Risk Management

March 1, 2024

Reputation risk management is an efficient strategy for interconnected risk. “Risk interconnectivity — the interdependence of various risks, illustrating how one risk can affect or amplify others across systems — is of growing concern to global risk managers. […] Andrew Chung, litigation, arbitration and investigations partner at Linklaters, said the key enterprise risks that are top of mind for clients today are interconnected. He explained: “We are seeing how risks across financial crime, cyber, ESG and energy transition, digital transformation and AI, and geopolitics including supply chain and sanctions all have common elements and data, so now require an enterprise-wide and holistic lens more than ever, to properly manage the risks.”

February 8, 2024

Pharma has a misinformation problem — and execs could be on the hook. While vaccine-related misinformation is prevalent, it’s not the only threat. False information can arise around ethics, innovation or safety, and threaten a pharmaceutical firm’s reputation, viability and profitability. Reducing the damage from these threats requires a proactive approach. […] Kossovsky agrees.

November 24, 2023

“Over the course of four days at NACD Summit 2023, speakers pushed nearly 1,500 in-person and virtual attendees to think about new approaches and ways of thinking about their roles as directors in a world of crisis. […] One area that is an emerging risk in today’s environment is a company’s reputation. ‘We failed to predict that trust could be a target, just like information systems, and that there are entities out there that want you to diminish trust in our institutions…’”

“Over the course of four days at NACD Summit 2023, speakers pushed nearly 1,500 in-person and virtual attendees to think about new approaches and ways of thinking about their roles as directors in a world of crisis. […] One area that is an emerging risk in today’s environment is a company’s reputation. ‘We failed to predict that trust could be a target, just like information systems, and that there are entities out there that want you to diminish trust in our institutions…’”

October 16, 2023

Mitigate value-destroying legal risk. For Fox, Kossovsky said. “This new reputation at FOX Corporation, if it [is] indeed forming, is or will be value-destroying.”

Fox experienced a surge in reputational risk in the summer of 2021, according to reputational risk insurance provider Steel City Re’s resilience monitor. […] “Reputation risk is usually triggered by missed expectations,” Kossovsky said. “Arguably, stakeholders expected that Rupert Murdoch would once again pull the organization back from the brink after an ethically questionable strategy went sour. They’ve been disappointed.”