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In Practice

Increasing Board Agility Is Critical to Risk Oversight

The pandemic and other events of 2020 fundamentally changed the board risk agenda. Boards must be agile to navigate the new business and risk environment. Oliver Wyman's Margarita Economides, engagement manager, and David Gillespie, partner, detail the importance of hybrid boards, cognitive diversity and continuous learning.

Margarita Economides, Engagement Manager in Oliver Wyman's Financial Services Practice

David Gillespie, Partner, Financial Services at Oliver Wyman

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In Practice

You Need New Skills for Managing a Hybrid Workforce — Here Are Some Tips

An interview with

Jo Owen, Author of Smart Work: The Ultimate Handbook for Remote and Hybrid Teams

In Practice

How People-Sustainability Is Key to Business Success

Kai Anderson, Head of International Transformation Services at Mercer

Daniel Imbeault, Partner at Mercer Career

Christopher Labrecque, Senior Associate at Mercer Career

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BRINKEvents

Where There’s Smoke There’s Fire: The State of Wildfire Resilience

This year’s wildfire season is already shaping up to be worse than last year in terms of numbers. With increasing drought conditions combined with low humidity and strong winds, how do households, businesses, and communities build and prioritize resiliency? Sydney Hedberg of Marsh McLennan Advantage, Andy Read of Guy Carpenter, and Sydney Chamberlin of The Nature Conservancy discuss how society can respond to the growing threat of wildfires — in a conversation moderated by Thomas Carver, Executive Editor of BRINK.

Sydney Hedberg, Associate Director at Marsh McLennan Advantage

Andy Read, Vice President of Public Sector Practice at Guy Carpenter

Sydney Chamberlin, Climate Policy Associate at The Nature Conservancy

Thomas Carver, Executive Editor of BRINK News

Environment

The Energy Transition Needs Business to Value Purpose Alongside Profit

Robin Watson, CEO of Wood PLC

Economy

What Do Post-COVID Supply Chains Look Like?

Richard Wilding, Professor of Supply Chain Strategy at Cranfield School of Management

In Practice

What Causes Toxic Workplaces — and How to Prevent Them

Arran Heal, Managing Director of Workplace Relationships Experts at CMP

Economy

Decentralized Finance: The Next Big Threat for the Finance Sector

Kevin Werbach, Chair of the Department of Legal Studies and Business Ethics at The Wharton Business School, University of Pennsylvania

Conversation

Society

Are Vaccine Passports a Threat on Data Privacy?

The whole issue should have been worked through properly with public health officials, rather than having private companies present to different governments and different airlines that they have the silver bullet. If you are going to build a system like this, you have to start with transparency, you have to start with privacy in mind.

Alexis Hancock, Director of Engineering at Electronic Frontier Foundation

When we think about digitizing that health certificate, a few issues arise. The good thing is that there is now a way to ensure a higher level of fraud resistance. There's also a lot of complexity in how you design these systems. If they are not designed very carefully and intentionally, they could create significant privacy concerns.