Matt Kelly

Look, I’m all for skewering overpaid CEOs while they’re still alive and roasting them over an open flame. But could we at least put a little thought into the process? That seems to be the missing element in the Obama Administration’s new rules for executive compensation. I appreciate the spirit behind them, and I’m sure […]

Last week, I had the pleasure of moderating a roundtable forum in New York on supply chain compliance, and the debate turned to a theme I often hear at these discussions: How far should your compliance program go to please government regulators? On one side were the realists, arguing that no compliance program can stop […]

I always enjoy spending time with Compliance Week readers—especially these days, when the alternative is to sit around reading economic news. Not long ago I had just such a chance: one of our Editorial Roundtables, where we invite a dozen compliance executives to get together and talk shop. We met at an upscale hotel in […]

All you chief compliance officers with hotshot deputies, here’s your chance to do something nice for them so they won’t decamp to greener pastures: The Millstein Center for Corporate Governance is accepting nominations for its second annual Rising Stars of Corporate Governance award. The award recognizes up-and-coming players in corporate governance, and is open to […]

To my thinking, a chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission is good at his job if investors are protected from dangerous risks (fraud or otherwise) during his tenure. By that yardstick, Christopher Cox was not a good chairman of the SEC. Still, even as many people celebrate Cox’s departure from the SEC last week, […]

By now, everyone knows that Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple, is in ill health. This is a shame for several reasons: He is a human being, and has loved ones worried about him; Apple makes fantastic products, and Jobs has been central to that; He and Apple’s board have become a textbook example of how […]

Another week, another report that compliance departments are going to feel the squeeze in 2009. This latest dollop of painful news comes from the Health Care Compliance Association and the Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics, who published their 11-page survey of compliance officers last week. Among the more unpleasant findings: 85 percent of respondents […]

Foolish me—I’ve always thought the phrase “fraud risk in emerging markets” referred to some two-bit shyster in a foreign land, rushing out from his flimsy storefront operation to seduce a clueless U.S. business partner. Little did I know that the phrase also includes Satyam, the (supposedly) $2.6 billion IT services business that had been a […]

Compliance Week and Integrity Interactive will be hosting an editorial roundtable later this month to talk about supply chain compliance issues. Executives at public companies who oversee this sort of thing—and anyone doubting the importance of the subject, think about milk imported from China or Boeing’s Dreamliner jet delayed because of bad rivets—should contact us […]