Matt Kelly

You can’t help but wonder how much Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security, was written to enhance the reputation and revenue stream of its primary author, Richard Clarke. After all, he was the anti-terrorism official from the Clinton and Bush Administrations who publicly apologized in 2004 for failing to stop the Sept. 11 […]

The Bureau of Labor Statistics released a rather intriguing report yesterday that should give compliance and financial reporting executives pause: the labor market is getting tighter. More people quit their jobs in March (1.87 million) than were laid off (1.83 million). It was the second consecutive month we’ve seen the “quit rate” exceed the pace […]

Shareholders had their say on pay at two U.S. corporations last week—and for the first time ever in this country, the answer was “no.” Motorola held its annual meeting on May 3, where only 45 percent of shareholders cast votes in favor of its executive compensation plan; 44 percent voted against it, and 10 percent […]

As you can see from our front page this month, Compliance Week recently hosted another editorial roundtable—this time looking particularly at compliance challenges in the life sciences sector. We don’t usually do that; every industry has its own unique compliance burdens that don’t carry much significance for other industries, and in a sector as highly […]

Let’s talk about pornography. Personally, I’d rather keep picking about the Securities and Exchange Commission’s fraud charges against Goldman Sachs, or the kabuki theater transpiring in the Senate this week before lawmakers go ahead and approve the regulatory reform bill everyone already knows will pass. But occasionally more interesting news crops up, and such was […]

We don’t often talk about the importance of psychology in corporate compliance. That’s unfortunate, because most of a compliance officer’s work ultimately stems from employees behaving badly, or from efforts to make them not behave badly. That’s why Switch: How to Change Things When Change is Hard, is worth putting on your reading list. Yes, […]

I could be cute and say, “Farewell, Mark Mendelsohn, we hardly knew ye!” but that would not be accurate. For most corporate compliance officers at U.S. corporations, Mark Mendelsohn has loomed large in their lives at least figuratively, and often personally, for years. No longer. Mendelsohn, of course, was the Justice Department’s point man on […]

Let’s dispense with the obvious right away: the Securities and Exchange Commission’s new chief compliance officer is named Kathleen Griffin. She has the same name as the comedian Kathleen Griffin, who hosts a stand-up show on cable TV about achieving minor fame and having lots of gay friends. The lawyer Griffin has the same name […]