Focus On Risk Management

How companies assess risk in a world where a volcano in Iceland can shut a plant in Japan

How Munich Re Assesses Risk

The world's biggest reinsurer works to locate the dangers in a rapidly globalizing economy
FM Global's Fire Drills

The 175-year-old commercial property insurer spends about $40 million annually figuring out how to increase safety and minimize losses at factories, warehouses, baseball stadiums, and other business locations
Video: FM Global's Burn Tests

Fire is property insurer FM Global's main focus. In their experiments, the company's engineers and technicians make computer simulations and full-scale models of client facilities to help protect against loss
Lawsuit Fears Push Up Costs for Risky Banks

The FDIC aims to recover losses from leaders of failed institutions
A Talk With Tata Consultancy Services' Brian Cummings

The head of TCS North America's information risk practice on emerging threats to our data

Whetting a Company's Appetite for Risk

Businesses need to stop being afraid to take risks and start fostering open discussion about them
Overcoming Merger Risks

Businesses can beat the odds and make a corporate marriage succeed by following three steps
Managing Risk in the Era of Behavior

It's not all about rules and regulations. Successful risk management means changing corporate cultures and the individuals within them
Slide Show: Seven Risk Management Hotbeds

Effective risk management means transforming corporate cultures in such a way that your business anticipates dangerous situations, rather than merely reacts to them. Read on to learn about the most crucial categories of risk management
Risk Management for Finance-Sector Companies

The top 10 things likely to go wrong if a finance company fails to instill a robust risk-management culture