Opinion

For compliance departments that need to do more with less, it’s tempting to lean into automated systems. Compliance and ethics consultant and author Vera Cherepanova warns that focusing on numbers — and not people — can cause more damage in...

In September, the EPA issued a decision to prevent previously unregulated stormwater pollution from flowing into the watersheds of three Massachusetts rivers. Though the agency has had the authority to do so, it’s the first time the EPA has exercised...

This isn’t a story about business, third-party risk management, the DOJ or any of the other topics we normally cover on these pages. It’s a story about football, pain and failing upwards. I wasn’t always an Indianapolis Colts fan; I...

American antitrust authorities are using novel (and controversial) legal theories to further the Biden Administration’s aggressive antitrust posture. As Michael Peregrine and Justin P. Murphy of McDermott Will & Emery assert, this expansive view of corporate antitrust must also be...

Board directors don’t need to be able to fix a broken server, but they do need basic technology competence, which many still lack. Jean Hill of Alvarez and Marsal shares her guidance for probing questions directors should put to their...

The case of Steve Easterbrook, the former CEO of McDonald’s, is a salutary lesson in the dire consequences of failing to be fully transparent with investigators in the hope that one may be able to “get away with it,” writes...

The November collapses of FTX and BlockFi, two of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges, were shocking — and devastating for investors. But given the rocky history of crypto, they perhaps shouldn’t have been all that surprising. CUBE CEO and founder...

Corporate America seems to agree — DEI is important and should be among any company’s top priorities. But getting there is a different story. Torch’s Elizabeth Weingarten explores the disconnect between what business says it’s doing and the reality on...

The SEC has finalized its long-awaited clawback policy mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, issuing final rules that are scheduled to go into effect in late January 2023. ESG columnist John Peiserich offers his take on the nuances of the rule...

Today’s legal functions must become a growth engine for the business and focus on proactively creating value. But the transition isn’t easy. Kearney’s Mike Chapman, Phil Caruso, Seth Anderson and Paul Weichselbaum discuss five keys that can help chief legal...

The feds are cracking down, but they’ve also given us a cheat sheet

While 2022 had no shortage of chaotic events, ethics columnist Lisa Schor Babin shares her hopes for 2023 — and beyond. 2022 was quite a year, with a continuous news stream of bad behavior, human tragedy and natural disaster, and...