While Sarbanes-Oxley forced directors to focus more on fraud, they are now applying that same level of oversight to other risks, including potential environmental catastrophes and, yes, the risk of sudden CEO death.
And at the risk of letting the Marblar CEO tell me how to do my job again, I think I just did.
"This is not to the exclusion of insurance providers if we find that insurance providers are not matching the insurance proportionate to the risk of the car," Tesla CEO Elon Musk added.
What I also couldn't figure out was how Nokia had resolved the "risk of commoditization" that then CEO Stephen Elop had cited as reason for not adopting Google's mobile OS over Microsoft's platform in the first place, once the decision had been taken to ditch its own Symbian and MeeGo OS efforts.
"We are picking markets with the most going for them, good economic diversity and the least amount of risk," explains Sean Black, CEO of Knock.
"Women will resort to other means to try to terminate a pregnancy, which will put their lives at risk," Hal Lawrence, CEO of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, told reporters this week.
I took that to mean that SoundCloud was at risk of shutting down, but its CEO Alex Ljung says the company isn't going anywhere.
How effective is the risk of a 1% fine in deterring CEOs from creating non-authentic earnings to keep their companies healthy in Wall Street's eyes?
Perhaps more worrying is the continuing lack of interest from investors, which restricts the appetite of CEOs to break from the crowd and take risks.
"In most cases, access to affordable housing, employment at a livable wage, and health services greatly reduce a family's risk of becoming homeless," NCHV President and CEO John Driscoll said in the release.
