind of reputation volatility assessments that are used by certain reputation insurers.
April 10, 2023
Panic and stock share dump. Thriving in a tornado corridor or flood plain demands fortitude and a reliable risk strategy. The same goes for investing in equity markets. In times of panic — think Southwest Airlines, Norfolk Southern and Silicon Valley Bank — investor moxie may give way to stock share dumps. […] Integrated processes, timely intelligence and good risk communications will help investors appreciate and value risk strategies and not panic.
March 3, 2023
ESG rhetoric pledge regrets. With ESG becoming as important to some companies as EBITDA and marketing departments ramping up the ESG rhetoric, the effective scope of dutiful oversight has expanded…The Delaware court increasingly sees oversight of all things mission-critical as a board duty.
February 28, 2023
“For the first time since its landmark Caremark decision, the Delaware Chancery Court has allowed a breach of oversight claim to proceed against a corporate officer when it declined to dismiss claims brought by stockholders against David Fairhurst, McDonald’s former head of human resources…”.[kos] The bottom line is that law and society are expecting better management and oversight—a touch of common sense many would say—and that disappointment (read, shift in expectations leading to anger and disappointment, aka, reputation crisis) is playing out in the courts….Companies and boards need a solid, universally applicable management and oversight process that is forward-looking to manage risk strategically. The quality of that process needs to be proactively authenticated with insurance. Compliance-focused controls, which by design are backward looking—and the audits that authenticate them—are necessary but with the evolving expectations of society, apparently no longer sufficient.