Richard M. Steinberg

Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance (eBook, ePUB)

It Can't Happen to Us--Avoiding Corporate Disaster While Driving Success

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

An expert's insider secrets to how successful CEOs and directors shape, lead, and oversee their organizations to achieve corporate goals Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance shows senior executives and board members how to ensure that their companies incorporate the necessary processes, organization, and technology to accomplish strategic goals. Examining how and why some major companies failed while others continue to grow and prosper, author and internationally recognized expert Richard Steinberg reveals how to cultivate a culture, leadership process and infrastructure toward achieving business objectives and related growth, profit, and return goals. * Explains critical factors that make compliance and ethics programs and risk management processes really work * Explores the board's role in overseeing corporate strategy, risk management, CEO compensation, succession planning, crisis planning, performance measures, board composition, and shareholder communications * Highlights for CEOs, senior management teams, and board members the pitfalls to avoid and what must go right for success * Outlines the future of corporate governance and what's needed for continued effectiveness * Written by well-known corporate governance and risk management expert Richard Steinberg Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance lays a sound foundation and provides critical insights for understanding the role of governance, risk management, and compliance and its successful implementation in today's business environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781118102572
• Artikelnr.: 37347198

Autorenporträt

RICHARD M. STEINBERG is founder and CEO of Steinberg Governance Advisors, Inc. He is a nationally recognized expert on governance, risk, and control, and advises boards of directors of major multinational, large, and middle-market companies. He is a former senior partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the leader of its corporate governance advisory practice. As an expert in internal control and risk management, Steinberg served as the lead project partner in developing the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission's (COSO's) Internal Control--Integrated Framework, and led development of COSO's Enterprise Risk Management--Integrated Framework, the landmark reports recognized as standards for effective internal control and risk management. He has been featured on CNBC's Morning Call and Bloomberg TV's Bloomberg on the Markets and The Bloomberg Report; has guest-lectured at leading business schools including Columbia, MIT, and NYU; has been quoted in publications such as BusinessWeek, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Dow Jones MarketWatch, CNN Money, and the Financial Times; and is a monthly columnist for Compliance Week.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword xiii Preface xix Acknowledgments xxiii Chapter 1: What Is GRC, and
Why Does It Matter? 1 What Is GRC? 2 Why GRC Matters 3 Chapter 2: Culture,
the Critical Driver 5 What Is Culture? 5 More Cultural Failures 6 Companies
That Got It Right 8 Being Legal, Honest, Candid, and . . . 10 Integrity
versus Spin 13 Speaking the Same Language 16 Chapter 3: Cost-Effective
Compliance Programs 21 The Back-Breaking Costs 22 Beyond the Direct Costs
24 Major Mistakes at Platinum-Branded Companies 24 How Companies Got Where
They Are 30 Keys to Getting It Right 31 The Compliance Office 36 Making It
Happen 38 The Rewards 39 Chapter 4: Ethics Programs: Another Foundational
Block 41 Tone at the Top 42 Problems at Daimler 42 Elements of an Ethics
Program 43 Setting the Tone at the Top: Hewlett-Packard 51 Chapter 5: Risk
Management and the Financial System's Near Meltdown 59 What Went So
Terribly Wrong 59 The Regulatory System 63 Merrill Lynch 65 Where Were the
Boards? 68 Did CEOs See It Coming? 70 Chapter 6: What Is Risk Management
About? 75 Risk 76 Risk Management 79 Enterprise Risk Management 80 Is It
Really Worth the Effort? 85 ERM Application Techniques 88 Key Risk
Indicators 91 BP 92 Chapter 7: Implementing ERM 99 Drivers for ERM 99
Pitfalls 102 Effective Implementation 106 Roles and Responsibilities 114
Chapter 8: Does Internal Control Really Matter? 119 Impact of SOX 404 on
Financial Reporting 122 Responsibility for SOX 404 124 Other Relevant SOX
Provisions 126 Do Effective Financial Reporting Controls Really Prevent
Fraudulent Financial Reporting? 127 Real Life in the C-Suite 130 Chapter 9:
Control over Operational Performance 133 IT Controls 134 Société Générale
135 Washington Mutual 139 Countrywide Financial Corporation 143 The
Foreclosure Fiasco 144 Chapter 10: Boards of Directors' Focus 153 A Focus
on the Rules 155 Truly Effective Boards 156 A Public Watchdog? 158 Societal
Responsibility 160 Potential Pitfalls 163 Chapter 11: Overseeing Strategy
and Risk Management 169 Strategy 169 Risk Management 173 Chapter 12: CEO
Compensation, Succession Planning, and Crisis Management 185 CEO
Compensation 185 Succession Planning 192 Crisis Management 196 Chapter 13:
Performance Measurement and Reporting 201 Performance Measures 201
Financial Reporting 205 Chapter 14: Building an Effective Board 219 Looking
Objectively 220 A Shift in Direction 221 Building a Better Board 223 Board
Assessments 226 Bottom Line 230 Chapter 15: Avoiding Board Pitfalls 231
Following the Herd 231 Obtaining Critical Information 238 A Leaky HP Board
245 Another Leak--What Was He Thinking? 249 Chapter 16: Where the Power
Lies 251 A Tug of War 252 Shareholder Activism 252 Recent Achievements 253
Dodd-Frank's Proxy Access 256 Where to Draw the Line 261 Finding the Right
Balance 262 Where We Need to Evolve 264 Chapter 17: Structural Issues at
the Board 265 Combined versus Separate Chairman and CEO 265 Empowering CEOs
in a Shifting Landscape 271 Director Compensation 274 Chapter 18: Looking
to the Future 281 New Models for Board Governance 281 A Healthy Governance
Environment 285 Boards' Perspectives on Risk 289 Grasping the Holy Grail of
Governance 290 What the Future Holds 293 About the Author 299 Index 301