Plenty of corporations talk about the need to better understand overseas markets and the different ethical standards they have. Well, $6.3 billion Starwood Hotels takes that goal seriously: every other year, it relocates its senior leadership team to a foreign market for one month. In 2011 the company went to China, and this month it has been in Dubai.

In our latest podcast we tracked down General Counsel Ken Siegel—at Starwood's temporary HQ in Dubai, of course—to ask what ethics and compliance lessons he learns while on the road.

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