One of the things that I sorely lacked when I worked in-house was any guidance on management practices towards the implementation of either legal or compliance initiatives. Most legal and compliance departments do not train their attorneys or compliance practitioners on management practices for compliance program implementation, enhancements or upgrades after a risk assessment. I was therefore very intrigued when I came across an article in the November issue of the Harvard Business Review, entitled “Does Management Really Work?” by Nicholas Brown, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen. I found the article very useful because it gave succinct advice about what a business can do to improve its management practices and determined that this advice can be applicable to a compliance program.