Hsu Untied interview with David Niemeyer, Partner at Skadden
Hsu Untied interview with Lily Zhang, Partner at Jones Day
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Hsu Untied interview with John Bostic, Partner at Cooley
Compliance Lessons from Dating in Your 50s
Steady Wisdom: How to Cultivate Career Endurance with Intention
Hsu Untied interview with Brad Kondracki, Partner at MoFo
Hsu Untied interview with Jordan Jaffe, Partner at Wilson Sonsini
GILTI Conscience Podcast | Spotlight Series: A Conversation With Women Trailblazers in Tax
A Journey from Guyana to the Boardroom with Kelly-Ann Gibbs Cartwright
Inspiring Inclusion: Promoting a Culture of Recognition from the Top - Passle's CMO Series REPRESENTS Podcast
Hsu Untied interview with Jae Lee, Partner at Nelson Mullins
From the Courtroom to the Capitol: Oregon AG Ellen Rosenblum Talks Leadership, Advocacy, and the Journey to Public Service – Regulatory Oversight Podcast
Hsu Untied interview with Steve Osborn, Partner at Mintz Levin
No Password Required: Executive Director at National Cybersecurity Alliance, a People-First Leader, and a Cyber Satirist
Hsu Untied interview with Kelly Fair, Partner at Dentons
Transforming Leadership with Wisdom from the LGBTQ Community: On Record PR
Jessica Gonzalez Discusses Recent Hispanic Representation in Mainstream Media and Its Impact on Culture
Wifredo Ferrer Shares How Embracing His Roots Has Helped Him Grow Professionally and Personally
Monica Vila Castro Discusses the Importance of Embracing Your Background and Learning from It
In corporate compliance, a guiding principle is the foundation for success or failure: Tone at the Top. This phrase encapsulates the role of senior executives—particularly the CEO—in setting the ethical standards, cultural...more
The 2022 Monaco Memo emphasized the basic point that the key to every company is culture. The bottom line is that corporate culture matters and corporate culture that fails to hold individuals accountable, or fails to invest...more
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In-person is back! Join us in Amsterdam for the 2023 European Compliance & Ethics Institute! Strengthen your compliance and ethics program by attending our 11th annual European Compliance and Ethics Institute, 20-22 March...more
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The global communications firm Edelman published their annual Edelman Trust Barometer in January. As usual, the report gave ethics and compliance officers much to consider, not all of it good. The Edelman report is a...more
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I continue my short series on what leadership lessons might be learned from four Presidents immediately preceding the Civil War with the presidency of Millard Fillmore the 13thPresident, who assumed the office upon the death...more
There are a lot of talented CEOs. Some remarkable leaders, innovators and eloquent spokespeople for their companies. In several recent experiences, I have been befuddled by some CEOs....more
We often hear the compliance refrain on the importance of tone-at-the-top – meaning when the board, the CEO and senior executives demonstrate by communications and by conduct their commitment to a culture of ethics and...more
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We always hear about the importance of tone-at-the-top. Corporate leaders are very familiar with how to say the right things about ethics and compliance and the company’s culture. But we all know that words are cheap – it...more
Think about the task facing new Uber Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Dara Khosrowshahi. He is working to overhaul a toxic corporate culture, while dealing with regulators literally across the globe. ...more
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Fred Kiel and his team at KRW International spent seven years studying almost 100 CEOs, their executive staff and their employees. The goal? – To devise and implement a quantifiable way to answer the question: Does a leader’s...more
I conclude this month’s series inspired by an article in 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...more
The key concept from the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Program (Evaluation) is operationalization. For instance, under the query Shared Commitment is the following question - “How is...more
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Everyone likes to give advice on the importance of tone at the top. Like many things in life, it is easy to talk about but much more difficult to implement. There are lots of ways to describe or analyze the same issue....more