Attendees at the annual CFO Summit at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Nov. 19 heard from federal regulators promising no end to their fraud crackdown of recent years, as well as from other corporate executives offering their ideas on how to maintain ethical operations amid difficult economic circumstances.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...