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    April 17, 2020
    COVID-19: Paradigm Shift in the Boardroom (An Expanded Discussion)
    The discussion below is a more complete coverage, including examples, of the topic addressed in Issue 127 of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight and on NACD/BoardTalk. The global COVID-19 pandemic is a different experience from other catastrophic events like the September 11, 2001 attacks and the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. It is spawning new thinking in all quarters, especially in…

  • Flash Report

    April 10, 2020
    COVID-19 Crisis Drives FASB to Propose Delays to Effective Dates of Revenue Recognition and Lease Accounting Standards for Certain Entities
    At its April 8 meeting, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) proposed delaying, for certain entities, the effective dates of its accounting standards for revenue recognition (Accounting Standards Update No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)) and lease accounting (Accounting Standards Update No. 2016-02, Leases (Topic 842)). The board proposed these revised…

  • Whitepaper

    October 6, 2020
    Back to Basics for Private Equity – Four Longer-Term Areas That Warrant Renewed Focus Post-COVID-19
    October 2020  As the global economy slowly emerges from COVID-19 lockdowns, it is important for companies to focus once again on some of the longer-term challenges that may have taken a backseat in recent months. Private equity managers can partner with their portfolio companies to ensure these areas are receiving appropriate attention.  Recently, we have published a number of resources…

  • Whitepaper

    October 5, 2020
    Private Equity and Hedge Funds: Methods of Choice for Money Laundering Threat Actors
    Private investment funds under management have grown over the past 25 years into a several trillion-dollar industry in the United States. In a leaked Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) unclassified but sensitive bulletin, the FBI concludes, with high confidence,[1] that threat actors (both financially motivated criminals and foreign adversaries) are using the private placement of funds,…

  • Whitepaper

    October 5, 2020
    Private Equity and Cybersecurity – Gaining a Holistic View
    An emerging trend among private equity firms is their growing attention to the remediation, monitoring and reporting of cybersecurity capabilities of the companies in their portfolios. Historically, they have not fully appreciated the varying degrees of cybersecurity risk relative to a company’s specific industry. And understandably, the emphasis on investing in promising businesses and improving…

  • Whitepaper

    September 21, 2020
    Driving Operational Resilience From the C-Suite
    The actions and decisions of C-suite leaders are typically driven by strategies designed to guide businesses toward growth and success. These plans invariably contain many assumptions. One is the expectation that their organisations will be able to deliver goods and services to customers even under stressful conditions – an expectation of resilience that is sometimes ill-conceived and unsupported.

  • Whitepaper

    May 6, 2021
    Drive Collaborative Problem Solving in Healthcare
    A tailored virtual workshop designed to enable rapid transformation Navigating uncertainty with disruptive thinking By any measure, we are currently living in extraordinary times. Extreme disruption to our healthcare system and uncertainty are the new norm. Government policies and guidelines continue to change. In times of stress, organisations can feel pressured to become narrow in their…

  • Whitepaper

    July 23, 2020
    Impact of COVID-19 on Construction Projects
    The Construction Recovery Road Map to Mitigate the Aftermath of COVID-19 Introduction The coronavirus (COVID-19) disease, known to the whole world as a global pandemic, has been the trending topic of the year, drastically impacting the economy and disrupting the lives of many people, businesses operating in numerous industries, financial markets and supply chains. All capital projects come with…

  • Whitepaper

    July 17, 2020
    Understanding Changes in Resilience Risks from Technology Advancements
    How resilient is our organisation? How do we track our organisation’s change in resilience? Those are two of the most common questions posed by boards on the topic of resilience. The proper responses to these seemingly abstract questions require a firm understanding of the organisation’s ability to recover important services and functions, as well as the ability to benchmark resilience, either on…

  • Whitepaper

    May 20, 2021
    New Executive Order Aims to Shore Up U.S. Cybersecurity Defenses
    A Primer for Federal Government Contractors On May 12, 2021, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order (EO) to improve the United States’ cybersecurity and protect federal networks. Following the SolarWinds breach and, most recently, the Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack, the EO is the most recent action in the Biden administration’s plan to overhaul U.S. cybersecurity strategy and…
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