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In the first post in this three-part series, I wrote about decision-making when the project is lawful but awful. But there are also risks when situations are lawful but new or novel.… Continue Reading
In prior posts for the FCPA Blog, I discussed how compliance officers are subject matter experts for the compliance program and why the board-adopted company code of ethics is a fundamental ingredient of the compliance program.… Continue Reading
In the prior post, I mentioned the role of boards of directors in adopting the company’s code of ethics. In this post, I’ll talk about the critical reasons for board-backed codes of ethics.… Continue Reading
My two-part series for the FCPA Blog on Beyond Compliance elicited some thoughtful reader feedback. While the comments were as diverse as the professional perspectives of the writers, a few themes surfaced.… Continue Reading
In Part One of this two-part series, I described the intersection of compliance, ethics, and trust. This post explores the steps necessary to move from a compliance-only strategy to one that embraces ethics and trust.… Continue Reading
Recently a small group of open-minded trust, ethics and compliance professionals met for an informal lunch in New York City to discuss the intersection of the three disciplines and their respective roles in organizations.… Continue Reading
In our first post we proposed a universal business ethics principle: “A basic duty of every organization is to earn stakeholder trust.”
Our hypotheses are: 1) trust is based on the expectation of reliable behavior, 2) attributes of reliable behavior generally align with ethical behavior, and 3) therefore trust is a valid proxy for evaluating ethical behavior.… Continue Reading
Mexico’s win over Panama on the strength of a questionable referee’s call was discussed Thursday in Felipe Maldonado Garcia’s post. I’d like to analogize what happened in the match to the world of lawyering.… Continue Reading
Alison Taylor described on the FCPA Blog how employees are “socialized into paying bribes and encouraged to believe that corruption is an inevitable and necessary response to the hard commercial realities.”… Continue Reading
You might expect corrupt companies to downplay and devalue the principles of market competition. In fact the opposite is true.
Corrupt companies don’t acknowledge that they set out to win business through deliberate criminality.… Continue Reading
For us lawyers who practice in-house, we’ve witnessed through the years a huge change in the field of corporate governance — the system by which a company is managed and controlled.… Continue Reading
The concept of corporate culture — generally defined as “the way we do things around here” — isn’t a rigid paper process. It’s hard to measure, which explains why corporate culture has been largely neglected by regulators and the anti-corruption-consulting industry.… Continue Reading