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Lessons for Business Resilience Planning

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed glaring deficiencies in business continuity and crisis management plans at organizations across all industries. While executives and management are focusing most of...

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How to Address Low-Probability, High-Impact Risks

Before COVID-19, few organizations would have considered prioritizing the remote risk of a pandemic over more common events. However, as the past year has demonstrated, dismissing such scenarios...

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COVID Impairs Action on Top Global Risks

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risk Report 2021 cited infectious diseases as the top risk of the year in terms of impact. Further, the WEF warned that the economic fragility, large-scale job...

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Extreme Winter Weather Causes Texas Risk Crises

In February, a massive winter storm slammed Texas and the surrounding states with snow, ice and the lowest temperatures in decades, leaving millions across the state stranded without power and running...

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Stress Tested: Risk Professionals Share Their Experiences with ERM During the...

For the past year, public companies with mature enterprise risk management programs have found that their ERM framework paid off during the pandemic. A strong ERM program helped them better understand...

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Secondary Perils Drive Disaster Losses

Natural disasters caused $190 billion in global economic losses in 2020 and $81 billion in insured losses, according to Swiss Re. These losses could actually have been much higher. While the North...

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COVID-19 Business Interruption Update

Only once in U.S. history—during the 1918 influenza pandemic—have so many businesses been forced to close for months due to local and state lockdowns and restrictions. Now, businesses are returning to...

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Remote Workforce Considerations for Natural Disaster Preparation

For more from our May issue on natural disaster planning in 2021, check out:Disaster on Disaster: Unique Challenges for Natural Catastrophe Preparedness in 2021Armed with lessons learned from the 2020...

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Q&A: How Texas Roadhouse Takes a People-First Approach to Disaster Planning

For more from our May issue on natural disaster planning in 2021, check out:Disaster on Disaster: Unique Challenges for Natural Catastrophe Preparedness in 2021Armed with lessons learned from the 2020...

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Disaster on Disaster: Unique Challenges for Natural Catastrophe Preparedness...

For more from our May issue on natural disaster planning in 2021, check out:Remote Workforce Considerations for Natural Disaster PreparationHeading into the 2021 hurricane and natural disaster...

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