Ethics

News broke last week of a scandal in which high-profile executives and celebrities allegedly used bribery to secure their children’s admission to colleges across the U.S. Michael Volkov gives background on the story and its principal players. In a shocking...

To Prevent and Detect Compliance programs exist for the purpose of protecting against misdeeds, and the most effective programs are those that exist within a culture of ethics. Michael Volkov discusses the truism that a company’s culture and its compliance...

Pharma Giant Graduates to Compliance 2.0 In this post from 2018, Donna Boehme dubbed Novartis a new "rock star" on the corporate compliance landscape, claiming the company had elevated its approach to compliance, culture and trust to best practice “Compliance...

No matter your industry, your long-term success as a company strongly correlates to how well you’ve managed to define your ethics and compliance, both inside and outside the organizational structure. A mistake made by many businesses – small or large...

The Business Case for a Strong Culture of Ethics Culture and ethics are all the rage in management theory and compliance discussions, but we never see them discussed as absolutely dependent on one another. If the ethics of the organization...

Ethics and compliance are far too often neglected by boards at big firms, even though it's settled law and policy that boards are required to oversee company compliance. In fact, a survey of 26 past and present Chief Ethics and...

Vienna, VA (June 28, 2018) – The Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), the oldest ethics research and best practice community in the U.S., today released the second installment of the 2018 Global Business Ethics Survey (GBES).  The report's findings focus on...

Morrison & Foerster's Stephanie Sharron and Andy Serwin discuss the legal and ethical concerns of using AI. The impacts could be far-reaching and potentially include issues such as unlawful bias and discrimination, violations of privacy laws and uncertainty about legal...

Training for boards jumps by nearly 30 percent compared with 2017 findings, but major training gaps persist despite a volatile ethics and compliance environment Portland, OR (July 19, 2018) – Leading ethics and compliance software and services company NAVEX Global® today announced...

Organizations must re-architect the context (culture) in which employees make decisions, simplifying ethical dilemmas and increasing ethical capacity. SAI Global’s Strategic Culture Framework provides a robust approach to achieving these objectives. Disruptive technologies, unexpected market shifts, widespread political uncertainty, conflicting...

Detect, Fix or Prevent Problems Before They Become a Crisis Donna Boehme, the "Lion of Compliance," explains the singular imperative of a clear, written mandate for effective compliance programs, and offers a Sample Mandate, below. One of the most important...

Criminal Actions Brought Against Rabobank and US Bank Kerry Zinn identifies stipulations to evaluating anti-money laundering programs and the importance of cooperating with regulators.  In early 2018, the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) brought two criminal actions relating to Anti-Money Laundering...