Why Time Matters: Partners Lindsay Gerdes and Michael J. Bronson on Swift Action in Government Investigations
What the Board Should Be Asking About the Compliance Program
Episode 327 -- Another Look at the Importance of Corporate Culture
Episode 320 -- NAVEX Hotline Report -- More Reports and Higher Substantiation
The Coming Perfect Storm
Overcoming Internal Barriers to Compliance Success
Episode 301 -- Steve Naughton on Compliance and Complaince Education at Loyola Law School Program
Episode 299 -- Bobby Butler on the Compliance Profession and the Future of Compliance
Compliance Auditing & Monitoring
Global or Local: The Constant Dilemma in Compliance
Compliance Series Part 3: Ensuring Compliance Programs are Effective
Compliance Programs Part 2: Designing a Successful Compliance Program
Compliance Programs Part 1: What is a Compliance Program and Why do Businesses Need One?
Episode 281 -- NAVEX 2023 State of Risk and Compliance Programs
Improving Your Face to Face Communications
Compliance Perspectives: Compliance Champions
Compliance Perspectives: Compliance & Corporate Governance in the Time of COVID-19
12 O'Clock High, a podcast on business leadership-Episode 116: Leadership Lessons from the Dutch Tulip Bubble of 1636-1637
Nota Bene Episode 51: The Four Fundamentals of a Corporate Governance Crisis with John Tishler
Across the Board-Episode 5, Visualization of Data for a Board
While my first posting highlighted the positive developments in the CCO’s role and professional development, the next two postings present troubling concerns....more
The Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, 2019 Guidance, makes clear that operationalization of compliance into an organization should be done at multiple levels. The 2019 Guidance also called out culture as a key...more
As most compliance practitioners know, the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs, 2019 Guidance, concentrated focus on culture in a way the DOJ has not done previously. This concentrated...more
On May 2, 2019, the US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) issued guidance titled “A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments” (Guidance), providing direction regarding what OFAC considers to...more
In compliance you often times need to be a superior utility player who is good at every job. There are multiple lessons. First and foremost is the problem of siloing in corporate America. This concern of siloing even...more
Glen Campbell died yesterday. He was truly an American original. He grew up dirt poor, as a sharecropper’s son, near Delight (pronounced DEE-light), Arkansas and went onto to achieve worldwide fame. While many will remember...more
Chief compliance officers have devoted significant efforts to conducting pre-acquisition due diligence of a proposed target companies. I do not intend to diminish the importance of pre-acquisition due diligence, but I have...more
This Thursday 19th May, the Greater Houston Business and Ethics Roundtable (GHBER) will hold its first Ethics and Compliance Awards Dinner in honor of the 20-year anniversary of the organization’s founding. We will award the...more
There is something a little surreal when a CCO, while negotiating to join a company, raises the issue of his or her own termination. Not to be maudlin, but it is an important issue to consider....more
One of the ongoing battles for any Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) or compliance practitioner is that the business folks usually view compliance as the Land of No; most often populated by Dr. No him or herself. You will have...more
Over this week I have looked at some issues related to compensation and methods from other disciplines that a compliance practitioner might use to test and then improve a company’s third party management regime. Today, I want...more
I continue my exploration of the Marx Brothers this week by looking at their most successful commercial film made for Paramount, Horse Feathers. While Duck Soup is and always will be my favorite film due to its overall and...more
In 1965 the single Eve of Destruction was released. It was written by an 18 year old named Phil Sloan and was sung by former member of the New Christie Minstrels named Barry McGuire. To top it off, it was produced by Lou...more
Today we honor Conan Doyle’s third Sherlock Homes novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. The novel, originally serialized in The Strand from 1901 to 1902, is generally recognized by Sherlockians as the premier Doyle work...more