PwC Survey: CEOs Pessimistic, Expect Long Road to Economic Recovery
A recent survey of Chief Executives conducted by PricewaterhouseCoopers has, not unexpectedly, painted a pessimistic picture of the near- and mid-term global economic future. According to the PwC...
View ArticleCompliance News Headlines: Immunity for New Satyam CEO, CFO; Where Are the...
It is Friday, which means it’s time for a roundup of relevant news headlines from the world of compliance. Before we get into this week’s headlines, however, a special moment of recognition for CCI...
View ArticleEthisphere Uncovers “Appalling” Lack of Adherence to Government Contracting...
According to a recent study conducted by Ethisphere, the U.S. government and its contractors are not leading by example when it comes to ethics and compliance. An article published this morning at...
View ArticleSCCE Hosting Utilities and Energy Compliance and Ethics Conference
According to press released issued this morning, the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics is hosting a conference on Utilities and Energy Compliance later this year. Here are the essentials...
View ArticleCompliance News Headlines: 23 Recommendations to Revamp the SEC
A few headlines from around the web as we close another week: Report Details Recommendations for SEC Overhaul As the broader debate on financial services regulatory reform rages on, the U.S. Chamber of...
View ArticleCode Redux Part Two: Corporate Code of Conduct Update and Revision Process
(This article was contributed to Corporate Compliance Insights by Ms. Joan Dubinsky, the Chief Ethics Officer for the International Monetary Fund. Ms. Dubinsky can be contact by email at at...
View ArticleCorporate Compliance and Ethics Institute 2009 Schedule and Information
The Practising Law Institute will be hosting four Corporate Compliance and Ethics Institute seminars between the months of March and July. The seminars are geared towards benefiting anyone in the...
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Ethics and Integrity Best Practices Tool: Global Ethics and Integrity Benchmarks
This featured article is a special CCI presentation of an outstanding ethics and integrity tool produced by Joan Dubinsky and Alan Richter. Ms. Dubinsky has had her work featured on CCI in the past...
View ArticleDynCorp Strengthening Ethics Practices As Government Investigates Programs
[Editor’s Note: We are attempting a little bit different strategy with our news updates. Rather than give you a list of stories with only one link to each, we will just discuss one story per post and...
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CCI Contributer Jeff Kaplan Among Six Recipients of SCCE Compliance and...
The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics has announced the recipients of its 5th Annual Compliance and Ethics Awards and a CCI contributor is among them. Jeff Kaplan, a partner at Kaplan &...
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Compliance & Ethics Program Assessments: CCI Interview with Jeff Kaplan
The following interview took place between Maurice Gilbert, the founder of Corporate Compliance Insights, and Jeff Kaplan, a frequent CCI contributor and partner at Kaplan & Walker. Maurice...
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CCI Twitter Account Ranked #2 Most Influential for “Compliance” and “Governance”
We interrupt our regularly scheduled news and knowledge sharing about governance, risk, and compliance for a quick announcement that we are very proud of (and that should, hopefully, make your Twitter...
View ArticleMeasure or Die! – Using Metrics To Measure Compliance Performance
[Editor’s note: This article was contributed to Corporate Compliance Insights by Mr. Jim Nortz – Compliance Director at Bausch and Lomb. It was originally published on December 6th, 2008, and was the...
View ArticleA New Global Standard of Good Corporate Citizenship
[Editor’s Note: What follows is an excerpt from a memorandum referred to CCI by featured columnist Jeff Kaplan that was prepared by the team at Kaplan & Walker. He considered this germane for CCI...
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When Just Being Good Just Isn’t Good Enough
To assure that your company’s employees act ethically in their dealings with government, make sure they know the agencies’ ethics. Government and business will always coexist, even if they don’t always...
View ArticleBack to (Ethics) School(s): Ethical Reasoning and Risk Assessment
Inspired both by the start of a new school year and Groucho Marx’s timeless saying “Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them… I have others,” this posting briefly considers how using the...
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Coffee Break: Ethical Dilemmas in the World of Dilbert
It’s been a while since we have featured my personal favorite business-related cartoon, Dilbert. I’ve compiled a few strips that deal with ethical dilemmas as only Scott Adams can, and figured I’d...
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Strengthening Ethics through Better Process Management
[Editor’s Note: This is the tenth post in an ongoing series on Codes of Conduct by Jason Lunday. Follow this link to view all of Mr. Lunday’s articles in his Codes of Conduct featured column series.]...
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Economic Downturn an Opportunity for CCOs
[Editor’s Note: This post was originally published on November 5th, 2009.] A Chief Compliance Officer’s Opportunity to Capitalize on the Current Economic Downturn The recession can fuel a rise in fraud...
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Code Redux Part One: Tips For Writing and Updating Your Corporate Code of...
(This article was contributed to Corporate Compliance Insights by Ms. Joan Dubinsky, the Chief Ethics Officer for the International Monetary Fund. Ms. Dubinsky can be contact by email at at...
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Building Public Confidence in the Government-Industry Relationship
Editor’s note: This article was originally published on Corporate Compliant Insights on Oct. 6, 2010. In the wake of the BP Deep Horizon spill, policymakers are shining a brighter light on interaction...
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“The Mummy” and Using Challenges to Improve Compliance Cultures
We continue our celebration of the Universal Pictures monster movie films by looking at the classic The Mummy, which was released in 1932 and starred Boris Karloff. In many ways I found this to be the...
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Accountable to Conscience?
“I believe that every large institution, whether it’s company, a government or a university needs to have a conscience. The conscience won’t have the answer to every question, but the conscience is a...
