All Ethics & Culture articles – Page 21

  • CW2022 John Carreyrou
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    Carreyrou lauds whistleblowers’ roles in helping expose Theranos fraud

    2022-05-19T17:44:00Z

    John Carreyrou, whose reporting exposed blood-testing company Theranos as a fraud, discussed the vital role lab director Adam Rosendorff and his other colleagues that came forward played as sources during a fireside chat at Compliance Week’s National Conference.

  • Peter Anderson
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    Carnival CECO Peter Anderson resigns

    2022-05-19T16:49:00Z

    Peter Anderson, Carnival’s first chief ethics and compliance officer and a central figure in leading the cruise line giant through its environmental compliance monitorship, has resigned. Richard Brilliant, Carnival’s chief audit officer, will replace Anderson in the new role of chief risk and compliance officer.

  • CW2022 Matthew Friedman
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    Expert: Combating modern slavery starts with understanding the issue

    2022-05-18T15:13:00Z

    Matthew Friedman, an expert on international human trafficking with more than 30 years of experience, discussed the importance of companies addressing modern slavery in their supply chains as part of a virtual fireside chat on the human factor of ESG at Compliance Week’s National Conference.

  • CW2022 Kenneth Polite
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    DOJ’s Kenneth Polite to CCOs: Tell me your compliance success stories

    2022-05-17T22:56:00Z

    Kenneth Polite Jr., head of the Department of Justice’s Criminal Division and a former chief compliance officer, delivered a dynamic keynote address emphasizing the importance of empowering compliance to avoiding prosecution at Day 2 of Compliance Week’s National Conference.

  • CW2022 Caren Kenney
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    ‘Start with yourself’: Kenney inspires compliance officers to focus on wellbeing in CW2022 keynote

    2022-05-17T03:30:00Z

    Caren Kenney, CEO and founder of Evolve Leadership, stressed to attendees the importance of taking care of themselves as much as looking after their businesses as part of her opening keynote at Compliance Week’s 2022 National Conference in Washington, D.C.

  • CW2022 Think Tank
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    Compliance execs get candid on industry challenges at CW think tank

    2022-05-17T01:20:00Z

    Fifteen high-level compliance executives discussed the challenges and opportunities presented by an ever-changing compliance landscape during a first-ever executive think tank session at Compliance Week’s 2022 National Conference in Washington, D.C.

  • Stack of books
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    From ‘Institutional Self-Regulation’: Role of culture

    2022-05-16T16:00:00Z

    Tamar Frankel, honored for Lifetime Achievement in Compliance at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards, authorized CW to share excerpts from her book “Institutional Self-Regulation.” The following is a passage from the book’s chapter on investigations to prevent violations of the law.

  • Stack of books
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    From ‘Institutional Self-Regulation’: Why compliance?

    2022-05-16T16:00:00Z

    Tamar Frankel, honored for Lifetime Achievement in Compliance at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards, authorized CW to share excerpts from her book “Institutional Self-Regulation.” The following is a passage from the book’s chapter on compliance, governance, and self-regulation.

  • Mary Shirley EIC 2022
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    Q&A: Compliance Mentor of the Year Mary Shirley

    2022-05-16T16:00:00Z

    Mary Shirley, head of culture of integrity and compliance education at Fresenius Medical Care, discusses with Compliance Week what mentorship means to her and who has helped her along the way.

  • Snap EIC 2022
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    ​Commitment to kindness earns Snap honor of Compliance Program of the Year

    2022-05-16T16:00:00Z

    For Snap, kindness has long been a core value, but only last year did the company overhaul its code of conduct to thrust the term to the forefront of its internal communications. Snap was recognized as Compliance Program of the Year at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards.

  • Kelly Maxwell EIC 2022
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    ‘Trusted partner’ Kelly Maxwell of Dana-Farber named CCO of the Year

    2022-05-16T16:00:00Z

    Kelly Maxwell can’t cure cancer, but she and her team do their part to help the rest of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute achieve that mission. For her work, Maxwell was named CCO of the Year at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards.

  • Boon Kim Fam EIC 2022
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    Q&A: Rising Star in Compliance Boon Kim Fam

    2022-05-16T16:00:00Z

    Boon Kim Fam, legal director of compliance, Asia Pacific at clothing company PVH, discusses with Compliance Week how her cultural sensitivity, technical expertise, and sound international outlook have helped her navigate the global compliance field.

  • Stack of books
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    From ‘Institutional Self-Regulation’: Slippery slope of bad habits

    2022-05-16T16:00:00Z

    Tamar Frankel, honored for Lifetime Achievement in Compliance at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards, authorized CW to share excerpts from her book “Institutional Self-Regulation.” The following is a passage from the book’s chapter on institutional subversive culture, ethics, power, and behavior.

  • Tamar Frankel EIC 2022
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    Conviction, moral fortitude define Lifetime Achievement winner Tamar Frankel

    2022-05-16T16:00:00Z

    Tamar Frankel’s 50-year career as a law professor at Boston University more than satisfies her being honored for Lifetime Achievement at the 2022 Excellence in Compliance Awards. Yet, to limit the scope of Frankel’s accomplishments to her academic career would be a massive oversight.

  • FedEx containers
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    FedEx’s social mission: Diversity drives better business

    2022-05-13T11:00:00Z

    FedEx’s DEI strides—including becoming a minority-majority employee company in the U.S. for the first time in its history in fiscal year 2018—are not by accident. The company’s long history of hiring a diverse workforce and promoting from within is among the keys to its success.

  • FedEx plane
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    ​Growth vs. green: FedEx’s environmental balancing act

    2022-05-12T11:00:00Z

    When FedEx published its first Global Citizenship Report in 2008, its greenhouse gas emissions were already top of mind. Yet, the company has struggled to strike a balance between achieving year-over-year decreases in total emissions while it has expanded in the last decade-plus.

  • FedEx sorting depot
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    ‘A marathon, not a sprint’: FedEx carbon-neutral pledge tests longtime ESG efforts

    2022-05-11T11:00:00Z

    In March 2021, FedEx announced an audacious goal: to achieve carbon-neutral operations globally by 2040. How did the company develop this pledge, and how will it track its progress and hold itself accountable to intermediate goals?

  • Londoncrop
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    FCA fines, bans director over unauthorized compliance duties

    2022-05-10T16:34:00Z

    Thomas Ward, a former head of compliance at an investment management firm who once worked as a compliance inspector for a U.K. regulator, was fined 416,558 pounds (U.S. $513,000) and banned from working in the financial services sector following a tribunal ruling.

  • FedEx truck
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    Desire for transparency launches FedEx on ESG journey

    2022-05-10T11:00:00Z

    Since 2008, FedEx has produced detailed reports on its ESG initiatives. The company’s chief sustainability officer discusses the decision-making process behind the first report, determining materiality, and more in Part 1 of this four-part special report, published in partnership with the ICA.

  • USAA building
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    A look inside USAA’s ‘catastrophically mismanaged’ compliance culture

    2022-05-06T15:00:00Z

    In exclusive interviews with Compliance Week, former USAA insiders describe a risk and compliance culture in which numerous individuals either were given the axe or quit because the problems were so endemic.