Risk

Now more than ever, it is crucial for businesses to prepare for multiple dimensions of COVID-19-related risk. MetricStream’s Executive Chairman Gunjan Sinha outlines the key areas where leaders should focus to guide their companies. As we move through 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the...

The Morrison & Foerster Technology Transactions group continues its discussion around contractual nonperformance during the COVID-19 pandemic, covering considerations including anticipatory repudiation, common law doctrines and legal considerations abroad. Anticipatory Repudiation A party’s anticipatory repudiation (also called anticipatory breach) might also serve to discharge the...

Members of the Morrison & Foerster Technology Transactions group offer practical guidance on how to manage and mitigate risk as the COVID-19 pandemic interrupts operations and impacts performance. The first installment in this two-part series explores using the force majeure clause in adjusting performance expectations....

Passage of the CARES Act means that $2 trillion in federal loans and grants is being issued. Federal funds come with associated responsibilities for the recipient, which create potential criminal and civil liability if not properly handled. A team from Nixon Peabody details key considerations...

These are uncertain times, but epidemiologist and coronavirus prep and risk management expert Roslyn Stone discusses steps C-suite leaders and boards of directors should be taking now to minimize risk and communicate effectively amid the COVID-19 crisis. It’s a tough time to be a CEO...

Supply chain disruptions resulting from the coronavirus have brought countless international corporations low. Hitendra Chaturvedi, a professor of supply chain management, discusses what may come from these significant disruptions. The coronavirus has disrupted U.S. companies in many ways, and nearly three-fourths of them have seen...

From augmented analytics to financial transformations and a broader view of risk, Oversight Systems CEO Terrance McCrossan offers predictions on the risk trends we can look for in the months ahead. At the beginning of 2020, we could not have imagined our world gripped by...

Even during the uncertainty COVID-19 has foisted upon us all, businesses can take actionable steps to ensure business continuity. Point B Management Consulting’s Denise Barndt and Amy Hoyt offer business leaders guidance on how. Most companies are still scrambling to get a handle on today’s...

Fusion Risk Management’s Kim Hirsch has been advising clients on pandemic planning and business continuity management nonstop since the outbreak of COVID-19. Here, Kim discusses preparedness, quarantine-related issues and the critical risks businesses are facing currently. What are the most critical business risks you are...

Disruptive innovation has a clear impact on the half-life of companies’ business models. Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach continues a two-part series covering how industry disruption and digital transformation present a new frontier of opportunity and risk that is shaping – and speeding up – business model...

The global coronavirus outbreak is putting every organization’s business continuity plans to the test. Geneia’s Rick Reed suggests that if your company wasn’t ready for this crisis, now’s the time to strengthen your plans for the next one. COVID-19 is proving to be the ultimate...

OSHA doesn’t seem to explicitly require an infectious disease response plan, but it’s prudent to prepare one anyway. Husch Blackwell’s Avi Meyerstein provides five major planning elements to help companies create a COVID-19 response plan. No company and no industry is immune from COVID-19. The...