Compliance

Life sciences organizations face significant challenges with regard to risk management. One solution to minimizing risk may be better “big data” management, including forensic data analytics to mine mountains of data for indicators of fraud or corruption. Competitively speaking, there is immense power in big data...though that must be done with an eye on risk.

The potential unintended consequences of the Affordable Care Act are unsettling enough, but even without the ACA, employers have been stung by soaring increases in health insurance premiums

In April, as decreed by the Church of England, we commemorate the life of William of Ockham, an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher who has influenced modern organizational theory—but not enough. Peter Drucker’s medieval counterpart offered the observation that “entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity,” although ...

I am married to a lovely Sicilian-born woman. One thing her family has taught me: the value of family loyalty and love. That same principle does not apply when it comes to the relationship between the Apple monitor and Apple.

Recently enacted state legislation that aims to boost hiring may actually jeopardize California employers who are trying to safeguard their existing workers and business assets.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) could not have been clearer in the FCPA Guidance about their views on the need for incentives to help drive behavior that is ethical and in compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) when they stated, the “DOJ and SEC recognize that positive incentives can also drive compliant behavior.”

A company in the midst of arbitration proceedings that discovers potential bribery related to the contract at issue faces inherently irreconcilable conflicts ...

Do you remember your childhood fears of a monster in your closet? You were afraid because the closet was a dark, cavernous space and you did not know what might lurk within it. The monster in your contracts closet ...

A chief compliance officer can have the title and the business card, but do they have a seat at the table where the organization’s important business is discussed and decided?

At the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali two months ago, 159 countries reached the first global trade deal since the creation of the multilateral trade organization in 1995.

Sometimes our experiences provide important lessons that we can apply in our current jobs. While I served as a federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia, criminologists were pushing the “broken windows” theory ...

Organizations have varied reasons for outsourcing information technology functions to third-party service providers. Companies that outsource may do so to reduce operational cost or for subject matter expertise.