Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance: It Can't Happen to Us--Avoiding Corporate Disaster While Driving Success: 570 (Wiley Corporate F&A) - Hardcover

Steinberg, Richard M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1118024303 ISBN 13: 9781118024300

Publisher: Wiley, 2011

Synopsis

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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Praise for Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance

"Rick Steinberg is a time-tested expert in this ever more essential field. His refreshing candor in assessing recent shortfalls makes this book a must-read for corporate leaders." --Mark R. Fetting, Chairman and CEO, Legg Mason, Inc.

"This outstanding book provides a critically important perspective on how risk management can only be truly achieved by aligning culture, strategy, compliance programs, and compensation. It should be must reading for any board member concerned with improving the management of risk."--Jay Lorsch, Louis E. Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Business School

"A comprehensive and insightful examination of corporate governance. A must-read for those of us who are CEOs and serve on public boards" --Randall L. Clark, Chairman and CEO, Dunn Tire LLC; former Chairman and CEO, Dunlop Tire North America

"Attention directors and officers: Ignore this book at your own peril. Richard Steinberg has crafted a careful, thoughtful approach to managing risks, and it should be required reading for Corporate America."--Scott S. Cohen, founder and former Editor and Publisher, Compliance Week

"Richard Steinberg's comprehensive and clearly written work will substantially benefit both new and experienced directors. It will help corporate boards recognize the challenging forces businesses face, as well as the techniques and standards available to intelligently monitor and supervise firms and their senior management. An easy and engaging read, this book should be on the bookshelf of every corporate director."--William T. Allen, Director, NYU Pollack Center of Law & Business; former Chancellor, Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware

"Richard Steinberg, a respected and time-proven governance hand, has written a most enjoyable and thought-provoking work--an excellent addition to anyone's governance shelf!" --Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair in Corporate Governance and Director of the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance, University of Delaware

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1118024303
• ISBN 13: 9781118024300
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336