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Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Organizational Integrity Shorts: Good Plans that go Awry or why we Conflate Bad Outcomes with Bad Decisions

The research is clear. A good decision with a bad outcome is likely to be viewed – by others and by the decision-makers themselves – as a bad decision in hindsight. Equally so, a bad decision with a good outcome is likely to...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

ECI 2021 Global Business Ethics: Episode 1 – Introduction

I recently had the opportunity to visit with Dr. Pat Harned, President of the Ethics & Compliance Initiative (ECI), about the organization’s 2021 Global Business Ethics Survey (GBES). Since 1994, ECI has conducted this...more

The Volkov Law Group

Ethics and Compliance Controls – Different Means to the Same Objective

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People are getting confused. A company’s ethical culture is not a touchy-feely concept that makes everyone warm and cozy all over. At the same time, compliance controls are not hard and fast rules that are mechanically...more

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist

What is Your Ethical Culture?

The indictments last week of executives from Tanaka and Volkswagen roiled many in the business world and ethics and compliance arena. Coming on the heels of the Wells Fargo scandal, one might wonder how corporations can stop...more

The Volkov Law Group

Infusing Your Compliance Program with Business Ethics

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It is important to remember that companies are required to implement an ethics and compliance program. Ethics should not ever be a segregated issue carved off from a compliance program. They walk hand-in-hand, and reinforce...more

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Making Sure Business Ethics Has a Seat at the Table

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Everyone likes to cite and talk about the list of horrible scandals. Whether it is Enron, WorldCom, Siemens, GM, VW, Wells Fargo, we pick through the details, cite failures and use it as a springboard to a discussion of...more

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