Description: Description of considerations and perspectives to be taken into account by incentive compensation plans.

Description: There is a tendency for people not to question favorable information and assumptions, especially when bonuses and performance reviews are based on these positive results. This paper reviews this tendency and suggests protocols for mitigating it. Part of the essay collection "Risk Metrics for Decision Making and ORSA"

Description: Many top-performing businesses aren’t just risk aware, but rather risk intelligent. Such a posture helps prepare companies for a major event and can demonstrate to a regulator or auditor that an appropriately strong control framework is in place. Better still, companies gain real strategic value from a “risk adjusted” understanding not only of their threats and vulnerabilities, but also the upside opportunities associated with various risks. It starts with having both qualitative and quantitative information to identify, assess and manage risks. Strategic risk management, at its core, is about creating value by increasing transparency and accountability, and quality of information. More than a mere compliance exercise, effective risk management enables more informed strategic decision making, increased accountability and transparency, a greater likelihood of organizational success, and – ultimately – competitive advantage, as borne out by many studies that correlate risk management and financial results.

Description: This article discusses key considerations to build an incentive compensation program.

Description: Essays advocating for incentive compensation linked to the level of risk in an organization.

Description: Essays advocating for incentive compensation linked to the level of risk in an organization.

Description: Reminding that incentive compensation needs to hit the target on average, needs to have variability related to the level of control over company’s fortune and ensure people are participating.

Description: Comments on Robert North’s paper, a real case study of disclosing MVL in a public employee retirement system.

Description: A response to the comments on the paper.

Description: Demonstrating that incentive maximization could lead to failure using game theory. This is illustrated by the optimum strategy for the Prisoner Dilemma single period, multi period and infinite period that could be mutually destructive or beneficial.