Episode 340: DOJ Updates Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
Public-Private Partnerships to Stem Corruption
Episode 339: Four Sanctions Cases Everyone Should Know
Episode 338 -- Deep Dive into the Deere SEC FCPA Case
INTERPOL Red Notices - do they expire?
The Legal Tightrope: Surviving Parallel Investigations
Navigating Government Contracts: Diana Shaw on Oversight and Whistleblower Protections
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 45 - The Grit, Grace and Gift of Second Chances
Wicked Coin: The "Fat Leonard" Scandal
Should you try to remove an INTERPOL Red Notice yourself?
Episode 335 -- The New DOJ Whistleblower Program
Navigating Civil Standing Requirements for Defense Success — RICO Report Podcast
INTERPOL Red Notices and Immigration. Can You Obtain Immigration Relief in the U.S. Even with a Red Notice?
Why Time Matters: Partners Lindsay Gerdes and Michael J. Bronson on Swift Action in Government Investigations
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 43 - New Horizons: Impact of Recent Appellate Circuit Rulings on White-Collar Criminal Defense Law
INTERPOL and Politically Motivated Red Notices - What We Can Learn from INTERPOL’s Annual Reports.
Episode 333 -- The Boeing Proposed Plea Agreement
The Presumption of Innocence Podcast: Episode 41 - The Dynamics of Decision-Making: Psychology and the Criminal Justice System
Episode 330 – Halyna Senyk on Anti-Corruption Progress in Ukraine
What to do when finding that you are the subject of a RedNotice?
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Last month, I wrote a blog post on the tone at the top, exemplified in Star Trek’s Original Series episode, Devil in the Dark. Based on the response, some passionate Star Trek fans are out there. I decided to write a series...more
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One of the great things about having a podcast network is that I get to not only explore topics that I love but I get to tie them into compliance. Perhaps the best example is my award-winning series, Trekking Through...more
It is perhaps fitting that we are coming up on the one-year anniversary of the Business Roundtable’s Restatement of Corporate Purposes, which was signed by 181 corporate leaders and widely-praised for its expansion of...more
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We all know that economic incentives are critical to promoting performance. Going back to the days of Adam Smith, the U.S. economic growth is the result of a basic motivation – hard work can result in significant...more
Chief compliance officers are heroes. They labor every day to advance a company’s ethics and compliance program without much recognition, with few resources, and with well-known gaps in their programs....more
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The Houston Astros sign-stealing scandal is only going to get worse and worse. In addition to the report by Wall Street Journal (WSJ) of the “Dark Arts” program by the Astros front office to steal signs in a program called...more
Today, I conclude the topic of judgment for compliance professionals. I recently read a Harvard Business Review (HBR) article on the topic by Sir Andrew Likierman, entitled “The Elements of Good Judgment: How to Improve Your...more
I am nearing the end of a multi-part exploration of the Major League Baseball (MLB) investigation into allegations that the Houston Astros engaged in a multi-year scheme to steal signs and signals from opposing teams. ...more
I am in the midst of a multipart exploration of the Major League Baseball (MLB) investigation into allegations that the Houston Astros engaged in a multi-year scheme to steal signs and signals from opposing teams. MLB issued...more
As a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) one of the most powerful tools you have is persuasion. Jenny O’Brien, CCO at UnitedHealthcare, has talked about the techniques that a CCO can use to influence decision making in a company...more
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Many compliance professionals in the corporate world work long and it is hard to rise to the senior management level in their organizations. It takes SME, hard work and sometime propitious good fortune to get to the C-Suite...more
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I recently had the chance to visit with Valerie Charles, the Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at GAN Integrity, Inc. (GAN Integrity) about a subject that is fastly becoming one of the more topical conversations in the compliance...more
Over the past few blog posts, I have been exploring a recent article in Harvard Business Review (HBR) by Gary P. Pisano, entitled “The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures”....more
Over the past few blog posts, I have been exploring a recent article in Harvard Business Review by Gary P. Pisano, entitled “The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures”. Pisano says the conventional wisdom is innovative...more
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