The Jeffrey Epstein scandal serves up a cautionary lesson for those who work for companies that put profits over ethics.
Ethics & Culture
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Chief compliance officer liability and the opioid epidemic
In a period of three months, two chief compliance officers have been charged for their individual roles in the opioid epidemic—a clear indication the Department of Justice continues to expand the scope of prosecutions to those who fail in their compliance responsibilities.
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Top Minds in Compliance podcast: Joseph Agins
Joseph Agins, institutional compliance officer at Sam Houston State University, explains how the “Varsity Blues” college admissions scandal provided a value proposition for enhancements to compliance at higher education institutions.
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Top Minds in Compliance podcast: Cécilia Fellouse-Guenkel
Cécilia Fellouse-Guenkel, executive secretary at Le Cercle de la Compliance in Paris, discusses with columnist Tom Fox how compliance is viewed in France and touches on the country’s new anti-corruption law, Sapin II.
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Why CEOs today must be change leaders for social issues
The Wayfair walkout represents just the latest high-profile example of how social and policy issues continue to spill into the corporate ethics and compliance realm.
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Top Minds in Compliance podcast: Doug Walter
Doug Walter, chief compliance officer at Phillips 66, explains to columnist Tom Fox how the energy company’s new headquarters has been a valuable tool for employee engagement and recruiting.
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KPMG fallout: cheating allegations raise new questions
After new allegations at KPMG of cheating on internal training tests, audit committees now have another area of questioning for their external auditors.
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Three reasons why you should save the date for CW2020
One of the most common pieces of feedback we heard from first-time attendees of the recently completed 14th national Compliance Week conference in Washington D.C. was that they wished they had discovered our three-day GRC-palooza sooner. Editor in Chief Dave Lefort explains why.
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Benchmark report provides holistic look at compliance best practices
A benchmark report published by NAVEX Global provides comprehensive research into the multiple disciplines of an ethics and compliance program.
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Soft skills, strategy set to define CCO of future
Determining the future of compliance and its practitioners is a tall task, one that a panel of experts at CW’s 2019 annual conference analyzed with their respective insights.