From Risk to Resilience: How Business Can Better Plan for Natural Disasters
The Conference Board uses cookies to improve our website, enhance your experience, and deliver relevant messages and offers about our products. Detailed information on the use of cookies on this site is provided in our cookie policy. For more information on how The Conference Board collects and uses personal data, please visit our privacy policy. By continuing to use this Site or by clicking "OK", you consent to the use of cookies. 

From Risk to Resilience: How Business Can Better Plan for Natural Disasters

/ Quick Take

Our survey of 100 leading companies reveals that virtually all corporations (91 percent) expect natural disasters to become more frequent over the next five years; 77 percent expect disasters to become more intense, and 59 percent think they will be more complex.

Insight for What’s Ahead: It is time for corporate citizenship leaders to move beyond responding compassionately to disasters to planning strategically for them. CEOs should consider directing their management teams, including corporate citizenship executives, to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the risks of natural disasters to the company, including its operations, employees, suppliers, customers, and communities.

With that assessment in hand, corporate citizenship leaders can collaborate within the company and with external partners such as nonprofits, governments, and peer companies to map out collective resources, identify gaps, and develop effective philanthropic disaster response plans.

Our latest report on disaster philanthropy practices provides further actionable insights for companies to make progress in these areas.

Our survey of 100 leading companies reveals that virtually all corporations (91 percent) expect natural disasters to become more frequent over the next five years; 77 percent expect disasters to become more intense, and 59 percent think they will be more complex.

Insight for What’s Ahead: It is time for corporate citizenship leaders to move beyond responding compassionately to disasters to planning strategically for them. CEOs should consider directing their management teams, including corporate citizenship executives, to conduct a comprehensive assessment of the risks of natural disasters to the company, including its operations, employees, suppliers, customers, and communities.

With that assessment in hand, corporate citizenship leaders can collaborate within the company and with external partners such as nonprofits, governments, and peer companies to map out collective resources, identify gaps, and develop effective philanthropic disaster response plans.

Our latest report on disaster philanthropy practices provides further actionable insights for companies to make progress in these areas.

Author

Other Related Resources

hubCircleImage