Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Measuring cholesterol levels has always been the gold standard for figuring out who is at highest risk for heart disease. Until ...

It’s time the National Institute of Standards and Technology point to how organizations should be assessing the risk they’re associating with systems when deciding what security controls to implement ...

Many companies’ retained risk costs — claim costs paid by the firm — are the largest component of their total cost of risk, often representing two-thirds or more of the total costs. Unfortunately, ...

In this post, I turn my attention to divergences in risk across companies, looking at alternative measures of risk and how ...

Two services are using new technology to assess the likelihood of accounting irregularities at companies and the impact of negative news stories on corporate reputations. One of them, from Audit ...

This piece was originally featured on Research Matters. This is the second piece on Professor Semmler’s work on the economics of climate change. Read the first here. Images of a burning Amazon ...

Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More Today’s organizations rely on metrics more than ever before. Yet when it ...

Heart disease kills more people in the US than any other cause of death — yet many Americans aren’t aware of one major genetic risk factor. Lipoprotein(a), or Lp(a), is a protein that can greatly ...

Scientists may have found a way to measure your risk of death. A new study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine posits that a 10-second balance test could help measure your overall risk ...

How many times have you heard that phrase or something similar? It’s usually meant to encourage. A rallying cry for entrepreneurship, industry and capitalism, it also alludes to the inverse — that ...

Do sovereign ratings provide a reliable indication of prospective sovereign default risk or merely a measure of the expected loss involved? It’s a moot point, but an important one, particularly as ...