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U.S. Importers Can’t Blame the Broker When Customs Catches Counterfeit Goods
The United States is the largest consumer of imports in the world. U.S. Customs and Border Protection (“CPB” or “Customs”) is charged with enforcing the laws that regulate these imports. CBP focuses...
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Refresher Risk Assessments
By now, many companies have conducted foundational C&E risk assessments in response to the 2004 revisions to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations that established risk assessment as...
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People listen with their eyes, not with their ears, so what are your people...
It is becoming increasingly important that leaders need be more proactive in their approach to the ethical considerations of their roles, power and influence on their people and respective...
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Dilemma: Maintain Honesty or Do What Your Supervisor Requests?
“Your Operations Manager calls you to discuss cost estimates you’ve given Big Boss. He tells you they are wrong and make him look bad. He demands that you reduce cost estimates by 20% and reissue the...
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The Crime is in the Lie
A seasoned and respected elected state official, who also was a lawyer, once told a group of college presidents that at times it is better to seek forgiveness than permission. He meant that if one...
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Culture Watch: Making Rock Stars Out of Terrorists, Criminals and Cheaters
Last week was an interesting time for culture watchers as Facebook, Twitter and social media exploded with outrage in reaction to a Rolling Stone cover that many denounced as a “glam” selfie photo of...
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Is Your Competitive Intelligence Focused on What Matters?
Competitive intelligence in its truest form is an ethical and essential function that involves collecting and analyzing often public but little-noticed information with an objective of “connecting the...
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Instilling Ethics in a Compliance Program
This article was reprinted with permission from Michael Volkov’s Corruption Crime & Compliance. I continue to be astounded by one simple fact (candidly there are others) – companies do not...
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Leadership in Compliance – Lessons from the World of Football
This article was reprinted with permission from Tom Fox’s FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. [Recently] I wrote about collaboration as a key component of any compliance practitioner’s toolkit. Today I...
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Points of Intersection Between Risk Assessment and Program Assessment
Since the 2004 amendments to the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations moved risk assessments and program assessments from the realm of best practice to what can be seen as the territory of...
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You Can Tune a Piano, But You Can’t Tune a Fish – Fine Tuning Your Compliance...
This article was reprinted with permission from Tom Fox’s FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. While I grew up and went to undergraduate school in Texas, I went to professional schools up north, in...
View ArticleLRN115 – Using Interactive Workshops to Make Tough Ethical Questions Come Alive
One mark of an impactful ethics and compliance program is that it helps employees practice how they can handle tough situations. While many company programs measure their impact by the range of topics...
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Independent Corporate Monitor Tradecraft: Ongoing Compliance and Ethics Risk...
Section §8B2.1(c) of the United States Sentencing Guidelines prescribes that, for an effective compliance and ethics program (“Program”), an organization should periodically assess the risk of criminal...
View ArticleBlood on the Tracks and the Challenges of Moral Discernment
This article appeared previously Association of Corporate Counsel’s ACC Docket and is published here with permission from the journal. A few years ago, I developed an interactive workshop for the...
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Executive Suite Paparazzi
Hollywood celebrities aren’t the only ones under constant watch, scrutiny and reporting. If you are part of executive management or are a business leader, you are too, though it may be far less...
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The Miami Dolphins – A Code Red for Compliance
This article was reprinted with permission from Tom Fox’s FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. Olga Bogatyrenko / Shutterstock.com Tom Cruise as Lt. Daniel Kaffee: “Did you order a Code Red?” Jack...
View ArticleLittle Help from My Friends – Predictions for Ethics and Compliance in 2014
This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s Corruption Crime & Compliance. When it comes to predicting ethics and compliance trends and events for the new year, I admit I...
View ArticleThe Value of an Ethical Culture
This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s Corruption, Crime & Compliance. When it comes to compliance, the best investment a company can make is to create and promote an...
View ArticleTo Be a Criminal, You Have to Act Like a Criminal
Lawyers, compliance professionals and senior management at companies can be obsessive when it comes to the threat of criminal liability. Please do not get me wrong, I am not minimizing the risk of...
View ArticleReflections from a Survivor of a Corporate Train Wreck
It all started peacefully enough. At 7 a.m., I parked my car in the underground parking garage of our Connecticut offices and hopped on the elevator. One floor later, the doors opened. In walked our...
View ArticleIncrease the Number of Women on Corporate Boards
This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s Corruption, Crime & Compliance. Corporate Boards need more women. That is a simple statement, backed by research and evidence...
View ArticleFixing a Company’s Ethics and Compliance Culture
This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance. “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain...
View ArticleDrawing the Line on Accountability
This article was republished with permission from Michael Volkov’s blog, Corruption, Crime & Compliance. With all the attention on ethics and compliance, it is interesting to take account of the...
View ArticleCoffee-Shop Talk…Making Confidential Information Public
You overheard a teammate divulging confidential information about a client to a friend at the coffee shop. This information is potentially damaging to the client. What would you do in this situation,...
View ArticleTo the NFL – Show More Than Ethics, Show Some Humanity
This article was republished with permission from Tom Fox’s FCPA Compliance and Ethics Blog. Just a short while ago, I wrote about how thrilled I was that the National Football League’s (NFL) 95th...
View ArticleThe Positive Value of Ethics
You assign one of your staff to complete fieldwork for a major project. The associate is not capable of providing the requested services and tells you well before the deadline. How do you reward this...
View ArticleTemperance — The Cornerstone of an Ethical Corporate Culture
This article appeared previously Association of Corporate Counsel’s ACC Docket and is published here with permission from the journal. Many years ago, an Operations Vice President knocked on my door...
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