Court tightens whistleblower protections
The 11th Circuit Court has joined a number of other circuits in restricting the application of SOX whistleblower protections...
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Conferences: a timesavers' guide to the SCCE's annual event
Hundreds of compliance and ethics officers will be descending on Chicago on September 12-15 for the Society of Corporate...
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Moving toward responsibility
It used to be that turning a profit and increasing share price were the only things a company had to worry about. Those days are...
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Corporate responsibility is power
Charles Handy, co-founder of the London Business School and a respected social philosopher, uses an analogy about corporations and...
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Compliance, capitalism & Deming
Capitalism is, in part, a system, approach or game we play in the US to reward those who develop the best product, service or...
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Walking into a minefield
It was the stuff of a general counsel’s nightmares. An employee was making unsubstantiated, serious allegations about company...
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What's a poor secretary to do?
To borrow a phrase from the Bard of Avon, ‘Now is the winter of our discontent.’ That phrase was uttered at the very beginning of...
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Auditors without borders
The Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) born out of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is set to depend more on non-US auditing...
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A measure of success
Would you measure your sales effectiveness by looking at whether or not you had a sales force in place and whether or not they...
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Analysis paralysis
Early in my career, I was working at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. I was being trained in to a new department by a...
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